What's a good CPU Monitoring Utility?

I really prefer CPUID HWMonitor. It's a lot simplet, cleaner, and seems to be slightly more accurate. That's just my opinion, though, and you can download it here:

ftp://ftp.cpuid.com/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.16-setup.exe

http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/1.16-setup.exe

HWMonitor is really good, but I like Real Temp as well. Real Temp seems to have slightly different (possibly more accurate) temps than HW but it also shows realtime CPU speed.

I just pulled up task manager and HWMonitor and they only show I have two cores running. Do you know why that is?

Bingo! That did it, I went were you told me and it was checked, so I unchecked it restarted my computer and now I see all four in both windows task manager and HW Monitor. I really appreciate your help! It was something so simple but yet so difficult. You just have to know what to do.

Thanks!

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@someguynamedmatt

Thanks for the link, I'll be using the program more. I really just wanted a confirming source to speedfan and didn't know what program was good.

@Wolfram23

I'll have to try that one, especially if I decide to do any overclocking.

Glad that worked for you. I'm not sure what causes it but it's amazing, to me anyway, how often people run into that.

I like RealTemp too. It's a little cleaner when all you want is temp info. Although personally the first time I check temps in a while or on a new system I run two programs to watch for consistency. Which it sounds like is what you're doing, comparing SpeedFan to HWMonitor. Any wide variation between two programs, and I grab a third.

RealTemp link: http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

I will get the RealTemp then. Mainly because, like you said, HWMonitor has a lot of info when you just want to have the temp.

Side note. I have turned on Prim95 and my processor is only getting to 40C. It has been about 35 min of testing. I only have a Arctic Freezer 64 Pro on it! And a Antec 900 case with Arctic Silver 5, I suppose that might help a little.

Update: The RealTemp is only a Intel monitoring program, I just found that out.

Thanks for passing that on. I wasn't aware.