It will give you a bunch of information about your CPU, including the model, speed, and the temperature of each of its cores.Įvery processor is a little different, and having an accurate Tj. Here are a few settings we recommend looking at. If the icon is only appearing in the pop-up tray and you want to see it at all times, just click and drag it onto your taskbar. Generally, your CPU temperatures are going to be the most important temperatures to monitor. But, if you want to see temperatures across your system-motherboard, CPU, graphics card, and hard drives- HWMonitor gives you that and much more. See our note below about AMD temperatures for more info. Feel free to poke around and see temperatures for other components in your system, too.

Monitoring temperatures for AMD processors has long puzzled computer enthusiasts.

Some programs, like HWMonitor, show both. CPU Temperature is more accurate at low levels, but less so at high levels. When your system is idle, it may show impossibly low temperatures like 15 degrees celsiusbut once things heat up a bit, it will show a more accurate-and useful-value. Hopefully, you can get a general estimate of how well your CPU is being cooled.

Monitoring your temperatures is good, and something everyone should check on once in a while. The older and dirtier a computer gets, the harder the fans have to work to keep the temperature down-which means a hot computer and very loud fans.

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