How To Check Temperature PC Components With Open Hardware Monitor

How To Check Temperature PC Components With Open Hardware Monitor - Monitor or check the temperature of various components (hardware) computer now is not a difficult thing again and it is important to do regularly. It is very easy to do, what else it can be done using free software Open Hardware Monitor. So to check the temperature of computer components you do not need to pay anything, but free.

As the name suggests, this software is not only free but open source software and includes one full-featured enough monitor. Open Hardware monitor supports a variety of chips used in a variety of computer motherboards today.

Because it is open source, we can also get the source code and can be learned for those who have programming skills. In addition, Open Hardware monitor in addition to running on Windows can also run on Linux using Mono Framework.

Hardware monitor some features include:

• Monitor the temperature range of hardware (hardware) computer in real time(continuous)
• Capable of monitoring components: hard drives (HDD), CPU (including each core),round Fans (cooling fan), temperature of the system (motherboard), VGA (including voltage, GPU temperature and fan rotation).
• Displays a graph or plot various temperature / components in the monitor
• Showing information as a gadget windows (appear on the desktop) 

Comparison with CPU ID Hardware Monitor

So far, the software monitors the temperature of computer components that I use frequently is Hardware Monitor, with a simple display and is able to monitor the various components. In terms of appearance, Open hardware monitor displays information exactly as CPUID Hardware Monitor.

In terms of the ability of the monitor, when I try to monitor on a desktop computer (PC),which monitored the same components, except that Open Hardware Monitor provide more information for the CPU and VGA, namely by adding information such as clock and vga memory and processor load is used (either for CPU / VGA) as well as information fan (fan) used VGA. 

In addition, to control the GPU fan (fan VGA), while the right-click no option to set what percentage of the power / speed to be allocated. From this brief comparison to PC Open Hardware Monitor looks superior.

But when I try on Laptop / Notebook, Open Hardware Monitor than a little behind with Hardware Monitor. Hardware Monitor in addition to be able to monitor the various components such as the PC, there are additional Laptop Battery monitor, while the Open HM is not available (perhaps because his version is still beta, I hope the final version was able to include this feature).

In addition to monitoring, Open Hardware Monitor also provides more features to display the plot / graph (although when I try to not perform), and can display information as a gadget on the Windows desktop with an attractive appearance. Open Hardware Monitor supports Windows XP, Vista, 7, and also both 32bit and 64bit Linux.

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