best software to monitor bios voltages?

danlightbulb · 13 Aug 2016 at 14:26

Hi all,

Whats the best software to monitor various bios voltages in real time?

I have tried a few and all fall short in some way.

HWMonitor won't recognise the correct PSU voltages, and is missing some outputs such as VCCIO, VCCSA amongst others.

Gigabyte's SIV tool allows me to set the VCCIO and VCCSA but doesn't display them, so when BIOS in auto mode I cannot see what they are, only set them.

Intel's extreme tuning utility has a few displayed but mixes up the fans, so reports different fan speeds to the gigabyte tool.

So all in all its a pretty poor show. I just want one piece of software that will display everything I want, accurately.

Thanks

Borealis · 13 Aug 2016 at 14:56

You can try hwinfo64, as I've found it to be more reliable than hwmonitor and it definitely does show VCCIO and VCCSA (although they might not be named exactly like that).

No software monitor is 100% reliable at showing the PSU and system voltages. The only truly accurate way is to view them in the BIOS or to use a physical voltage probe - but you can only do that easily with certain boards.

danlightbulb · 13 Aug 2016 at 16:08

Thanks I'll try that one.

The Gigebyte software shows PSU voltages in the correct range - but HWmonitor gets them drastically wrong.

danlightbulb · 13 Aug 2016 at 16:25

Still not got VCCIO, in either the gigabyte one (right) or the HWinfo64 one (left)

Yet in Gigabyte easy tune I can change the setting: