Find %age utilization for internal components?

gradyhawks · 2 Jul 2015 at 15:34

Hi,

I work for an Engineering company and I have been wondering how powerful all our machines are. Turns out mine has 2x E5 2650 Xeons, 16gb DDR3 along side 1Gb Quadro K600.

Now I only really do basic 2D work and I have the feeling that this is far to much power for the work I am doing. Is there any way to find out how much CPU, GPU and Ram my day to day working is using so I can possibly suggest toning down the "work stations" that we buy in ...

Thanks,

Grady

Hotwired · 2 Jul 2015 at 15:37

Not sure if this sounds a bit too simple but...

Open task manager?

Or an equivalent if you're not on windows*

ED209 · 2 Jul 2015 at 15:38

what OS are you running?

you can check the resource monitor in task manager.

right click the clock down the bottom right of your screen and go to task manager. once under there click on the performance tab and then resource monitor down the bottom right. you will get a tab for CPU and memory but it will not do GPU usage so you many need to use something like msi afterburner to find this out

On Holiday · 2 Jul 2015 at 15:43

You say you are only doing basic 2D Work - are any of your colleagues doing the exact same as you are?

lude1962 · 2 Jul 2015 at 15:48

msi afterburner, settings log to file,

Flying_Hellfish · 2 Jul 2015 at 16:05

Open hardware monitor

You can also plug this into afterburner/RivaTuner for even more monitoring and OSD, if compatible.

gradyhawks · 2 Jul 2015 at 16:05

OS is windows, main CAD program is Allplan. Aye, task manager is working for CPU but needed something for GPU as well, so MSI will do nicely.

Archeum said:
You say you are only doing basic 2D Work - are any of your colleagues doing the exact same as you are?

Yeah, pretty much all the same. All the PCs seem very over powered, normally I wouldn't mind but that's money that could be going to things like coffee machines.. Or SSDs, Jesus what I would do for an SSD inside my PC.

We each have our own PC as well, so its not like we need the machines to all do everything. If I had my way, we would transplant the best parts of the PCs and stick them into the one that's doing more of the work (one of the lads does a little 3D work).