How do I monitor temps? Recommendations please

Solnyshko · 5 Jan 2020 at 21:45

Hi. Just received a new build and am very concerned as the case fans appear to be kaput.

How can I check system temperatures - I feel the urgent need to monitor what's thermally happening before I end up doing damage even at idle! Cant seem to find a way to do so in Windows 10 natively...

Thanks
Sols

wazza300 · 5 Jan 2020 at 22:39

Hwmonitor or aida64

Or the motherboards own monitoring software should tell you

Solnyshko · 5 Jan 2020 at 23:07

But I can only access that info when sitting in BIOS. Is there a way to read that in natively in the windows environment, or do I need to install 3rd party software?

wazza300 · 5 Jan 2020 at 23:10

You need 3rd party software posted above,they should tell you all your system temps,voltages,fan speeds component specs,oc ect

Theres easytune for gigabyte boards and similar types for asus asrock ect

Try hwmonitor

Solnyshko · 5 Jan 2020 at 23:48

Ah apologies. I missed that in your earlier reply

apostolis_kt · 6 Jan 2020 at 16:49

HWInfo and ryzen master I use so far

Danny75 · 7 Jan 2020 at 12:43

HWiNFO64 and Afterburner+Rivatuner (latter for on-screen display while playing/testing).

Solnyshko · 7 Jan 2020 at 14:23

Thank's I'll look into it. And these are good calls for a ASUS Turbo-GTX1080-8G or should I be looking for manufacturer specific software? Specifically for driver updates and what not, or is ference design fine with te 1080? I tried to register the Geforce Experience app that came pre installed but it keeps stalling - I imagine that's the choice app to be using?

mattydoughts · 7 Jan 2020 at 14:24

I use afterburner, use it with a HiS card so it does not have to be MSI.

Jay85 · 7 Jan 2020 at 14:25

I've been using for the past 8 years Core temp for CPU and msi afterburner for gpu temps for desktop and in game on the fly monitoring. For monitoring everything at once without OSD, HWinfo is a good call as mentioned by others.

Danny75 · 7 Jan 2020 at 17:49

Solnyshko said:
Thank's I'll look into it. And these are good calls for a ASUS Turbo-GTX1080-8G or should I be looking for manufacturer specific software? Specifically for driver updates and what not, or is ference design fine with te 1080? I tried to register the Geforce Experience app that came pre installed but it keeps stalling - I imagine that's the choice app to be using?

Experience just provides things like Shadowplay streaming and game auto-optimizations, not monitoring. Afterburner+ Rivatuner is best for Nvidia cards (best not use them with AMD cards or at least some AMD cards). As Mattydoughts said, even though you grab it from the MSI website, it works for all brands of Nvidias including Asus.