Open Hardware Monitor

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 12:00

Just found this handy little monitoring program, i prefer it to hw monitor already. It can also draw a realtime graph from your sensors and has a built in gadget that you can add any of the sensors to as well

Still beta but i have not had any issues.

Gadget with everything added, you can just add the sensors you want.

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Open-Hardware-Monitor-0.2.1-bèta-download-2623.html

bifday2k · 20 Oct 2010 at 12:57

Nice, especially like the graph and the inbuilt gadget. Im being dense at the moment though can't figure out how to add the sensors to the gadget, but i'll figure it out lol.

Thanks for posting this.

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 12:59

Right click on the sensor in the main program then tick the show in gadget box, you can also show any of the sensors in the tray

alex24 · 20 Oct 2010 at 13:04

Looks a lot like HWMonitor to me.

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 13:07

It's similar but better, i uninstalled hwmonitor as soon as i got this. Loads faster and has more features as well.

bifday2k · 20 Oct 2010 at 13:14

JeffyB said:
Right click on the sensor in the main program then tick the show in gadget box, you can also show any of the sensors in the tray

Haha now i feel stupid, i was right clicking on the main sensor name not the individual parts Doh!

I also agree seems abit smoother then HWMonitor, not like that took a lot of loading or anything, but i like how this is set up, the graph feature, and the gadget especially, now i can use that instead of pc probe, and get far more info.

Thanks again Jeffy

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 13:18

Lol i was right clicking away on the gadget a few times thinking how to add them

Agreed, it's just nicely done, one prog makes it simple.

bifday2k · 20 Oct 2010 at 13:36

Totally, now time to clean up my desktop thats full of monitoring software and what not lol.

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 14:03

Hehe sounds like we both did the same thing, my taskbar is now considderably neater.

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 20:36

bifday2k can your see you hard drive temps? I can't see mine for some reason and read hdd temps is ticked.

bifday2k · 20 Oct 2010 at 21:02

Yeh its reading my Samsung F3 but obviously not my SSD as they have no sensors.

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 22:11

I can get my ssd temps in crystal disk info though, odd. My storage drives don't show, maybe its to do with running in ahci mode. Not a biggy though neither go above 30 degrees anyway.

alex24 · 20 Oct 2010 at 22:11

Doesn't read my HDDs but I think that may be because they're in a RAID array.

setter · 20 Oct 2010 at 22:25

Nice little app, when i used to tun a raid0 array, neither hdtune or hwmonitor could read hdd temps, this shows my drives at 21, 19 and 24 respectively. Nice to see that gpu temps and fan speed are included as well.

JeffyB · 20 Oct 2010 at 22:26

As far as i'm aware you cannot read hard drive temps from disks in a raid array.

bifday2k · 21 Oct 2010 at 17:11

No app seems to be able to read the temp of my Intel SSD, so i took it as they don't have sensors, or atleast sensors that most app's pick up.

JeffyB · 21 Oct 2010 at 18:50

Have you tried crystal disk info?

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Heres my ssd on it, the other drive is a 1.5tb samsung f3 eco.

bifday2k · 21 Oct 2010 at 19:32

Mmm nope guess mine just dos'nt have that sensor i guess, no biggy really though as it won't exactly be getting toasty lol.

SeraphX · 21 Oct 2010 at 19:32

awesomeness, looks great and works with everything on my rig, shows more info about me gfx card than HWmonitor done thanks for linking

ch3333z · 21 Oct 2010 at 21:17

This is brilliant! Have been looking for something like this for ages. Never liked Asus's PC Probe...