Are you looking for small portable tool to monitor your hardware temperature? Have you ever tried overclocking your system to gain a little extra performance without the need to upgrade your system? Pushing hardware beyond what it was designed to be used for is slightly dangerous and sometimes it may lead to spoil your hardware due to an increase in the hardware temperature. Whatever the reason it is always good idea to keep an eye on the temperature levels of your computer’s hardware.
The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer. It supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The monitored values can be displayed in the main window, in a customizable desktop gadget, or in the system tray. The temperature can be viewed in Celsius and Fahrenheit. The program can be configured to start automatically with Windows so you will always have the information you need to hand. Open Hardware Monitor makes use of SMART sensors to keep your informed of the temperature of your processor and hard drives as well as the state of your graphics card. When it comes to your processor, you can also monitor the bus and core speed as well as the overall load level.
There is a similar and advanced tool Speccy covered earlier which also displays your hardware temperature along with other information.
Windows Installation
To install just unpack the zip archive and run OpenHardwareMonitor.exe with Administrator rights. Though it works fine with normal user privileges, but without Administrator rights most hardware sensors are not accessible.
System Requirements
Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP and all flavors of Linux; works on both 32bit and 64bit
Download the free Open Hardware Monitor from here: DOWNLOAD
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