cpu temp checking

[bortas1]

  Hey all, was wondering how you check your cpu temp. and if there is an app where to download best one.

thanks in advance
Bortas

[100Coogn]

Hey all, was wondering how you check your cpu temp. and if there is an app where to download best one.

thanks in advance
Bortas

Here ya go.  Speccy
Light weight and no background processes when you shut it down.

Coogan

[Busher]

http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

[Bizman]

Those above and many more run in Windows and can give you some real time information. However, for just checking how hot you've ran after a lengthy gaming session you can also simply reboot your system and go to the Bios/Uefi settings. Del and F2 are common buttons for that, it depends on your system. Since Windows8 you can also hold Shift while clicking Restart which will take you to the Recovery Environment: Troubleshoot-Advanced-UEFI Firmware settings-Restart. 

[100Coogn]

Those above and many more run in Windows and can give you some real time information. However, for just checking how hot you've ran after a lengthy gaming session you can also simply reboot your system and go to the Bios/Uefi settings. Del and F2 are common buttons for that, it depends on your system. Since Windows8 you can also hold Shift while clicking Restart which will take you to the Recovery Environment: Troubleshoot-Advanced-UEFI Firmware settings-Restart.

Acually I leave speccy run on monitor 2 while I play on monitor 1.
That's real time results.

BTW, in doing this I have yet to see my CPU go above 28% or My GPU go above 70%.  So now I'm curious about this AHIII-DX11.
If it's not working then why even offer it to us.

Coogan

[Bizman]

Coogan, I don't quite understand what you mean. 28 and 70 are quite nice percentages. Are you expecting a 100% resource hog or would you like the numbers to be even smaller?

Your method of running Speccy on a second screen is good practice for real time monitoring. Out of curiosity, have you noticed any major changes in various polygon heavy locations like HQ or a furball over a large airfield on fire?

[Copprhed]

Acually I leave speccy run on monitor 2 while I play on monitor 1.
That's real time results.

BTW, in doing this I have yet to see my CPU go above 28% or My GPU go above 70%.  So now I'm curious about this AHIII-DX11.
If it's not working then why even offer it to us.

Coogan

It works, Coogan, it's what VR uses. I use it every time I fly, and it works perfectly.

[Drano]

I've been using Aida64 with which you can monitor just about anything. My Logitech G15 keyboard has an LCD display on it that I can send the Aida64 data to and keep track of it in real time. I overclock both CPU and GPU so I like to keep track of things.

MSI afterburner will also monitor lots of things and graph them over time. Both time and limits are configurable. It's handy to look back after a session of benchmarking, stress testing or gaming and see what you're system was doing at the time.

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[TequilaChaser]

I've been using Aida64 with which you can monitor just about anything. My Logitech G15 keyboard has an LCD display on it that I can send the Aida64 data to and keep track of it in real time. I overclock both CPU and GPU so I like to keep track of things.

MSI afterburner will also monitor lots of things and graph them over time. Both time and limits are configurable. It's handy to look back after a session of benchmarking, stress testing or gaming and see what you're system was doing at the time.

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Yep, I myself, also use AIDA64 Extreme !  and like Drano, I have it to where it shows up different read outs on my Logitech G510 keyboard LCD Display

[100Coogn]

Coogan, I don't quite understand what you mean. 28 and 70 are quite nice percentages. Are you expecting a 100% resource hog or would you like the numbers to be even smaller?

Your method of running Speccy on a second screen is good practice for real time monitoring. Out of curiosity, have you noticed any major changes in various polygon heavy locations like HQ or a furball over a large airfield on fire?

I agree that those are pretty good percentages.  That's why I was wondering why, when playing DX11 I get those 1-2 second game freezes.
I also have my Task Manager running on the 2nd monitor and have never seen any unusual activity during these freezes. 

Coogan

[Bizman]

I agree that those are pretty good percentages.  That's why I was wondering why, when playing DX11 I get those 1-2 second game freezes.
I also have my Task Manager running on the 2nd monitor and have never seen any unusual activity during these freezes. 

Coogan

Ahh, the freezes, I get them too. As far as I know they're still a mystery. What I think is certain they're not related to hardware bottlenecks, it's something else. A well hidden telemetry app phoning home? Something that Microsoft has forgot to tell to indie coding companies like HTC?

[Drano]

Ahh, the freezes, I get them too. As far as I know they're still a mystery. What I think is certain they're not related to hardware bottlenecks, it's something else. A well hidden telemetry app phoning home? Something that Microsoft has forgot to tell to indie coding companies like HTC?

That's what I'm guessing too. Something somewhere is randomly usurping control momentarily. Danged annoying!

[100Coogn]

That's what I'm guessing too. Something somewhere is randomly usurping control momentarily. Danged annoying!

Especially when it does it when I'm just about to drop on a hanger...   

Coogan

[bortas1]

  thank you all so much 

[Pudgie]

Hi All,

I use MSI Afterburner for some readouts and HWINFO32 to provide other readouts that AB doesn't have. HWINFO32 is also compatible w\ Riva Tuner Statistics Server (the overlay software companion w\ MSI AB that I also use....both authored\written by Unwinder) so readouts from both AB & HWINFO32 can co-exist on the same RTSS overlay (RTSS has been known to work seamlessly w\ Dx11 and Dx9 API's in most cases).

Using all 3 pieces of software running in the background the combined usage is .6% CPU core usage, 12.8Mb mem usage as measured on my box thru TM.

The largest user is HWINFO32 which has a CPU priority setting of "Normal" and is the 1 that is showing all the CPU usage and approx. 70% of the mem usage on my system......which isn't bad at all but is par for the course due to it's CPU priority level ranking.

Both MSI Afterburner and RTSS have a CPU priority setting of "Below Normal" which is what you want w\ a good, well written monitoring software that isn't taking up unnecessary CPU cycles to operate.....both of these show 0% CPU cycle usage (means that these softwares do not need any continuous CPU core processing time to actually run so they co-exist very well w\ other running processes.....AB uses 1.4Mb of mem and RTSS uses 3.2Mb of mem when running so these 2 are very good monitoring softwares to use for continuous CPU\GPU monitoring purposes IMHO.

Hope this helps.