Best monitoring programs

[SocomSuade]

Looking to have one single program to monitor my PC.

Right now I'm using HW Monitor and it works. As far as I know it's accurate but it's ugly and I can't overlay it during games.

Was curious if there were better out there.

[Guest Kloaked]

You can use something like EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner for game overlays. They also have out-of-game monitoring but I think it's limited to video card usage, maybe? Never messed around with the settings that much.

[SocomSuade]

You can use something like EVGA Precision or MSI Afterburner for game overlays. They also have out-of-game monitoring but I think it's limited to video card usage, maybe? Never messed around with the settings that much.

I had the Afterburner and while I didn't spend a lot of time with it. It was hard to navigate, was very large and I couldn't find any CPU info on it so I stopped using it.

I also looked at rainmeter online/YouTube and I didn't see any CPU info either. Does that monitor CPU temps?

[Guest Kloaked]

I had the Afterburner and while I didn't spend a lot of time with it, it was hard to navigate, was very large and I couldn't find any CPU info on it so I stopped using it.

 

I wouldn't imagine it being that hard to modify the looks of HWMonitor. I'd do it myself but I'm not that far into programming to feel confident to do something like that.

[pedro69]

I am using OHM (Open Hardware Monitor). It has a desktop gadget which shows all my temps, memory usage etc. and it is free. http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

[Leonard]

I use two at the same time, AIDA64 and EVGA's PrecisionX while gaming on a second monitor,  and just CoreTemp in the taskbar when doing everything else.

[xAcid9]

Not a single program but you can add HWINFO sensors into MSI Afterburner OSD overlay and have like 9 bajillions sensors on your screen while playing games. 

[SocomSuade]

Cool, I'll look at some of those others. I only have 1 monitor right now

[SocomSuade]

Not a single program but you can add HWINFO sensors into MSI Afterburner OSD overlay and have like 9 bajillions sensors on your screen while playing games.

Lol.

I'll try to YouTube some more on the Afterburner to see what else I can do with it. Was hard to navigate for me. Didn't seem like there were that many options.

[xAcid9]

Lol.

I'll try to YouTube some more on the Afterburner to see what else I can do with it. Was hard to navigate for me. Didn't seem like there were that many options.

 

Not that hard really, check No. 1 & 2  https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1986935/+1708

 

For HWINFO, open Setting and go to OSD(RTSS) tab. Enable which sensors you wan to show in MSI Afterburner OSD by ticking Show value in OSD. 

[Wingfan]

i cant click "Show value in OSD"

[Leonard]

Cool, I'll look at some of those others. I only have 1 monitor right now

well you can run CoreTemp for the CPU and EVGA's PrecicsionX in the taskbar together and EVGA's precisionX allows you to monitor almost everything for the GPU.