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Is there a good software that I can use for free that will help me monitor my temperatures and all of my hardware components?

Was using adia 64 but now it wants me to pay for it ?

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Open Hardware Monitor?

It's not as graphically inclined as aida 64 but still decently functional.

You can download it here free of charge. 

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AIDA64 is really the best choice in my opinion, but RealTemp (CPU temp) and GPU-Z (GPU temp, clockspeeds, etc.) work fine if you're on an Intel platform.

 

Completely forgot about Open Hardware Monitor. I'd go for that, since it is the most similar in functionality sensor-wise.

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7 minutes ago, ELECTRISK said:

Open Hardware Monitor?

It's not as graphically inclined as aida 64 but still decently functional.

You can download it here free of charge. 

That looks a lot like HWmonitor, except it hasn't seen an update in 3 years.

Afterburner also has hardware monitoring graphs of CPU and GPU. It doesn't need to be used for overclocking, it also works fine as just monitoring...

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Okay this helps out a lot I will give these a shot and see how they work 

I like using Adia 64 

But is it a one-time payment or do you have to continue paying for it?

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3 minutes ago, Vance44 said:

Okay this helps out a lot I will give these a shot and see how they work 

I like using Adia 64 

But is it a one-time payment or do you have to continue paying for it?

you use it free until the trial runs out. then pay for it, or uninstall/reinstall.

 

honestly, HWMonitor is 100% free and is my go-to choice for monitoring.

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2 minutes ago, knightslugger said:

you use it free until the trial runs out. then pay for it, or uninstall/reinstall.

 

honestly, HWMonitor is 100% free and is my go-to choice for monitoring.

Okay I can try it give it a shot she works

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to keep going on another trial version

 

I'm wondering if you pay for it one time or you have to keep paying under subscription If it's only $40-50 bucks for a lifetime That's not too bad I would probably pay for that but I'm not going to pay that every month?

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MSi Afterburner ain't that bad either

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2 hours ago, Vance44 said:

Okay I can try it give it a shot she works

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to keep going on another trial version

 

I'm wondering if you pay for it one time or you have to keep paying under subscription If it's only $40-50 bucks for a lifetime That's not too bad I would probably pay for that but I'm not going to pay that every month?

it's not worth it for the one time system builder, even for metrics. There are better MORE FREE programs. eg, HWMonitor.

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On 4/19/2019 at 1:27 AM, Vance44 said:

Okay I can try it give it a shot she works

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to keep going on another trial version

 

Not going to work like that. You'd need to reinstall windows for another trial. Anything else is piracy and asking advice for that will bring lock to this thread.

 

On 4/19/2019 at 1:27 AM, Vance44 said:

I'm wondering if you pay for it one time or you have to keep paying under subscription If it's only $40-50 bucks for a lifetime That's not too bad I would probably pay for that but I'm not going to pay that every month?

You could look this up yourself from Aida's site. But it's subscription-style. You pay for 12 months of free updates and services. You can use it longer, but no updates etc.

 

My vote goes for HWiNFO64, you can't get more detailed than that.

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4 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

 

Not going to work like that. You'd need to reinstall windows for another trial. Anything else is piracy and asking advice for that will bring lock to this thread.

 

You could look this up yourself from Aida's site. But it's subscription-style. You pay for 12 months of free updates and services. You can use it longer, but no updates etc.

 

My vote goes for HWiNFO64, you can't get more detailed than that.

yea I didn't really want to go out of my way to get free software that's why I was wondering if you had to pay for it every month or you can just play one time lifetime fee... if it wasn't that much I was thinking about just paying for it but not if there is other's out there that are already free 

do you have happen to have a link for that so I can insure i'm going to the right site?

 

thanks … i'll try that! 

 

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53 minutes ago, Vance44 said:

yea I didn't really want to go out of my way to get free software that's why I was wondering if you had to pay for it every month or you can just play one time lifetime fee... if it wasn't that much I was thinking about just paying for it but not if there is other's out there that are already free 

do you have happen to have a link for that so I can insure i'm going to the right site?

 

thanks … i'll try that! 

 

For Aida? https://www.aida64.com/

 

For HWiNFO64 https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

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On 4/18/2019 at 5:09 PM, TetraSky said:

That looks a lot like HWmonitor, except it hasn't seen an update in 3 years.

Afterburner also has hardware monitoring graphs of CPU and GPU. It doesn't need to be used for overclocking, it also works fine as just monitoring...

ok so where do I go to download ??

I clicked on the link you put up but from there I don't know where to go … i'm not finding the download for afterburner 

 

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53 minutes ago, Vance44 said:

ok so where do I go to download ??

I clicked on the link you put up but from there I don't know where to go … i'm not finding the download for afterburner 

 

After burner is at the very bottom of the page. 

Or here's the link :

http://download.msi.com/uti_exe/vga/MSIAfterburnerSetup461Beta2.zip

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On 4/20/2019 at 4:54 PM, Vance44 said:

how about something to stress test? 

 

Depends what you want to stress. For CPU OCCT is good one. It has a thing for GPU too, but I'd use Unigine's software instead.

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On 4/21/2019 at 9:17 AM, LoGiCalDrm said:

Depends what you want to stress. For CPU OCCT is good one. It has a thing for GPU too, but I'd use Unigine's software instead.

being able to stress test both would b e nice but for the most part i just want to test cpu 

 

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