Need an ''install free'' way to monitor CPU temperature in real time :/

[MrMongoose]

Greetings everyone!

 

IDK if this should go here but here goes..

 

Lately, my company has started purchasing laptops to replace the ones that are slowly migrating out of warranty (3 years) and people have been complaining that the performances are worst with the newer laptops, regardless of the model the user had previously. Right now everyone applying for a new laptop is getting paired with a Lenovo T14 and from what I've read online they have terrible thermals... Things are usually ''ok'' but with everyone working from home, the most complained about app performing slowly is Microsoft Teams. I've been trying to get the hardware people to realize that the issue is with the thermals forcing the CPU's to run like hot potatoes but I cannot prove my theory...

 

This is what I need: A ''standalone'' software or website that allows me to monitor CPU temperature in real time. Now I know, I know ''why don't you just use Core Temp or something of the like? problem is, ANY software added has to go through a rigorous certification period and I need an answer asap.. Does anyone know of any way to monitor CPU temperature without requiring an installed software?

 

thanks in advance everybody!

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

Hwinfo has a portable version. IIRC coretemp does, too.

[Fasauceome]

11 minutes ago, MrMongoose said:

people have been complaining that the performances are worst with the newer laptops, regardless of the model the user had previously

Have the specs also changed? Going from a modest i5 to a strongly power restricted i7 will look good on paper but gimp performance.

[tkitch]

7 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Have the specs also changed? Going from a modest i5 to a strongly power restricted i7 will look good on paper but gimp performance.

Even a power gimped i7 on a modern laptop should still trump a 3 year old laptop's performance.  

 

Unless they went from i7's to i5's or something

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, tkitch said:

Even a power gimped i7 on a modern laptop should still trump a 3 year old laptop's performance.  

 

Unless they went from i7's to i5's or something

Could be. But also a 3 year old i5 is something like an i5-8400H which could return some quite respectable performance. The 1165G7 has a TDP of 28 while the 8400 has a TDP of 45, and then the AIB design of a given laptop could swing performance even more strongly one way or the other, especially if we're comparing an Ultrabook with a more chonky boi.

[MrMongoose]

Alright! sorry about the long delays in updates.

 

A few key elements I forgot. Every laptop used at my work is provided by Lenovo, when I started a little over a year ago, I was provided with a T490 paired with a single stick of 8 GB running at 2400 and an i5-8265U. (base clock 1.6 - turbos too 3.9 although I never saw mine crack over 3.7)

 

What I've noticed is basically every laptop here seems to be configured with a ''low power'' variant of an i5. And the ''killer app'' that everyone seems to agree sucks up all the power is TEAMS, especially with in camera calls.

 

What originally drew me to these laptops overheating is the fact that I noticed early on that my laptop's fans would ramp up fast and my CPU would never go above 2ghz while a teams meeting was on, causing all sorts of stutter and slowness.. I took it upon myself to open the laptop, replace the thermal compound and realized the GPU didnt have any. The issues on my side mostly went away afterwards.

 

The new laptop being shipped comes with an i5-10210U which is basically the same as the 8th gen. 4 cores 8 threads. The ram is doubled at 16 GB but a single, soldered dim @ 2666. During a teams meeting where my colleague was complaining his laptop was behaving slowly, I had him share his screen and to my astonishment.. his CPU was averaging 6 too 800 mhz and other then being supremely overheating I cannot understand why it would run so slowly.

 

Lastly, I've tried both Hwinfo and IIRC but in both cases was prompted with admin credentials..

 

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

[Gortyy]

CORE TEMP .