Rainmeter desktop

[DotoreN]

I recently heard a lot of people being happy about their rainmeter desktop.

Their desktop looked clean & you were able to see cpu/ram usage and all other kind of widgets:

http://rainmeter.net/

 

Before I use this (I want to use this as it looks really sweet), I want to know whether this costs a lot of cpu/resources, ram and if it affects bootup time (I have ssd).

 

If it uses a lot of cpu and ram i'll not use it.

 

Thanks!

 

Dotoren

[ThisIsMyWorkAccount]

I used it for the longest time, recently uninstalled it because I never ended up looking at it. I can't tell a difference in performance.

[theelitegamer]

I tired to use it once but it never worked for me. I think it might add 1 sec to login ready timings? Nothing really serious. It doesn't use alot of RAM and CPU power, to put it in perspective. Microsoft Word uses more power than RainMeter. 

[jayctech]

Rainmeter has a few other uses. I saw a skin (or w/e it's called) that emulated a Mac's dock and taskbar for example.

[Guest]

I've been using it for about 2 years now and I really like it. It is very low on resources, don't worry about that. Unless you get a plugin that is resource hungry...

 

I use it along with HWInfo plugin and basic stuff such as time, hard drive monitoring, cpu, ram, network. Basic stuff that is actually useful sometimes to look at.

[DotoreN]

How accurate are the CPU/GPU temp & ram usage info actually?

[zonetrooper90]

Rainmeter only uses less than 20mb of ram the more you have of course the more usage, but it wont negate performance. Everything is very accurate. Below is an example. everything is at idle.

Do you have links to the stuff you use?

[Guest]

This is my desktop, to give me you an idea of what Rainmeter can do.

 

[DotoreN]

This is my desktop, to give me you an idea of what Rainmeter can do.

 

 

Which skins do you use?

[Guest]

Which skins do you use?

 

It's a mix between Enigma and HUD.Vision. I've also modified many files/objects to allow external plugins such as HWInfo for voltages and MSI Afterburner for GPU readings.