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Which software is best for monitoring the performances of your PC such as CPU, memory and graphics to make sure all is running properly?

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Prime95

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CPU-Z, GPU-Z, HWMonitor, RealTemp and an assortment of benchmarks are what I use to monitor and test things. 

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Prime95

Prime95 is not a good program. It doesn't really monitor anything, and has issues with overvolting some CPUs. Aida64 is a better stability tester, but even then, real world benches will be better than stress tests that put an unrealistic load on the CPU. 

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CPUid HWMonitor - for on a second screen off to the side, and MSI Afterburner for in game.

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MSI Afterburner on my PC is set to monitor, my GPU stats(FPS, clocks, vram usage, fans), ALL my CPU cores, individually, and their load.. frametimes,..system memory, a HUGE list of things.

All at once.. and in games, I select which I want to show in the overlay.

 

 

Thats just for running games..

There is also Aida64/CPU-Z/GPU-Z/HWMonitor and Realtemp as listed above in previous posts.

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Prime95 is not a good program. It doesn't really monitor anything, and has issues with overvolting some CPUs. Aida64 is a better stability tester, but even then, real world benches will be better than stress tests that put an unrealistic load on the CPU. 

True, real world tests are better, but I use stuff like Prime95 for overclocking, just to be safe when its at 100% load.

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True, real world tests are better, but I use stuff like Prime95 for overclocking, just to be safe when its at 100% load.

Even then, P95 is not good. It can cause issues when voltages are set to auto (particularly on Haswell I think). Aida64 is much better. 

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Prime95

there is a difference between monitoring and benchmarking. 

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there is a difference between monitoring and benchmarking. 

Well he did say "to make sure all is running properly"

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there is a difference between monitoring and benchmarking. 

 

and benchmarking and stress testing.

 

HWiNFO is most feature rich monitoring software you'll find.

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thanks guys.  i will definately check them all out

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