No Temp Monitoring In Task Manager?

[Nate Tsirlemes]

Just curious, but why hasn't Microsoft added a temp monitoring feature in task manager. It would be convenient don't you think?

[Hiitchy]

A lot of people have said that task manager is actually pretty inaccurate when it comes to measuring anything. If you want to monitor temperatures, you're better off downloading something like Speccy, CPU-Z, GPU-Z, and so on. These programs usually report the temperatures better, and report loads much better than task manager can.

Edited February 9, 2018 by Hiitchy
Italicized "Usually" because I've used programs that reported 105 degrees on CPU.

[Guest Generallee]

The task manager cant even manage to report the load or actual cpu speed properly, can you imagine temperatures

[MaktimS]

Most people wouldn't care I guess. Or many people would post things like "is XX°C tempature normal?" on Microsoft forums and answer to those posts would be a lot of work

[Hiitchy]

Just now, Generallee said:

The task manager cant even manage to report the load or actual cpu speed properly, can you imagine temperatures

Core 0-3: 35 degrees celsius.

Core 4-6: 65 degrees celsius.

Core 7: Not Found.

 

I'd imagine it being something like this. 

[ProjectBox153]

If Task Manager tried to do temperatures, people would be under the impression that 130,549 degrees C is OK.

[Paddi01]

One reason to like winter

[vanished]

Yeah they can't even get clockspeed for the CPU right, I highly doubt they can detect temperatures correctly

 

That said, in my opinion it would be a welcome addition.  They already added some very useful GPU monitoring tools in the last update that frankly can do more than anything else I've found, but I guess that doesn't necessarily mean they will continue that trend.

[GoodBytes]

Actually, Microsoft implement the standard ways to get CPU information. Sadly, due to having no standard, some setup can lead to incorrect information being displayed.

The other software you use does a lot of stuff behind, and works with a lot of insider information from motherboard manufacture, CPU hacking, and so on (same for GPU temps, fan speed and so on) to make it display more accurate information.. but even those aren't actually 100% accurate all the time either. Heck, I even had Intel very own CPU frequency clock rate showing more positive results (higher clock rates) than any software I through at it on my Surface Pro 3. Which one is correct? Intel tool or Aida64 or HWMonitor or CPU-Z?

 

Now that Windows supports and displays that information, newer hardware should return accurate readings, with the assumption that they implement things in such a way that would allow the Task Manager to display the correct information.

[GoodBytes]

5 hours ago, Nate Tsirlemes said:

Just curious, but why hasn't Microsoft added a temp monitoring feature in task manager. It would be convenient don't you think?

Task manager is for TASKS (running programs) as the name suggests. Not temperature and fan speeds.

What you suggest should be, at maximum under the sadly ignored, Resource Monitor introduced back in WIn7 days.