HWMonitor is freeware that can be used to monitor hardware and read laptop and PC health systems, including voltage, fan speed, and temperature. Hwmonitor is a small software that helps monitor the temperature on our computers/laptops. to see if it's hot or not. Such as monitoring CPU temperature, AUX, System and hard disk temperature.
In addition, it can also monitor the voltage that flows through the PC hardware. Such as monitoring CPU VCORE voltage, and ATX voltage. It can also be used to monitor fan speed.
Because it is open source, we can also get the source code and it can be studied and developed for those who have programming skills. In addition, the Open Hardware monitor besides running on Windows can also be run on Linux with support from the Mono Framework.
This software can read the most common sensor chips, such as the ITE® IT87 series, Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, this software can also read the main sensors on modern CPUs, which read the temperature of the hard disk via S.M.A.R.T and the temperature of the GPU video card.
The software also supports reading power supplies on abit® uGuru and Gigabyte® ODIN™.
The features provided in this version are not much different from the previous version.
In addition, for Control GPU fan (VGA fan), when right-clicked there is an option to set what percentage of power and speed will be allocated. From this brief comparison for PCs, it seems that Open Hardware Monitor is superior.
In addition to monitoring, Open Hardware Monitor also provides more features by displaying plots/graphs (although when I tried it hasn't appeared), and can display information as a windows gadget on the desktop with a very attractive appearance.
CPUID HWMonitor Free is the latest version which has a special advantage that you can monitor the state of another CPU hardware connected to your network, so if you have several computers connected to one network to your computer, then you can easily monitor all hardware conditions. from each of these computers from the main computer.
Download the Latest HWMonitor
- License: Freeware
- Developer: CPUID
- Operating System: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11
