Question Have any experience with HWMonitor?

[darkangell88]

Hey,

I started using HWMonitor earlier today.

Voltages, temperatures and fans speed monitoring, I guess.

I just wanted to check it out.



But look at this;

This can’t be right, right?
I thought “CPUTIN” Was the motherboard sensor monitoring the CPU, and other temperatures listed under the “Intel Core i7 3930K” was the sensor on the actual CPU itself.

I run my rig hard sometimes, games at “ultra-graphics” never have an issue with lag, computer restarting or well any issue whatsoever, but ACC to this hardware monitor, the sensor on my motherboard says my CPU has 95°C (203ºF) That can’t be right -_-‘

Anyone else have any experience with this hardware monitor?

Ref: https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.40.exe
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My rig:

Motherboard: ASUS P9X79 LE, Socket-2011​

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit​

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz (12 CPUs)​

Memory: 32768MB RAM​

Graphics Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB​

 

[bniknafs9]

is it used for overclocking / tweaking , or do you use it to monitor while you game ?

 

[darkangell88]

Well I just read that many ppl used this program just for monitoring, so I wanted to try it out. Monitor my rig while gaming, streaming and idle status.

But anyway, these temperature readings can’t be right, or I would have fried the CPU I guess hehe. My computer never shuts down, restarts or complains about high temperatures so.
I just wanted to ask if anyone had any experience with this monitoring program, there are so many different free ones so, maybe some are better/more accurate than others? I dunno.

Even now, for a long time being "idle" My "CPUTIN" readings are like 95°C (203ºF) -_-'

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

It's a poor piece of software.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://www.rh-software.com/
SIV - System Information Viewer

 

[tennis2]

Oh shoot. That's my go to for system monitoring. From the makers of CPUz, another well known stalwart

 

[Karadjgne]

Everything in your pc has an address. It's how info is passed from place to place. Back in the day, yes years ago, when Hwmonitor was written, addressing was much simpler. Nowadays, it's become highly complex. This leads to some confusion, especially since different vendors use different addressing. Ie: Hwmonitor is looking for the cpu temp at 0x00005642. However, on your mobo, that number is the address of the Sata controller chipset, which normally does run at those temps. Or the VRM's. Or the Northbridge (pci express) chipset, or mosfets....

Hwmonitor reads my tmpin4 at 255°C and tmpin6 as -125°C. Both are physically impossible on a mobo.

HWInfo (sensors only!) is more reliable, for Intel systems speccy is decently accurate, coretemp, msi overdrive for amd, SIV, cpu-z.

 

[mdd1963]

Oh shoot. That's my go to for system monitoring. From the makers of CPUz, another well known stalwart

Any piece of software might have a glitch with a particular chipset; to me, unless there was some known issue with an HWMonitor and the X79 chipset (doubtful, as one would suspect the software would have been corrected many years ago,as the X79 board was/is widely used for the last 8 years), it is (in my opinion) more likely a motherboard sensor/sensor path issue (or even a missing sensor that the software has provisions for) itself. If that is the case, other software with identical access to that particular reading (CPUTIN, which does not show on my own Z270 board, obviously) would give the same reading....

HWMonitor is VERY widely used in the tech and hardware reviewer industry, and this would be the first time I've heard of it being referred to as a 'poor piece of software' , quite frankly...; perhaps the correct/latest chipset driver is not installed allowing correct interpretation of all data from assorted MB sensors? (Relying on default detected/installed MS drivers can often give a functioning system, but rarely is the best of everything installed....)

 

[Karadjgne]

Arctic Silver 5 is also widely used, as was the old Corsair CX, as is the Corsair VS, as is the CM hyper212.

Widely used doesn't make it any more than mediocre, Hwmonitor is often wrong, nobody has any clue what any of the tmpin are, could be cpu, VRM's, pcie, mosfets, Sata controller and there's no telling which is which or if they are even accurate. Might have been decent back in the day, but today it's not good at all.