How many Heat monitoring tools or Software programs should I have?

[Leadbelly78]

How many Heat monitoring tools or Software programs should I have?
I mean, I have HWMonitor , RealTemp & the Corsair Link Dashboard. What am I talking about, you guys, galls know them all.
Some people said that you should a huge amount of them. I have Corsair Link Dashboard.
So, anybody have any suggestions?

Sorry if I this questions has been asked before.

 

[geofelt]

My answer has to be... use none.
If you have a heat issue, use a monitor to diagnose and fix.
After that, don't bother.
If it is just a matter of interest, speedfan can have a nice temperature number on the taskbar.

 

[Leadbelly78]

My answer has to be... use none.
If you have a heat issue, use a monitor to diagnose and fix.
After that, don't bother.
If it is just a matter of interest, speedfan can have a nice temperature number on the taskbar.

Ok, thanks for the quick reply.

EDIT: If I plan on OC my CPU, should I do the same, removing the heating software, sorry for the stupid aZZ question.

 

[geofelt]

I like to stress test with OCCT. Many use prime 95, but that test is unrealistic.
OCCT will give you a nice running graph of temperatures et.
By default, it will terminate the test at 85c.

 

[Leadbelly78]

I like to stress test with OCCT. Many use prime 95, but that test is unrealistic.
OCCT will give you a nice running graph of temperatures et.
By default, it will terminate the test at 85c.

I heard that OCCT & Aida64 can really heat up a CPU a lot and quite fast but you suggest OCCT.
I'll check that program out once I get a chance.

 

[geofelt]

Don't know about Aida64.
The objective of a stress test is to run the cpu very hard using the instructions that are common to many applications.
That is a more realistic stress for most of us.
Prime95 uses only a subset of instructions.

 

[Leadbelly78]

Don't know about Aida64.
The objective of a stress test is to run the cpu very hard using the instructions that are common to many applications.
That is a more realistic stress for most of us.
Prime95 uses only a subset of instructions.

Thanks.
I just have one more question. Using a program such as Prime95, Aida64 and the other tested isn't that realistic is??
Honestly, If I used a program like mentioned above.
I just wanted to mention that I'm not OC

 

[Leadbelly78]

Don't know about Aida64.
The objective of a stress test is to run the cpu very hard using the instructions that are common to many applications.
That is a more realistic stress for most of us.
Prime95 uses only a subset of instructions.

Sorry, you just answered my question.
Sorry about that