Discussion OpenHardwareMonitor has gotta be the best Performance monitor to have up while playing games.

[JinxTheWorld]

While playing a game this software is awesome. I have it open on my second monitor and has been working flawlessly.

Screenshot of how i have mine at the moment.

I've tried a few others but so far this is best one. Super lightweight, i have it run on startup, it's free, and you can customize it to show what you want. Only thing it's lacking is more detailed info for RAM and SSD/NVME drives. You can even control case fans with it lol.

Link to site: https://openhardwaremonitor.org/downloads/

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

While playing a game this software is awesome. I have it open on my second monitor and has been working flawlessly.

Screenshot of how i have mine at the moment.

I've tried a few others but so far this is best one. Super lightweight, i have it run on startup, it's free, and you can customize it to show what you want. Only thing it's lacking is more detailed info for RAM and SSD/NVME drives. You can even control case fans with it lol.

Link to site: https://openhardwaremonitor.org/downloads/

Interestingly enough, I've just been researching this the last few days. Have always used MSI OSD, but find sometimes it just won't show what I want (even though the option is there). Have been playing with FPS Monitor lately, and it's okay too.

Will give this a try. Looks nice. Cheers

edit: ah, no ingame osd? Still useful though.

 

[JinxTheWorld]

Interestingly enough, I've just been researching this the last few days. Have always used MSI OSD, but find sometimes it just won't show what I want (even though the option is there). Have been playing with FPS Monitor lately, and it's okay too.

Will give this a try. Looks nice. Cheers

edit: ah, no ingame osd? Still useful though.

The no OSD is indeed a downer, but it does serve a good purpose if you can have it on a second monitor while you game on your main screen. You can right click the gadget and enable [always on top] and change the opacity. Not the same as an osd, but at least you can do it XD. What i like the most is you can easily customize it to just show what things you need like temps and usage while playing games. I added extra stuff on the gadget because i thought "why not". Overall it's simplicity is what i like most about it.