will polling rate of hardware monitoring software affect performnce while gaming?

[kooiankeen]

will polling rate of hardware monitoring software affect performance while gaming? i m using msi afterburner and HWinfo64

 

[ss202sl]

Anything that the computer does(background processes) will affect gaming. How much depends on exactly what it's doing.

 

[kooiankeen]

Anything that the computer does(background processes) will affect gaming. How much depends on exactly what it's doing.

i mean if i increase the polling rate so that it will get more readings per second, will it affect my cpu or gpu performance?

 

[ss202sl]

Yes