Open Hardware Monitor a free replacement for CPUID's Hardware Monitor Pro

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       The Open Hardware Monitor is a free replacement for Hardware Monitor Pro and it is a open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer just like CPUID's Hardware Monitor Pro.
  


      The Open Hardware Monitor supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The monitored values can be displayed in the main window, in a customizable desktop gadget, or in the system tray. The free Open Hardware Monitor software runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 and any x86 based Linux operating systems without installation.

     The amount of information shown by the program will vary depending on your hardware.
The program is portable, so download it and extract the zip file to the folder of your choice, then run the OpenHardwareMonitor.exe. Administrator rights are needed for all the sensor information to be available, so if you need to, right click the OpenHardwareMonitor.exe, and select ‘Run as Administrator’.

     Apart from the large amount of information Open Hardware Monitor gives you, it does have a few other useful features like a nice graph to measure values over time, which can be enabled by going to the ‘View‘ menu and clicking on ‘Show Plot‘.


 
      Another cool feature is a handy desktop gadget which can use any value from the main window by right clicking on the value and selecting ‘Show in Gadget’. To enable the gadget, go to the ‘View‘ menu and click on ‘Show Gadget‘.


The free Open Hardware Monitor software runs on Microsoft Windows with the .NET Framework version 2.0 and above. On Linux systems the Open Hardware Monitor requires Mono with WinForms.

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