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AbpMon
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3/2k8/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.1Mb
Freeware
AbpMon can "Free RAM" on demand, Reboot, Restart, Shutdown System. It graphically shows in real time most popular system wide information about Windows in compact resizable Bar window and SysTray Icon. This information includes CPU usage, Virtual Memory, Swap File, Memory, data rates for File, Network Server, network Client, DialUp and VPN Input and Output operations.

Acronis Drive Monitor
OS: WinXP/2k3/2k8/7/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
3/5 - 17Mb
Freeware
The utility monitors your hard drive health using the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.). It can help predict when a hard drive is about to fail, giving you the chance to backup your data before disaster strikes. When Acronis Drive Monitor identifies a problem, it generates an email or onscreen alert describing the specific finding. It offers a simple and easy to understand explanation of the alert guiding you to the steps you need to take to remedy the issue. A color coded summary provides an overview of the disk’s health at a glance and weekly reports summarize the findings.

Active@ Hard Disk Monitor
OS: Win2k/XP/2k3/2k8/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 10Mb
Freeware + Shareware $29.99
Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.). Disk Monitor also displays hard disk information, current S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the overall status of the hard disk's health. Advanced disk scan allows you to detect bad sectors on a disk surface. The software can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the system in the background. An icon in the System Tray can display the temperature for selected HDDs.

Advanced HostMonitor  Recommended Software
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 5.1Mb
Shareware $99
HostMonitor is a multifunctional network monitor. You can create a list of jobs and tests in advance on a "set and forget" basis. Among the many checks it can do, it can monitor any TCP service, ping a host, retrieve an URL, check the available disk space, check integrity of your files and web site, test your SQL servers, check SMTP/POP/IMAP/DNS/LDAP servers, test Windows NT services, monitor CPU Usage, and much more.

Alchemy Eye
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/VIsta  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 4.4Mb
Shareware $299
Alchemy Eye is a network monitoring tool that continuously monitors network server availability and performance. If a server goes down, Alchemy Eye automatically notifies the network administrator and writes a detailed log file. On any type of server, Alchemy Eye monitors server functions using a variety of protocols and services.

AMD64 CPU Assistant
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/2003/VIsta  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 620Kb
Freeware
AMD64 CPU Assistant is designed to monitor the temperature of a AMD64 CPU core using the processor's on-die thermal sensor. Besides, the utility is able to monitor the CPU and memory usage, show CPU information, control memory timings and system processes. AMD64 CPU Assistant Lite includes monitoring functionality only.

Ativa Net Meter
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 966Kb
Shareware $14.95
Ativa Net Meter monitors net usage and displays a real-time graph indicating the performance of your network connection. It collects information from many sources including: Dialup, DSL, LAN, Cable and ISDN connections. Ativa can notify you of poor connections, peak performance and other events you specify. It can also check your email and regularly ping a host to prevent disconnection.

Bionic CPU Peeker
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 319Kb
Freeware
This program monitors and displays your computer's CPU Usage, Physical Memory Usage, and Page File Usage as well. It's able to notify you when you are low on your ressources. It allows to defragment you random access memory for a more efficient use of your system. It also has a built-in Process Viewer that enables you to view info on current running processes and their related modules and terminate them.

ClearInfo
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 664Kb
Freeware
ClearInfo is a program used to monitor such things as CPU usage, virtual memory usage, physical memory usage, uptime, it will also show your currently playing song, song scrolling, MBM Temps, CPU name, and speed it is currently running at. You can also enable/disable the Winamp controls, change the font, color, and size.

Coretemeter
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 200Kb
Freeware
Coretemeter is a small and handy tool designed to graph the core temperature of AMD64 processors using the on-die CPU thermal sensor or Super I/O readings. The utility monitors each core independently in dual-core systems. You can set the reading rate, as well as the task priority. There's also an option to save snapshot of each complete time scene.

CoreTemp
OS: Win2k/XP/2k3/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 148Kb
Download 64-bit version for Windows Vista/XP/2003 x64
Freeware
Core Temp is a compact program to monitor CPU temperature. It lets you monitor Intel's Core, Core 2,Core i5, Core i7, AMD K8 and K10 chips' die temperature. The temperature readings are very accurate as the data is collected from a Digital Thermal Sensor (or DTS) which is located in each individual processing core, near the hottest part. What's more, the program shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system. Core Temp also has a logging feature that allows to easily record CPU temperature over any period of time, then the data can be easily transfered into an Excel datasheet for easy graphing.

CPUCooL 8.1
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot  
Rating:
5/5 - 4Mb
Shareware $13
CPUCool displays temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, disk read/write speeds, and SDRAM's contents, CPU usage, and more. It also can cool the CPU, change the FSB frequency, optimize RAM, monitor S.M.A.R.T. values, etc. UNICODE version supports Russian and Chinese languages.

CPU Speed
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
3/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
This program measures and displays the speed of your CPU (in MHz) in a real time.

CPUTempWatch
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 316Kb
Freeware
CPUTempWatch is a small tool to monitor CPU temperature. It graphs the temeparture of each core, displays current, maximum and minimum temperatures. Besides, it creates a log file and allows to specify a program to launch if the temperature exceeds a given threshold. Currently, CPUTempWatch supports the following processors: Intel Core, Core 2, Core i7 and Atom.

CrystalDiskInfo
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/7/8  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 2.7Mb
Freeware
CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature.

Drive Health
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 466Kb
Shareware $24.95
This tool allows you to predict possible HDD failure and prevent losing the critical data. To estimate hard disk life the program uses S.M.A.R.T. technology. By implementing this technology Drive Health provides access to hard disk drives reliability monitoring and keeps you informed about any potentially dangerous degradations of performance or reliability of your HDDs. It also gives some information about the drive.

DriveSitter
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 1.4Mb
Shareware $24.95
DriveSitter is a full-featured HDD analyzation, health diagnostic and background monitoring tool. It processes up to 30 health related attributes per HDD as well as the overall health status of the HDD and the HDD temperature simultaneously. You will be alerted of any unhealthy condition by various notification methods including emails, network messages and execution of user-defined files. Furthermore, DriveSitter collects a stock of past health attributes and estimates the remaining lifetime of each health related attribute (T.E.C. dates). The stock of past health attributes can be visualized in time series graphs or analyzed by the means of descriptive statistics. Moreover, DriveSitter displays up to 130 advanced HDD details, provides a polished graphical user interface, an extensive program help and much more!

Drive Temperature
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 92Kb
Freeware
This little program will show current temperature of your hard drive. Besides, it monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and shows information on your hard drives.

DU Meter 7  Recommended Software
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7/8  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 4Mb
Freeware
DU Meter is a powerful and user-friendly tool that will let you use your Internet connection more efficiently. It works with dial-Up, ISDN, cable modem, Ethernet cards, ADSL and T1. It can display information graphically, numerically or both. It has a great stopwatch that accurately times your downloads and reports the average transfer rates; fully customizable daily, weekly and monthly totals display, with ability to export data to Excel, Word, HTML, text and other formats. DU Meter is available in German, Spanish, French and Russian languages.

Filemon 7.04
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3 Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 280Kb
Freeware
Filemon monitors and displays file system activity on a system in real-time. Its advanced capabilities make it a powerful tool for exploring the way Windows works, seeing how applications use the files and DLLs, or tracking down problems in system or application file configurations. Filemon's timestamping feature will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, and its status column tells you the outcome. It begins monitoring when you start it, and its output window can be saved to a file for off-line viewing.

FreeMeter
OS: Win7/8/10  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 2.8Mb
Freeware
FreeMeter monitors disk space usage, CPU usage, memory usage, network traffic, and disk transfer rates. It can also monitor local drives and network volumes. FreeMeter fully supports UNC volume names. It consists of a desktop window and one or more system tray icons.

Hard Disk Sentinel
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2003/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 12Mb
Download Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS - 31Kb
Shareware $18
Hard Disk Sentinel is a hard disk monitoring application, which is able to find possible hard disk problems, performance degradations and failures. It can alert if a problem detected or if temperature is too high. Hard Disk Sentinel can monitor hard disk status, including temperature and S.M.A.R.T. values for each hard disk. It also measures the hard disk transfer speed in real time, which can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible hard disk failures, performance degradations. The program supports English, Hungarian, French, Romanian, Russian and German languages.
Hard Disk Sentinel for DOS allows to view the temperature and health information for IDE and S-ATA hard disks connected to motherboard or external controller cards. The DOS edition is free.

Hard Drive Inspector
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 2.1Kb
Shareware $29.95
Hard Drive Inspector is a powerful, convenient and effective program based on the S.M.A.R.T. technology, which allows controlling the state of your hard disk drives. With the help of the S.M.A.R.T. System, Hard Drive Inspector allows you to predict a possible failure of the HDD before this occurs. Hard Drive Inspector has a flexible option system, which allows you to customize the functionality of this utility, according to your needs. Hard Drive Inspector has an easy-to-use, nice-looking interface. It also offers many useful features, which make the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring process full-scale and easy.

HDD Health
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 960Kb
Freeware
HDD Health is a full-featured failure-prediction agent for machines using Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000 and XP. It monitors hard disks and alerts you to impending failure. The program uses Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) and can predict failures on your hard drives. A host of alerting features include email, local pop-up messages, net messages, and event logging, while using no system resources.

HDD Observer
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 5.6Mb
Shareware $24.95
HDD Observer is a powerful monitoring and repairing tool for your hard drives. HDD Observer can detect a lot of hard drives troubles and give a solution for them. Main features include: monitor hard drives health, performance and temperature; monitor hard drives activity and show it in a system tray icon; check file system fragmentation and registry fragmentation; defragment file system and registry; automatically find and remove un-needed files and registry values, etc.

HDD Temperature Enterprise
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 5Mb
Shareware $199
HDD Temperature Enterprise Edition is a utility that checks and monitors the temperature of all your networked hard drives to help prevent data loss. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern hard disks, this program analyzes and show its current temperature. You can setup maximum value of drive temperature and in case of overheating HDD Temperature can display warning message. System administrators can setup e-mail address or computer name for e-mail and network messages about overheating.

HDD Temperature
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 2Mb
Shareware € 12
HDD Temperature is a very small and very simple program. It runs in background and show in the system tray current temperature of your hard drives. The program supports integration with Motherboard Monitor.
You can also download HDD Temperature SCSI edition.

HDD Thermometer
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 262Kb
Freeware
HDD Thermometer is a hard disk temperature monitoring tool that has all the features needed to prevent overheating and possible data loss. It has an ability to perform any of the following actions when the temperature exceeds Warning or Critical levels: Show Notification, Play Sound, Execute Application, Shutdown or Hibernate. HDD Thermometer sits in the system tray showing current temperature, logs temperature changes and lets you set individual settings for each hard disk.

HMonitor 4.5.4.2  Recommended Software
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/Vista/7/8/10  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 2.1Mb
Shareware 24.95 Euro
This program monitors and displays hardware parameters collected by the several sensor chips, installed on certain motherboards. The program can monitor voltages, temperatures of CPU and motherboard and cooler fans RPMs. Furthermore, HMonitor features HDD S.M.A.R.T. and nVidia/Ati GPU hardware monitoring. Besides, it displays some system information and has a software CPU cooling function.

HWMonitor
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7/8  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.1Mb
Freeware

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors: voltages, temperatures, fan speeds. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well as hard drive temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature. Special hardware monitors such as abit uGuru and Gigabyte ODIN power supplies series are supported too.

HWMonitor Pro
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7/8  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.2Mb
Shareware € 19.95

HWMonitor Pro is an extended version of HWMonitor. In comparison to its classic counterpart, HWMonitor Pro adds the following features: Remote Monitoring (watch the sensors of one or several distant PCs through a simple TCP/IP connection), Graph Generator (save monitoring data and generate logging graphs as bitmap files), improved interface, etc.

IDE/ATAPI Bus Utilization Monitor
OS: Win2000/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.1Mb
Freeware
IDE/ATAPI Bus Utilization Monitor displays the overall bus utilization that is being used on your Primary and Secondary IDE channels.

MBProbe
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
3/5 - 68Kb
Freeware
MBProbe is a program which monitors voltages, temperatures and fan speeds using hardware monitoring chips available on many modern motherboards. Supports a wide range of monitoring chips.

MemMAX
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 475Kb
Freeware
MemMAX is a memory optimizer & statistics utility. Features include fast & efficient memory optimization, command-line execution mode, VCache settings and real time memory usage statistics.

MEMORyAL  Recommended Software
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 589Kb
Freeware
This little program shows total amount of RAM and disk space, the amount of free RAM and disk space, swap-file size. You can also free the desired amount of memory.

MemInfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 548Kb
Freeware
MemInfo shows you information about your current resources and memory. As further feature MemInfo can very fast defragment your RAM.

Memory and CPU Observer
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 358Kb
Freeware
Memory and CPU Observer monitors your CPU activity, memory and pagefile, download/upload speeds and free space on your hard drives. The program is skinnable.

Memory Optimizer
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 467Kb
Shareware $29.95
Memory Optimizer is a memory manager. It can proactively monitor your system memory and resources, freeing up RAM and preventing crashes. Memory Optimizer also allows you to view all running applications, even hidden ones, and how much RAM they use. You can set the CPU priority for these or terminate them.

MemStat XP
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 90Kb
Freeware
MemStat XP is utility that monitors physical memory in Windows systems. With this little tool you can track usage of memory in your system and easy free it if needed. It has also some unique features like memory benchmark, memory status logging or customizable tray icon.

MemWatcher
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 1.6Mb
Shareware $19.95
MemWatcher monitors your computer's CPU, memory and resource usage, automatically frees memory no longer used by Windows, alerts you to specific memory conditions and lets you stress test your apps by simulating low memory situations.

MKN PerformanceMonitor
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 735Kb
Freeware
MKN PerformanceMonitor shows detailed information about system, I/O, and processor performance. It creates performance graphs for each installed processor, and the system I/O history. MKN PerformanceMonitor shows information about each processor core in the system, including the CPU usage, the KERNEL mode time, hardware processor usage, and the processor's current clock frequency. It also shows information about the system performance, including the total CPU usage, the system CPU usage, context switches, system calls, and pagefaults. In addition, it displays information about the I/O read, write, and other operations and the amount of data transferred.

Motherboard Monitor 5.3.7.0
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 1.5Mb
Freeware
Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is one of the most popular tools that will display information from the sensor chip on your motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of Chipsets & Sensor Chip combinations.

NetGong
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 1.5Mb
Shareware $39.95
NetGong is an intuitive network monitoring tool. Designed for both beginners and power users, NetGong provides you with very flexible monitoring options allowing you to monitor critical aspects of your network resources. Whether you have a single machine to monitor or hundreds of servers, routers, bridges, and other devices around the world, NetGong will keep you informed of connectivity and device availability issues.

Network Activity Diagram
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 1.2Mb
Shareware $25
Net Activity Diagram (NAD) is a Windows application that monitors your computer Internet activity. It monitors the main Internet protocols (TCP, UDP) and displays the amount of transferred data. NAD provides a simple and comfortable user interface, easy to understand setup and full control over the visualization process.

NetWorx
OS: WinVista/7/8/10  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 7.5Mb
Shareware $25
NetWorx is a powerful multilingual tool that helps you objectively evaluate your bandwidth situation. You can use it to collect bandwidth usage data and measure the speed of your Internet or any other network connection. NetWorx can help you identify possible sources of network problems, ensure that you do not exceed the bandwidth limits specified by your ISP, or track down suspicious network activity characteristic of Trojan horses and hacker attacks. The incoming and outgoing traffic is represented on a line chart and logged to a file, so that you can always view statistics about your daily, weekly and monthly bandwidth usage and dialup duration. The reports can be exported to a variety of formats, such as HTML, MS Word and Excel, for further analysis.

NextSensor 2.7
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Win64  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 346Kb
Freeware
NextSensor is an easy to use temperature and voltage monitoring tool. It probes the AMD64 on-die thermal diode, Vcore, VDIMM, VAGP, VBAT, 5VSB, 3VSB, +12, -12, +5V, -5V, +3.3V sensor lines and shows system temperatures (including processor, HDD and North Bridge) in the Tray Bar. The program is capable of monitoring negative temperatures, includes the NextSensor Remote Monitor function that allows to remotely monitor voltage, temperature and fan speed parameters. The current version supports many popular Winbond, Fintek and ITE Super I/O LPC chips. Learn more...

NikNak 2008
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 622Kb
Shareware $15
NikNak is a program that: shows the day, date or the time (analog or digital), CPU usage, total memory usage, drive space - used or free, has a pop-up calendar, displays your internet data transfer speed, has space for up to about 90 "QuickStart" programs and files.

Open Hardware Monitor
OS: WinXP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 240Kb
Freeware
Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source software that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer. The utility 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.

PassMark BatteryMon
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP/2k3/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.3Mb
Shareware $24
BatteryMon is an easy to use application that allows users to monitor the performance of laptop batteries and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). The battery charge level is graphed in real time, along with an extrapolated trend line and comparison trend line. The program gives detailed system and status information about each battery installed.

PassMark DiskCheckup
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 40Kb
Freeware
PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the S.M.A.R.T. attributes of a particular hard disk drive. The utility displays the current values of the SMART attributes, along with the Threshold value for that attribute. DiskCheckup also displays some additional drive information, such as the drive serial number, model number, the number of cylinders, tracks, the sectors per track, etc.

PassMark WirelessMon 4.0
OS: WinXP/2003/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 2.3Mb
Shareware $24
WirelessMon is a software tool that allows users to monitor the status of wireless WiFi adapter(s) and gather information about nearby wireless access points and hot spots in real time. WirelessMon can log the information collected into a file, provides comprehensive graphing of signal level and real time IP and 802.11 WiFi statistics.

Resource Patrol
OS: Win9x/Me  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 247Kb
Freeware
This program will monitor your CPU, RAM and a swap-file usage, show you some information about your CPU and operating system, monitor the HDD cache, file system operations, and more. At the moment, Resource Patrol has only Russian interface.

PerfMonitor
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/7/8  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 830Kb
Freeware

PerfMonitor is a processor performance monitoring tool. It allows to track the frequency of 4 events (such as branch prediction success rate, instructions per cycle, cache access, etc.) chosen from a model-specific list. PerfMonitor can be used to identify the performance bottlenecks of a system, or to monitor a program for cache-miss rate or mis-predicted branches. But PerfMonitor can also be used as a hardware-level CPU comparison tool, comparing the key parameters of different CPUs runnning the same benchmark.

Process Monitor
OS: Win2k/XP/2k3/Vista Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. It combines the features of two legacy Sysinternals utilities, Filemon and Regmon, and adds an extensive list of enhancements including rich and non-destructive filtering, comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names, reliable process information, full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation, simultaneous logging to a file, and much more.

Real Temp
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 290Kb
Freeware

RealTemp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, dual Core and quad Core processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TjMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU. As your CPU heats up, your Distance to TjMax will decrease. If it reaches zero your processor will start to throttle or slow down so obviously maximizing your distance away from TjMax will help your computer to run at full speed and more reliably too. RealTemp also includes a logging feature and a small benchmark, which can be used to quickly create a small amount of heat. It uses a very accurate timer, scales very linearly with CPU speed and is not effected by memory timings, etc. This is a quick and easy way to see how your computer is running.

RightMark Spy (Gotcha!)
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Donwload  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 114Kb
Freeware

The utility will help your monitor the following: CPU frequency, CPU load in %%, Free memory available, PCI overclock (via HPC clock shift).

SensorsView Pro
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 1.8Mb
Shareware $19.95

SensorsView Pro is a program that monitors temperature of CPU, motherboard, hard disks, voltages, and fan speeds. The program informs you about critical values of any parameters of your system (e.g. about overheating the processor or a stop of fans). You can set a threshold and correction for each parameter.

ServerSentinel
OS: WinXP/2003/Vista/2008/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 19Mb
Shareware $64.95

With ServerSentinel you can monitor server and network services as well as local resources automatically and reliably. The monitoring software reacts and informs immediately in case of failures and irregularities. ServerSentinel monitors servers, network services, such as HTTP, POP3 and SNMP, as well as hard drives and memory usage. By means of connected hardware sensors, you can, for example, verify the temperature and humidity in the server room. If an error or irregularity is tracked, ServerSentinel notifies you in real time via email, text-to-speech output, acoustic or optical warning signal. It can also take immediate action by running automatic scripts or programs that can take corrective actions. Logged failures, reported irregularities and other performance data will be stored in a dedicated database.

SIGuardian  Recommended Software
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 1.2Mb
Shareware
SIGuardian is a tool what allows you to control the health of your HDDs, and prevents data loss because of failures. Using S.M.A.R.T. SIGuardian predicts the end date of HDD lifetime, so you can make backup copies of all your data before it's to late. It will also show you information about your hard drive and its temperature.

S.M.A.R.T. Assistant
OS: Win2k/XP/2003/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 562Kb
Freeware
S.M.A.R.T. Assistant is designed to monitor S.M.A.R.T. values and temperature of your hard drive. The utility also allows to control AAM (Automatic Acoustic Management) and APM (Advanced Power Management).

S.M.A.R.T. Vision
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 2.7Mb
Freeware
This program monitors S.M.A.R.T. values of your hard drive and will alarm in case of a dangerous disk state. Besides, S.M.A.R.T. Vision can show you comprehensive information about the drive itself.

SpeedFan 4.52  Recommended Software
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7/8  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 2Mb
Freeware
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors fan speeds, temperatures and voltages in computers with hardware monitoring chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.

Speed-O-Meter
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 915Kb
Shareware $14.95
Speed-O-Meter is a program that measures the TCP/IP speed of all interfaces on your machine including network adapters and modems. It displays the true transmission speed and does not average it like IE. Use Improve speed feature to optimize your registry settings to increase your TCP/IP speed! The speed can be displayed in kilobits or kilobytes!

StatWin Professional 9
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/7/8  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 7.6Mb
Shareware $39
StatWin is intended for collecting and analysis of computer activity statistics, when computer works under the control of operating systems Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8. At present the program gives a capability to collect such statistical information as following: 1. Computer running time; computer close-down time. 2. Information about processes (applications) running in Windows. 3. Information about operations with modem. 4. Information about activity with Internet. 5. Information about work with printer. And much more!

Throttle Watch
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 154Kb
Freeware
ThrottleWatch is a utility for detecting and reporting the CPU throttling activity in Pentium 4, Xeon, and Pentium M processors. The amount of heat a CPU produces varies according to the processing load. In situations of high sustained load (such as performance benchmarks, etc...), a CPU may produce more heat than the cooling mechanism is capable of removing, and reach a high enough internal temperature to trigger throttling. ThrottleWatch monitors and graphically displays both the CPU load and any throttling that occurs. ThrottleWatch can also create a journal file for use with external data analysis programs such as Microsoft Excel.

TMonitor
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 586Kb
Freeware

TMonitor is aimed to display the active clock of each individual core of Intel Core 2 and Core i3/i5/i7 processors. A very high refresh rate (20 times per second) allows to visualize the smallest clock variation in real time. TMonitor is able to detect mechanism such as Intel Turbo boost, and therefore allows to clearly visualize its effect as the processor is working.

TrayCPU
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 412Kb
Freeware
TrayCPU is a small utility that sits in the tray and show current CPU speed, i.e. processor's clock speed.

TrueSpeed
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2003  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
5/5 - 244Kb
Freeware
TrueSpeed is an ultra high-precision CPU speed detector. It will calculate the actual speed (frequency) of the microprocessor (CPU) in your computer. The speed of the CPU is rated by how many cycles it runs per second. This speed is measured in Hertz (Hz). TrueSpeed's accuracy is 0.001 MHz in 0.5 seconds.

UPS Assistant
OS: Win2k/XP/2003/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 549Kb
Freeware
UPS Assistant is a utility designed to monitor the status of a Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) connected to a USB port (Megatec/Centralion protocol support required). Key features include: configurable e-mail alerts and reports, UPS battery test, configurable suspend, hibernate, shutdown, etc.

VCool
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 31Kb
Freeware
This little utility displays the current CPU and System temperature in your system tray, cools your CPU during idle. It can alarm or shut down the system if the temperature exceeds a prescribed value. Presently, VCool works with AMD CPUs and on a limited number of chipsets (the full list of supported hardware can be found at the official site).

Winpulse
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating:
4/5 - 900Kb
Shareware $24.99
Winpulse is a system resources monitor which shows a wealth of information, including: drives space, RAM, swap, CPU load, audio volumes, general system information, LAN and modem speed, Kernel resources, motherboard temperature, voltage and fan speed sensor via the interface to MBM5 monitor, and more!

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