Best free temperature program

espresso

Laz123 wrote: »

I couldn't find the free version.

If Speedfan which supports the sensors listed here doesn't work on your "old Dell" motherboard, why do you expect another program to work.

David_Aston

espresso wrote: »

I have not yet found a PC that does not work with Speedfan here

Virtually every PC has sensors for motherboard, CPU and hard drive temps.

I'm guessing that the other posters are barking up the wrong tree!

Hi espresso
Downloaded speed fan via your link. During installing came across something called "yonto", which looked rather intrusive, and which seemed unable to opt out of during installation. Am I missing something?

Laz123

espresso wrote: »

If Speedfan which supports the sensors listed here doesn't work on your "old Dell" motherboard, why do you expect another program to work.

It must be because I'm thick. I'm good on software but not hardware. I wrongly assumed that what was lacking in the Dell a good programmer might have found a way to circumnavigate round the Dell problem.

Gunstar

Laz123 wrote: »

I couldn't find the free version.

http://www.aida64.com/downloads

The trial version is there, it has some limitations but you will quickly see it's good and worth the money

Gunstar

mcfisco wrote: »

How do you know it's accurate? How do you verify the info?

Your motherboard, CPU etc.. have sensors on them (in some bios' they will show you the temps.) AIDA basically grabs the sensor data and outputs them for you.

esuhl

Gunstar wrote: »

Your motherboard, CPU etc.. have sensors on them (in some bios' they will show you the temps.) AIDA basically grabs the sensor data and outputs them for you.

But... how could you compare the temperatures reported by the BIOS with those reported by AIDA?

And if you could, why would you need AIDA at all?

Gunstar

esuhl wrote: »

But... how could you compare the temperatures reported by the BIOS with those reported by AIDA?

And if you could, why would you need AIDA at all?

Well you can't sit in the bios and use your OS at the same time. AIDA brings these results to your desktop.

AIDA has a sensor panel which you can customise with colour, size and the results you wish to display.

*note* I don't work for AIDA! haha

GunJack

OR.... SIW is great and will give all temperatures there are sensors for, and it's a standalone .exe, no need to install. It also gives soooo much more than temps

http://download.cnet.com/SIW-Portable/3000-2094_4-12306386.html

esuhl

Gunstar wrote: »

Well you can't sit in the bios and use your OS at the same time. AIDA brings these results to your desktop.

Exactly. So you can't compare the temperatures reported by AIDA with those in your BIOS and say that they are "accurate" because, once your PC has loaded the OS and drivers and software it's in a very different state to when you were examining the temperatures in the BIOS.

Maybe you could claim that AIDA reports temperatures that are very vaguely in the right ballpark, but that's about it.

Dave_C_2

GunJack wrote: »

OR.... SIW is great and will give all temperatures there are sensors for, and it's a standalone .exe, no need to install. It also gives soooo much more than temps

http://download.cnet.com/SIW-Portable/3000-2094_4-12306386.html

Curses beaten to it! Piriform Speccy does a similar job.

Dave