Real Temp displays various information about the cpu. The information are not limited to the cpu temperatures but also the model of the cpu, clock speeds and cpu load.

The main purpose of Real Temp is however cpu temperature monitoring. The temperatures of each cpu core are displayed in columns in the program’s interface. They are divided into various sections that display the maximum and minimum temperatures as well as the current cpu temperature.

The time that the maximum and minimum temperature levels were reached are also displayed in the program which is great for troubleshooting purposes. Many advanced settings are available that can change the information that are displayed, integrate external applications such as RivaTuner or settings that define how and where the application is displayed.

The CPU temperature monitor Real Temp uses less than one Megabyte of computer memory when running minimized in the system tray. Computer users with Intel cpus might want to give the software program a try.

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The process manager displays a list of processes currently running on the system. By default hidden processes are hidden but they can easily be revealed in the interface. A right-click provides several possibilities to interact with the process. It is possible to open the program directory, perform a Google search, to set the priority of the process, look at its properties and create a rule for it.

The rules are basically permanent changes to the process. Everyone can set a process priority in the task manager but those priorities are reset when the process is killed. With rules users can make those changes permanent as long as the process manager is running in the background.

Even more interesting is the fact that you can set process priorities for visible and minimized applications and set a cpu core affinity and that each instance of the process should be distributed to different cores. Another interesting aspect are the special actions. Those can be defined if a process is started, ended or idle. Actions include to launch another application, to restart the process, to kill it or to show a tooltip.

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Core Temp concentrates on the cpu, the central processing unit of the computer. It can read the temperature of several cores if the cpu is a multi-core cpu. While this is not a unique feature Core Temp does its best to display the temperatures in the best possible way. The software provides an easy interface that displays all information in one screen.

One great feature for overclockers and new PCs is the logging feature that logs the temperature of the CPU and its cores so that it becomes easy to analyse the temperature changes over time. I still prefer to use Speedfan because it provides additional information that are important to me. If you just want to analyse and check the cpu you are best of with Core Temp though.

Another reason might me memory usage. Core Temp uses a third of the memory that Speedfan uses when running. (3MB compared to 9MB).

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Once when messing with command-line features a bit, I found out that a simple 1-line code can bring my CPU to 100% load in a second for as long as I want. If I really wanted to test the reliability of my CPU fan or water cooling system, I would run this tiny code for pretty long time like a few hours to make my CPU sweat a bit. Now to that simple code – bring up the Run window by pressing Win+R and start command line by putting cmd in it. Here comes that simple loop:

for /L %i in (1,1,#) do help
(replace the # with a number determining how many loops will be executed and also how much time it’ll take to finish the task, depending on your CPU’s performance)

Pretty simple, huh? It does nothing else than to repeat displaying command-line’s built-in help which should raise (according to my multiple tests) every single-core CPU load to 100% and maintain it at that level for the time the script is executed. That’s all folks !

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Config Inspector is a nice little freeware application for windows operating systems that could be described as an advanced task manager. Besides offering more information about loaded applications and processes it also displays vital information about memory and cpu usage, network utilization and general windows information.

A nice handy utility which is only 125K zipped. Just unpack and run, no installation required.

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But thats of course not all, they also discuss some interesting aspects of history including a look at dual core cpus, the amd code name troubles and energy efficiency by performance per watt. The only negative aspect I can find is that they don´t give a recommendation for various user types, which means that the average user will have troubles finding out which cpu would be best suited for him. But normally the average user is not reading articles about cpu charts either, so, take a look and if you find it useful I´am more than happy.

If you are interested head over to tomshardware

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