Note that hardware manufacturers may offer their own skinned/tweaked versions of these programs (ie Asus ROG used to have one if I recall). They also allow validation of overclock and (if desired) contribution to a database or even 'hall of fame'.

GPU-Z and GPU-Z - are nice hardware info applications great for their intended use but not designed as sole live monitoring tools. I suggest using more than one temperature monitor though, as some of them can interpret things differently (ie CPU vs CPU package etc.) or can report higher or lower than usual that's why its good to have at least 2 applications able to run simultaneously for confirmation. Open Hardware Monitor ( last binary release 2016.) NOTE: Updated fork exists!ĬoreTemp - is a nice CPU temp monitor and thankfully is still being updated. The following are, to my understanding no longer maintained and/or defunct - be wary when using as they may not be up to the task on recent hardware. Good discussion here - its important to keep an eye out as some of the hardware that we used when building/tweaking a previous system may no longer be supported and/or supplanted by better offerings.