HWMonitor vs HWiNFO

The kings of system monitoring go head-to-head. Zak Storey investigates.

HWMONITOR | PRICE Free / Starting from €20, WEB www.cpuid.com | GIMP | PRICE Free / Starting from US$29 WEB www.hwinfo.com Ah, these two titans. If you’ve spent any amount of time in the world of benchmarking, stress-testing your PC, or even if you’re just curious about how toasty that Ryzen 9 7950X is getting, you’ll have no doubt heard of HWMonitor and HWiNFO. On the surface, they serve a very similar purpose. Their job, as much as it is, is to tie into the mass of sensors that litter your motherboard and supporting components, reporting on all manner of temperatures, voltages, and clock speeds that your OS and system need to know about. At this point, they then relay that information directly back to you in an easily readable format.…

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