Batu69 Posted November 8, 2016 Share Posted November 8, 2016 After almost two update-free years, the Open Hardware Monitor project has jumped back to life with the release of version 0.8. The open source project is a free tool for monitoring CPU load, clock speed and temperatures, fan speeds, voltages, video adapters, RAM usage and more. The new build brings much-need hardware support for Intel Skylake CPUs, along with Kaby Lake, Airmont and i5, and the Xeon E5-26xx v4 and D-15xx. Added support for the ITE IT8620E, IT8628E, and Nuvoton NCT6102D/NCT6106D super I/O chips should get the program working with many more motherboards. There’s now more information available for NVIDIA RAM, Samsung and Plextor SSDs. The Plot window has smarter and more customizable handling of pen colors, and there are a few bug fixes thrown in. The program is still a tiny download, only 502KB. The interface is basic but functional, and it’s easy to generate charts of whatever attribute you’d like to monitor. Open Hardware Monitor delivered reasonable results on our test laptop, displaying accurate details and figures for our CPU, motherboard, hard drive and more. The program couldn’t give us any information on our GPU temperature or load, despite identifying it correctly, but we’ve no idea how widespread that kind of issue might be. If you’re interested in hardware monitors, check it out anyway -- there’s no installation required and it still runs on Windows XP or later. Open Hardware Monitor is an open-source tool for Windows. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrovic Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 Open Hardware Monitor 0.8 is the newest version of the popular computer hardware program for 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows devices. A jump to version 0.8 is usually not something that we write about unless new features or changed are introduced that make the news interesting to the majority of readers here on this site. What makes the release of Open Hardware Monitor 0.8 interesting is the fact that it is the first release in over two years. The program was well received before but many users probably thought that the project was dead due to the lack of updates. The new release changes that and gives hope that releases will be published more frequently again. Open Hardware Monitor 0.8 You can download the program from the developer site. It is a portable application which means that you just need to extract it and may run it from any location right away without installation. The interface of Open Hardware Monitor has not changed, and that is a good thing. The program displays the hardware of the PC on launch. Groups like the processor, memory, hard drives or the video card are listed each with one or multiple items or subgroups underneath them. There is clocks, temperatures, load and powers for the processor alone for instance. Open Hardware Monitor keeps track of minimum, maximum and current values of items. This makes it easy to find out how hot a hard drive, the video card, or the processor really get, or the percentage of memory used when you ran some taxing programs. Some advanced options, the saving of reports, the logging interval, or logging can be configured on top of that. Open Hardware Monitor 0.8 Changes The new version of Open Hardware Monitor is all about support improvements. The program supports the following devices, device families or sensors in the new version: Intel Skylake, Kaby Lake and Airmont CPUs Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 and Xeon D-15xx CPUs. Intel Intel i5, i7 5xxC (14nm) CPUs. AMD family 15h model 30h APUs. ITE IT8620E and IT8628E super I/O chips. Nuvoton NCT6102D/NCT6106D super I/O chips. Better Nvidia RAM sensors (free, used and total) support. More sensors for Samsung and Plextor SSDs. A couple of issues were corrected on top of that. The new version fixes wrong Nvidia GPU clock min and plotting values, issues with Nuvoton NCT6791D super I/O chips after wake from S3 sleep state, and incorrect OS version showing up in reports on Windows 10 and 8.1 PCs. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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