The Open Hardware Monitor is a free open source application that monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer.
Supported Hardware
- CPU core sensors
- Intel Core 2, Core i3/i5/i7, Sandy Bridge
- AMD K8 (0Fh family), K10 (10h, 11h family), Llano (12h family), Fusion (14h family), Bulldozer (15h family)
- Mainboard sensors
- ITE IT8712F, IT8716F, IT8718F, IT8720F, IT8721F, IT8726F, IT8728F, IT8772E
- Fintek F71858, F71862, F71869, F71882, F71889ED, F71889AD, F71889F
- Nuvoton NCT6771F, NCT6772F, NCT6775F, NCT6776F
- Winbond W83627DHG, W83627DHG-P, W83627EHF, W83627HF, W83627THF, W83667HG, W83667HG-B, W83687THF
- GPU sensors
- Nvidia
- AMD (ATI)
- Hard drives
- S.M.A.R.T. temperature sensors
- SSD wear level, host reads/writes
- Fan controllers
- T-Balancer bigNG
- Alphacool Heatmaster
Data Interface
The Open Hardware Monitor publishes all sensor data to WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). This allows other applications to read and use the sensor information as well. A preliminary documentation of the interface can be found here.
