Core Temp Review - A Free Application For Windows
If you have a PC and are curious about how much the CPU is heating up, Core Temp is an excellent program to install. This freeware monitors the temperature of your CPU and is compatible with the vast majority of current Intel and AMD processors. It features an Overheat Protection system that displays an alert and can either sleep your PC or shut it down. It comes with many useful features and a ton of free add-ons.
Another feature of Core Temp is the notification area. This program shows the temperature of each CPU core and can be dragged to the taskbar. The default polling interval is 1000 milliseconds, but you can customize this if you need to. It can also show you the temperature of four different cores, which is handy if you want to monitor the temperatures of each of them. You can also choose which core is hotter than the others and drag the processor temperature to the taskbar.
Another useful feature of Core Temp is that it displays the temperature of each core in your PC and keeps a log. Once you enable logging, the application will log all the information you enter. This log will be stored in the same location as the program installation. Core Temp will collect data every 10 seconds and you can view it in Excel or other spreadsheet applications to find out more about your CPU temperature. The app also displays information about other hardware components and other computer settings on your PC.