For my preferences I use msi afterburned and hwinfo. I have not had any problems with these two programs. Answer from Barlus00 on reddit.com
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reddit.com › r/buildapc › is open hardware monitor safe? serious.
r/buildapc on Reddit: Is open hardware monitor safe? Serious.
November 18, 2024 -

Looking to find a CPU temp monitor tool for my grandparents Intel pentium g5400 since and adrenaline only supports and hardware, and only shows temps for the wx 4100 I have in it. I know there is a program called cpuz but I'm just looking for something safe and I can put onto it since I'm trying to figure out if the GPUs 85c temp under full load affects the CPU near it. The desktop is a hp slimline that you find at a Walmart as a reference to the desktop if anyone asks why the GPU reaches 85c under full load, HP only made one intake vent on the cover shell, hence the 85c on the wx 4100.

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reddit.com › r/pcmasterrace › open hardware monitor driver vulnerability. options and/or alternatives?
r/pcmasterrace on Reddit: Open Hardware Monitor driver vulnerability. Options and/or alternatives?
August 13, 2025 -

I've been running Open Hardware Monitor latest version 0.9.6 for several years. Today after my Windows 10 PC rebooted I noticed some info was no longer being displayed and saw there was a security vulnerability caught by Windows Security/Microsoft Defender: "VulnerableDriver:WinNT/Winring0.G"

As there is no newer version of Open Hardware Monitor and it hasn't been updated since 2020, are there other decent or better options for showing running system stats? Specifically I like that OHM shows my motherboard and CPU versions as well as temps and fan speeds.

EDIT: Seeing the same warning for LibreHardwareMonitor v0.9.4.

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reddit.com › r/computertechs › you should know about openhardwaremonitor if you want temps in tray or
[Mature Content] r/computertechs on Reddit: You should know about OpenHardwareMonitor if you want temps in tray or
January 13, 2017 -

I was just about to ask around, then I did more googling

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

it is open source, its looks like carbon copy of HWmonitor, but if you right click on any sensor it allows you to put that temp in tray

Then in tray righ clicking you can change color, or remove it

This is what customers who always come with the idea of overheating need.

No more multiple large apps that try to do many things but only for CPU or only for GPU. I used coretemp and msi afterburner before, or speedfan. This one solved it all.

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reddit.com › r/techsupport › open hardware monitor
r/techsupport on Reddit: Open Hardware Monitor
April 6, 2025 - Open Hardware Monitor is enabled on startup and I check on it sometimes to see the temps of the CPU. When I checked it several minutes ago it showed my bus speed was 120.5MHz instead of the constant 99.8MHz and the CPU speed was 3011.9MHz instead of ~2694.0MHz.
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reddit.com › r/amd › open hardware monitor 0.9.0 released, an open source utility that will monitor temperature sensors, voltages, fan speeds, clock speeds, and cpu core load of your machine
r/Amd on Reddit: Open Hardware Monitor 0.9.0 released, an open Source utility that will monitor temperature sensors, voltages, fan speeds, clock speeds, and CPU core load of your machine
February 25, 2020 - Open Hardware Monitor is enabled on startup and I check on it sometimes to see the temps of the CPU. When I checked it several minutes ago it showed my bus speed was 120.5MHz instead of the constant 99.8MHz and the CPU speed was 3011.9MHz instead of ~2694.0MHz.
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reddit.com › r/windowshelp › is this openhardwaremonitor trojan warning from windows security legit?
r/WindowsHelp on Reddit: Is this OpenHardwareMonitor Trojan warning from Windows Security legit?
March 26, 2026 -

I have used the (open source) program to monitor temps since 2019, without any apparent issues, originally on Windows 10, and now on 11, as I upgraded the machine. This came in a notification out of nowhere today.

I know the program doesn't receive any updates, since 2020, but I don't need anything fancy.

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reddit.com › r/computers › open hardware monitor for pc
r/computers on Reddit: Open Hardware Monitor for PC
November 4, 2024 - Hello, all. Just got a new PC last week and I wanted to monitor the temperatures of each component as I use the computer. I read that OHM is a good…
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reddit.com › r/buildapc › [discussion] open hardware monitor is the greatest temperature monitoring tool i've ever used!
r/buildapc on Reddit: [Discussion] Open Hardware Monitor is the greatest temperature monitoring tool I've ever used!
September 2, 2014 - Just wanted to suggest to everyone, with new and old builds alike, to use Open Hardware Monitor to monitor your system temperatures and voltages. This tool is easy to use, and allows you to display any of your system specs in both your system ...
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reddit.com › r/pcmasterrace › open hardware monitor - no updates?
r/pcmasterrace on Reddit: Open hardware monitor - no updates?
October 20, 2024 -

Windows 11 user.

I use Open hardware monitor for years, it always helped me with T°C monitoring (when gaming, idle, etc.) and RAM monitoring (what I do to use the most of RAM, etc.).

However, I noticed it has been several years with zero update. In my daily work laptop, it only show very little amount of sensors (no temperature sensor for example).

Do you guys have any news from dev?

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reddit.com › r/techsupport › impossible cpu temps from open hardware monitor
r/techsupport on Reddit: Impossible CPU Temps from Open Hardware Monitor
August 3, 2023 -

According to Open Hardware Monitor, my Ryzen Threadripper 1950X is routinely hitting temperatures in excess of 200° C. My computer is running perfectly fine without any slow downs or loss of frames while gaming. The fans and pump on the AIO loop attached to the CPU are all running fine and don't go into high gear unless I'm rendering 3D animation in Maya.

This has got to be a bug of some sort right? My CPU couldn't possibly keep working if it's operating at twice the boiling point of water right?

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reddit.com › r/intelarc › anyone using openhardwaremonitor with their intel arc gpu?
r/IntelArc on Reddit: Anyone using OpenHardwareMonitor with their Intel Arc GPU?
February 17, 2023 -

I'm still on the fence over getting an A770 to upgrade from my GTX 1070.

While it's not a huge thing and not a dealbreaker at all, I was curious if anyone also runs OpenHardwareMonitor for temp/power monitoring... and if so, does it properly detect your Intel Arc card?

It's my preferred monitoring widget, especially because I can make it blend into my wallpaper pretty well: https://imgur.com/a/hhVsCLh

Unfortunately, the app hasn't been updated in a hot minute. May be dead, but I haven't had a need to look elsewhere because I haven't upgraded my hardware in a few years.

Alternatively, what monitoring software (with widgets!) is everyone currently using with their Intel Arc GPU? I know there's Intel Arc Control as a standard monitoring suite, but I wasn't sure if it had widget capabilities similar to what I have in the above screenshot.

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reddit.com › r/techsupport › help with understanding degrees in open hardware monitor
r/techsupport on Reddit: Help with understanding degrees in Open Hardware Monitor
September 12, 2023 -

So I downloaded OHW to keep an eye on the temperatures while playing.

It's a Xiaomi Notebook from 2020, so it's not really optimized for gaming.

I'm playing Final Fantasy X and the the value is usually around 70-80 degrees, but the Max Degrees indicate something between 90 and 100 for all of the cores, and for the CPU package.

Is this considered okay? Or should I turn down the settings?

  • Note that it's always around 70-80 degrees when I check it, but max still says 100.

(The GPU seems fine.)

Thank you!