Moreover, you wouldn't want to accidentally mess with settings you don't understand. If you just want to monitor your PC's CPU temperature, we recommend using a simple utility like Core Temp.

It does read CPU core temps, but doesn't read fan RPM at all. Or more correctly, it thinks the fans spin at 600000 and 450000 RPM for intake and CPU, respectively.

The software developers are mentioning that during performance testing, the systems are locking up from heat issues on the GPU or CPU, but I want to verify where the problems are coming from.

PC owners wishing to monitor the performance, load, temperature, fan speeds, and more will be interested to know that the NZXT CAM 4.0 PC monitoring software is now available to download for free.

Windows 11 users can monitor their CPU, GPU, RAM and Network performance with widgets on the Dev Home dashboard without the need to join the Windows Insider program.

Also including at the top of the CPU monitoring is a quick shortcut to AMD's Ryzen Master software. That app offers a more complete monitoring and performance tweaking package than the Radeon ...

As one of the planned upcoming features for the Windows 10 operating system, compatible graphics cards will now have temperature monitoring.

Here's how to monitor your Mac CPU and GPU temperature to help diagnose problems with solutions for both Intel-based and Apple Silicon Macs and MacBooks.

Knowing your graphics card's GPU temperature is vital when your PC keeps overheating, or when you try your hand at overclocking. Here's how to check your GPU temperature.

Core Temp will show you a lot of data even on the default screen, mainly the different temperature readouts from each CPU core, but the CPU #0 figure is the temperature you want to monitor.