FREE utility that EVERYONE should install... TODAY! 

Jay catching up to 2011 with this one

You're not gonna DDOS anyone because you're the last to know, Jay lol

*_Don’t let Jay near a MoBo with A Drill_* Thanks for being Awesome Jay! We all appreciate it!

Just an FYI: Crossbar Clock is the frequency and rate at which information is shared across GPU components, such as texture mapping units, render outputs, graphics processing clusters, and the memory controller. It determines the overall performance of the GPU, the higher the clock the faster the components are communicating with each other and the more information is being processed to reach the final video output. The Crossbar Clock is typically timed variably depending upon the clock speeds of the Memory Clock and Core Clock. If a GPU is having higher than average latency and poorer performance and all of the otherwise typical clocks one would think to check are nominal (e.g. the core clock frequency and memory frequency) it could mean the Crossbar Clock is faulty, mismatched, or a subcomponent is failing. Crossbar Clock is usually preset with a minimum frequency by the GPU's bios and then dynamic above that frequency based on the Core and Memory clock. A failed component or bad bios typically sees the Crossbar Clock drop down to the baseline or minimum clock speed leading to poor performance.

There’s a few programs over the years I’ve grown to love simply bc Jay explains the setup/features so thoroughly. Fan control goes on every PC I build now. Love these kinds of videos

Jay is only 26 years behind the rest of the world.

Been using it for years. Best monitor software ever. As a tech " God " I'm suprised it took you soo flipping long Jay!

I already really liked HWInfo 64, but Jay really expanded my understanding of some of the deeper features. Jay alerted me to UI features like hiding lines, or linking to another app, and using logging (I'd not really "need" that, since I'm really just looking at regular monitoring of my primary PC machine, and will also use this software right away on a new machine to get details on how it behaves). Thanks, Jay. There are good reasons you are a popular channel.

After using it for years (and for free) i decided to pay for the full licence unlimited time, cause i think that a good job deserve to be rewarded

He used hwmonitor until 2024 for godsakes, that's gonna be a meme

"In today's video, I'll be checking out a program my comment section has been recommending to me for years".

What I like about it is that you can select anything you want to monitor & add it to your taskbar, so at a quick glance you can see what temps are, usages, or even voltage levels if so desired.

been using this since 2001 jay... wtf lol. WHERE HAVE YUUUUUUU BEEN!!

HWinfo also has GPU busy and wait in there, too, so you can use it to diagnose CPU or GPU bottlenecks, no additional monitoring software required

One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble gooble gobble!

The senors for Vcore and VR out will show you the amount of voltage the CPU cores are using rather than the VID. If you enable the option for EC support it will show additional sensors like PCH. The DIMM sensors consume system resources so I disable them most of the time. If you put an X in the box for Profiling Time (on the Config page) you can see what sensors are consuming resources.

With all due respect to everyone posting, just because someone is in IT, doesn't mean they know everything there is to know about IT. With that said... Where the hell have you been Jay? 🤣 This app is so old it should be obsolete, but it's still going strong. I still love it. Love your stuff... Keep 'em coming.

Personally, i don't use shared memory support as hwinfo can input stuff directly into RTSS (check settings). You don't even need msi afterburner hehe.

Ron's data edit is a piece of free software that makes working with CSVs a lot easier. It handles them much better than Excel and gives you more options

Honestly can't believe you're only just using this. However I'll still watch the video in the hope of finding something I haven't used before.

HWiNFO64's best trick is the ability to add a sensor to your tray, customize it and apply an alarm. The the second best trick is the OSD is good for more than CPU/GPU load and frame rates. e.g. If you think your game is applying too much voltage to a component (hint, hint), add it to your OSD.

When loading the program I noticed the option to download the 66 page PDF users manual - really recommend to get a head start. Great looking tool, thanks Jay.

LOL.... You've finally jumped onboard. Every time you've used CPUID HWMonitor, I've thought Jay - you need to switch. I love the ability to see which cores are thermal throttling and can do per-core voltage / multiplier tweaking in XTU to make sure no cores get throttled when running Cinebench R23. Such a great monitoring utility!

Select everything you like to see on the fly with holding shift down and click, and then right click, customize values, and then press bold + change color to whatever you want :) Or color code P core sand E cores separate, go crazy! Also add GPU and CPU temp into system tray :))

After all those years. Finally!!!

Wait, are you telling me he didn't know of HWinfo64 before? What?

Admittedly even before i knew much about personal computers a few years ago, i was told to use this to check cpu temps cause my laptop was stuttering, i then realized everyone used it so it surprised me a bit that you didnt. Welcome to the family

You overlooked an important feature: the ability to add a temperature sensor to the system tray, allowing real-time temperature readings to be displayed at all times. My favorite.

Hello World!

Robin Williams in Jumanji: What year is it! LOL

I’m not gonna show you how to do that right now. Proceeds to do it on camera 😂 love ya jay

In the Safety tab, make sure to untick Corsair Link Support because it interferes with iCUE software and fan speeds for those of us using a corsair AIO.

DUDE!!!! You ARE using it for COMMERCIAL purposes, you are making money with this very RU-vid video, why didn't you purchase a license?!?!?!?

In HWInfo64 I set different font colors for different things I monitor. All of my fans are in bold red font, and my temps are in bold yellow font. It's quick to pick out things more important to me than the other sensors I leave open.

Correct me if I am wrong, but that OSD feature would be pretty cool for one of those little monitoring screens I have seen you make before. No?

Jay in regards to commercial/ non-commercial, I am pretty sure what you are using it for would be considered commercial use.

Hey Jay, will you do a review of DCS (Digital Combat Simulator)? It’s a beast of a flight sim, would be a great sim to test settings, hardware, tuning, etc.

Also, just want to point out (especially for 4090 users) that you can set an alarm on any sensor info. You can set an alarm on the 12vhpwr coming in to the GPU. If it goes under 11.95 for me, itll display a popup and an alarm sound, so i know that something is wrong, and can shut the pc down before damage happens.

I'm glad you gave it a try! I've used it for quite a while and love it. I guess the only downside I can find to it is that there are sooo many sensors on it that it can be overwhelming at first glance, but its also easy to configure and remove those in the setup menu. Good stuff, my good Sir!

And it also has a Dark Theme, great!

One nice thing is that certain motherboards (ASUS Rog boards etc) Do report the actual HARDWARE voltage for the CPU in there as registered by the MB sensors. One of the awesome things about HWiNFO64 if it's there it's displayed.

Been using it for a while. Real nice if you have a stream deck - can assign a button to monitor a certain thing, and have all your temps / usage visible to you without needing to ruin your in-game immersion (for example)

Just found ur channel a couple days ago and honestly ur videos have been super super helpful. I’ve learned a lot and it’s making me even more excited to build my pc. 4 days left til I have all my parts! 😁

You can also change the polling frequency, which can be very useful in for example logging stuff for over a LONG time without having to deal with a massive file by turning it up high. Or getting a better idea of how things vary on short timescales.

Wow….Thought had a NEW utility. Been using this for years. Welcome to the future.

we need a playlist have all the vid u guys made for best software. because every software u guys mention is actually the best! ty for making those series

Paul's hardware been using this forever. I'm sure Jay has watched his videos before. That is how I found it. One thing i like about this video though, he did explain more of the settings that I never knew were there just in case I do want to use them.

FYI, it isn't just Aorus that gets a special theme. I just downloaded it and got a ROG theme (red/blue) by default for my Asus ROG Mobo.

Using it for years now and it was better than all the alternative programs I tried so far. It belongs to the first programs I install on systems to check their health.

1:09 Jay doesn't do "friendly fan hugs" to websites. No one wants that phone call, "we appreciate you supporting our company, but all your followers crashed our server" 😮😅😂😂😂

Yeah, I also just started using this even though I've been overclocking since Celeron Mendocino. It really helped my recent 5900x re-overclocking ever since I upgraded my AIO so now the CPU is not restricted by thermal limit but by power limits.

I've been using this on all my computers for years now! Absolutely love it. I no longer really need it but it's cool to have in my opinion. I even run it on my ROG Ally X. Something that I found interesting was that by default it shows screen refresh info.

You don't need MSI Afterburner running for the OSD. HWInfo has its own communication with RTSS that looks exactly like the MSI Afterburner one, which you can customize with the points you want to look at and even choose different colors to categorize them.

Love using this utility with benchmarks and XTU.

Missed the super-simplest feature to double-click any sensor and display a graph plot of it. Also heads-up, version 6 does much of this, but is still free for Commercial use. It was a sad day when they dropped that, since my company wouldn't let us use any newer versions. The shared memory access was great for providing simple sensor readings for any developer to use.

I am actually shocked by this revelation!!! I thought pretty much every reviewer was using this. Jay......you have really stunned me into submission!! 😅

jay has finally seen the light!

thx for the entertaining info. just saying there's a game on Steam called Crime Scene Cleaner, and he looks just like you on the cover it's actually scary.

It helps me see lots of numbers, I just don't know what those numbers should or should not be, apart from extreme temps.

My favorite part is unlocking the layout so that i can put all my temps in one row, all my voltages in one row, all my wattage in one row etc, etc.. I love Hwinfo64

The only thing that annoys me about HWiNFO is that the shared memory support didn't originally have a paywall to it. I still use the version prior to that paywall so I can keep an eye on fan/pump speeds and upload/download rates while I'm gaming or streaming. For those curious, that version is 6.42, though I haven't tested that version on any systems newer than my gaming PC from late 2019. I'd forgotten about that paywall when I built my new media PC, though, which is recent and uses a Ryzen 7600, so there is a way to show the information in the same OSD as MSI Afterburner and RivatunerStatisticsServer without the DLL injection, but that injection is still required if you want the graph attached to MSI Afterburner, which I do use. I'll be testing V6.42 when I finish my new gaming build, which will be using a Ryzen 7900X and 7900XTX, but it would be nice if it wasn't paywalled. I'm not going to pay for something like that, especially when it used to be free. I also use it to keep an eye on CPU and GPU power draw in watts, but come on, I hate when stuff changes like that. The current version of MSI Afterburner does allow you to view power draw in watts, though, but it didn't when I first started checking it with HWiNFO. With the fact that the information can still go to the same OSD as MSI Afterburner, it makes it especially more questionable as to why they paywalled the injection. The paywalling is also why I stopped using Networx to monitor my internet usage, too. Free stuff is awesome and suggests they're doing it because they enjoy it, but when it shifts out of being free and incurs a cost, it then feels like they're just doing it for money. I get that it's work to do, but there are examples of things which have never required you pay for it, such as the infinite 30-day trial of WinRAR. It's like they want to have an honor system for the commercial use, but then slap the non-commercial people when we try to reach for something we're told we can use. Been using it for several years, though, and I haven't found anything better to replace it in combination with MSI Afterburner. If only the latter would update to have all the same stuff while remaining free, then I could throw out HWiNFO. At the least, all I really need added to MSI Afterburner would be the upload/download rates and system pump/fan speeds, since it does now show power draw in watts. I like tracking all this needless information when I game, too, but the pump info is one I'd prefer keeping an eye on, in case of a failure. For initial system setup, I could always use Hardware Monitor to check other information, but for the curiosity and keeping an eye on my internet's stability, I prefer the graphing of MSI Afterburner on my second monitor. HWiNFO's graph doesn't look as good and I can make MSI Afterburner's look dark enough that it doesn't feel like it's intruding on my vision when looking at my gaming monitor.

MSI Afterburner is fun because one can fill a secondary screen with graphs in a single window, if there's one thing I miss from HWInfo64 it's this one. Sadly it can't access all sensors and screwing up the GPU is too easy :D Ordering the graphs is also quite a headache, editing the cfg is easier than scrolling through the list.

Been using HWI for years...Little late to the party Jay...lol Welcome to the club

Better late than never Jay, welcome aboard the Hwinfo train. I’ve always used hwinfo because it displays more detailed power sensors that’s really useful on laptop, and the only time I had issues was using their taskbar temperature display on a Zen 3+ laptop where something about the software was preventing the laptop from going to sleep and causing it to bsod

Storage engineer here but may still be wrong, pretty sure drive available spare are extra spots it can write data in reserve and swap out as other parts of the cells become worn or have issues

I keep my hwinfo64 always on top while gaming. If kept as a smallish window, it can be unobstructive off to the side of the screen in a corner of your choosing and replaces overlays like rtss since it tracks more sensors and can be customized in any order. For me, usually temps are what I have visible while gaming. I like to see the changes as the games call for more or less power. When I need to see voltages, clock speeds and even check if my fan speeds are going at the level i want, i just expand the window. Sometimes afterburner will throttle my gpu fan. Not too often, but once in awhile. And I can quickly see and correct the problem when it does. What also becomes apparent with this tool is when you undervolt or set power limits in the bios or xtu. Your custom settings will be reflected in their respective rows in this tool. Great to check if your xmp is indeed enabled from your last reset. Or that you indeed have your intended PL1 and PL2 parameters in place. If more users were instructed to monitor their sensors during the recent intel debacle, they’d see that default settings (no voltage cap and 4096W) were seriously pushing them close to 90-100C temps while gaming. And would have had the ability to make changes. If you are a casual user and don’t use sensors like this, you simply don’t know that there’s anything wrong and will continue to use an overheated computer.

Man, I’ve been using some variant of this since 2006. Such a versatile tool!

Thank you so much for putting this video together. This was immensely helpful!!

I prefer Libre Hardware Monitor myself, program is nearly identical however it's fully open source and free, and has a nice graphing option that can be turned on for any and all fields that it monitors.

Head straight to the VR VOUT sensor! Since it’s a Gigabyte board, you should definitely have one (even some of the lower-end Gigabyte models do, like the Aorus Elite AX and upwards). This sensor gives you a direct reading from the CPU die sense, reported via the voltage controller. It’s the most accurate voltage reading you'll get without breaking out an oscilloscope and directly probing the CPU. It's also the best way to check if you're being overvolted and makes LLC tuning way more fun!

Given this is the subject of a monetized video that makes it commercial use, please do the right thing and buy a lifetime license for this product.

Yo, Jay finally RIP'd Hwmonitor. that's crazy.

Been using this since the intel stuff. But also used it to diagnose my old pc which was crashing after I put in a new 2TB bare nvme. The temps of the nvme reached 80 degrees. Once I put the nvme in a cooling enclosure the temps never went above 40 and never crashed again.

Jay, HWinfo64 can use the Elgato Streamdeck to display system info. I use it to monitor temps, vram usage, etc.

Also I'll add that HWiNFO is not very recommended if you have Corsair RAM with RGB or anything that is iCUE related. HWiNFO polls more agressively but also a whole lot more sensors than HWMonitor. The problem is that with iCUE and their RGB RAM, the RGB RAM may be lost in the software eventually after extended periods of running time due to sensor conflicts, this does not happen with HWMonitor. Only way to get the RAM controllable again is rebooting as iCUE has lost the plot. It may potentionally even lead to Corsair Link not reporting info anymore til reboot for a Corsair digital PSU. Corsair really needs to step up their software game, and haven't ever gotten something properly stable out there.

Love ya Jay! Keep up the awesome content!

Bro. I just installed Libre Monitor because you said it was the best. Now THIS is the best and always has been? LOL Just playing. I try everything. Keep up the awesome work!

ive always used it and its the best thing to check/keep up with all your temps and stuff even network/io speeds

Hey Jay, totally unrelated I just want to say I love your content and I've been passionate about computers for years. I'm still running a desktop that a friend of mine and I built together many years ago. He passed away a few years back and I haven't wanted to upgrade for nostalgia sake but I'm finally ready. I bought a motherboard you recommended and I'm going to start there. Currently running an I7 950.. gigabyte 1366 board.. ddr3.. yatta yatta.. anyway long winded but thanks again and I always appreciate the help since my friend was always my go to guy for knowledge.

I just did all of this last night for comparing Fortnite performance mode settings vs d3d12, using GPU-Z though! I'll have to try this, didn't know you could enable more sensors by starting programs in a different order, nice touch there. In Excel I isolate the portion of the data under load, chopping off the first and last minute or so and create average functions at the bottom of each column to quickly determine the average temps and clock speeds and loads across each setting. Will have to try again with framerate data logging now!

Been using this for the past like 8 months, hands down the best monitoring software there is

Or if you're on KDE Plasma, just open System Monitor, add a new page and all these sensors can be tracked at will.

Stream Deck has a plugin witch enable you to view different data on the it, when the shared memory support it enable.

I’m surprised it took this long before you used this software gem, Jay.

I'd have bet a fitty that it was your own previous content that drove me to use this hwinfo64 4-7 years ago. Huh. Anyway, for multi monitor users, don't forget to UNCHECK the option to detect monitor positions or it'll bounce back to the primary monitor on sleep wake.

It also will read the data from the Aquaero which is nice to get aggregated into one UI

If you run icue, disable the icue/asetk in the settings.

i really would love to know how you have such a smoooooooth running pc honestly lol

Maybe I missed that part, but did you install the app or just use the portable version? What would be the pros and cons of each?

Yeah I swapped to this awhile ago, I laughed when you tried other options because I knew you'd get here eventually

The best thing is having sensors active all the time right there on the taskbar. Fantastic to monitor. I'm just sad this isn't made for Linux.

does showcasing it on your channel constitute commercial use?

ahh 11:00 cool, didn't know that, thank you

ABOUT DAMN TIME! Now get your coolant, CPU, and GPU individual temps in the task bar (colored coded to brand), use this to tune curve optimizer with AMD, check network speed, check for WHEA errors in memory overclocking, and everything else under the sun... Instead of hiding (Shift+Del) the with the right click option, you can retract the info you don't want listed with the drop down arrow, nice to have on hand, then you don't have to worry about what you have hidden if you need it later. Information is evolution!

It's a fantastic utility, on my old alienware M17x R4 it even allowed controlling the fanspeed :D

*JayzTwoCents found America...* *...like Columbus.* 🤣

Isnt a youtuber who gets paid for his content, considered a commercial use case Jay ? i think you may be breaking the terms of the license agreement.

Jay “it’s free to use unless you’re using it tooooooo….. monitor data centers (RU-vid videos don’t count because I should get everything free)”

Hwinfo64 + Rainmeter = ooooo so fancy.

Just wanted to point out that you use it for commercial use and would require a license.