A good hardware monitor program?

[Out Of Bubblegum]

I am a little paranoid now. My gaming PC went bad. The motherboard and or CPU and my video card both went bad. I think it was a heat problem and possibly due to the CPU fan stopping. I forget if the BIOS could have monitored those. I had a MB battery failure and reset the CMOS. I forgot to check all the settings afterwards.

I now have an MSI X570-A Pro MB. https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X570-A-PRO
And a new AMD video card.
I do not see any UFEI settings for doing a warning on hardware problems. Maybe AMD or MSI has a monitor program. I want something I can use while gaming that will not hurt performance.

I want something that can create a audible alarm and a pop up warning. Even on a full screen game window.

Suggestions?

[Omega]

If anything was overheating the computer would become noticably slower and even shutdown in a worst case scenario. Heat is unlikely to kill your computer.

[fux]

Hw monitor for everything, core temp for cpu only, msi afterburner + rtss for cpu and gpu with the option to see it in a overlay while gaming. Just to name a few

[_I_]

what was the old build
newer cpus and gpus will throttle before any damage is done
even cpus can run without a heatsink (ihs only) and will throttle to 300-1ghz when the temps reach 90-100c

msi am3/3+/fm and some 77x-1156 boards used bad mosfets that had no temp sendor and would not throttle, they were known to start on fire or die killing the mobo and possibly cpu

if you wan to watch voltages, temps on most devices (mobo, gpu, cpu, ram, drives)
use hwmonitor
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
it logs min/max amd can read most sesnors
mobo sensors may be off (volt, temp, cpu temp sensor is under the socket will never read the same as core temps)
for correct readings you will need to use the mobo software

[Out Of Bubblegum]

I have HW monitor. But I do not see any way to crate an alarm if something goes wrong.
I want to create an audible alarm and a pop up window if something goes very wrong. Even if it has to overlay on a full screen game window. And maybe shut down the PC.

My old PC was an intel i7-5820K and an MSI X99S MB.

The old PC did start crashing before it broke and now will not even post. Before that, Fallout 4 crashed a lot. But I thought it was just the game.

There are black discoloration "burn marks" on the bottom of the copper tubes on my tower heat sink that had a 120mm fan. And that heat sink sat very close to the video card.

[upcoast]

IIRC hardware unboxed rated and reviewed x570 boards with the MSI x570 pro being the worst for vrm cooling.

HWMonitor is free and good.

[Julien, cut it out.]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

I have HW monitor. But I do not see any way to crate an alarm if something goes wrong.
I want to create an audible alarm and a pop up window if something goes very wrong. Even if it has to overlay on a full screen game window. And maybe shut down the PC.

I use HWiNFO, Sensor Settings allows to set a custom alert. Haven't used myself.

For monitoring the GPU, you can use AMD's ingame overlay that reads data from AMD's Wattman, which is integrated in the Radeon Software.

HWiNFO also works with Rivatuner.

[_I_]

which msi x99s?
looks to be about 10 similar models
(plus, sli plis, sli krait, gaming 5, gaming 7, gaming 9, mpower, xpower, xpower ac...)
quick search showed the x99a used nikos (known crap mosfets)
ocn has a x99 vrm thread
https://www.overclock.net/forum/6-intel-motherboards/1518458-x99-vrm-discussion-thread.html

on the new board check bios settings
it can set alarms for when cpu fan fails or is above 90c
iirc nothing for gpus, when they have 2+ fans only 1 fan has its rpm/sense to report back

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Sorry X99S SLI Plus. https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/X99S-SLI-PLUS.html

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Originally posted by _I_:

on the new board check bios settings
it can set alarms for when cpu fan fails or is above 90c

I did look. But that bios gui is very confusing for me. I can't see any way to set alarms.

[_I_]

it should automatically alarm for cpu temp, only on/off settings for cpu fan alarm

edit
https://www.overclock.net/forum/6-intel-motherboards/1518458-x99-vrm-discussion-thread-3.html
mosfets on the top of the board have the heatsink, but no cooling on the back ones
thats asking for problems when overclocking imho

[Out Of Bubblegum]

Ok that is good. Thanks. I wonder if there is a way to add an amplifier or something to make a really loud PC MB speaker.

[upcoast]

Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:

Ok that is good. Thanks. I wonder if there is a way to add an amplifier or something to make a really loud PC MB speaker.

You'd just replace it with an old style 2" case speaker.

[Talby]

I keep a few of these[www.amazon.com] handy, it’s plenty loud once you set up the bios alarms

[Electric Cupcake]

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[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by Talby:

I keep a few of these[www.amazon.com] handy, it’s plenty loud once you set up the bios alarms

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