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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
175,530
- Operating Systems:
Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
No additional requirements
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
March 27, 2006
Publisher's description of Motherboard Monitor
From Alex van Kaam:Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chips on your motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of chipsets and sensor chip combinations. It can sense temps from CPU, HDD, and GFX. It does also sense fan speeds. If it senses that your hardware is overheated it can protect it by shutting it down (user configured). To see if MBM5 supports your hardware check out the Motherboard List. It does also record all temps and fans for later viewing. This is a great invention if you want to overclock. Example to see how well cooled your computer runs over a time. Full load or idle time. Its recomended for all home built systems. Specially if you make your own heat sinks or just test you newly overclocked CPU or GFX card.
Editor's review of Motherboard Monitor
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- Version reviewed: Motherboard Monitor 5.3.7
Motherboard Monitor's documentation may not explain every detail of the program, but it is safe to call it a sensor monitor for your PC. The interface is a collection of dials, check boxes, and taskbar icons that read data from motherboard CPU temperature and fan speed sensors. While it isn't a mess, it is difficult to accurately predict where to find settings and information.
Setup is not for novices. You first need to know the make and model of your motherboard and then be prepared to answer quite a few questions that may stump even some advanced users. If you've answered everything correctly, Motherboard Monitor places icons on your taskbar. (The icons depend on which sensors are available on your motherboard.)
The program stores data over time and can shut down overheated systems. You can fine tune the program, but the documentation is spotty. On our first test machine, Motherboard Monitor reported the temperature of our CPU and case at the freezing point of water. Adding to the disappointment, the program can't determine if you've input the correct board manufacturer and revision. Many of our test machines had motherboards not recognized by the utility.
If you're an advanced user who has overclocked your system, this program will help monitor your CPU. Everyone else has little use for Motherboard Monitor.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.4 stars out of 35 votes
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Motherboard Monitor 5.3.7
Cons: Spyware alert! "motherboard monitor", get it?
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Motherboard Monitor 5.3.7
Cons: It required way more information than I had about my motherboard to use.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Motherboard Monitor 5.3.7
"Perfect Monitor for all motherboards who does't have its own"
Pros: Motherboard Monitor (MBM) is a cool utility that will display information from the sensor chip on your motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports allmost all Chipsets & Sensor Chip combinations. MBM is compatible with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP (does't works with Vista)
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Version: Motherboard Monitor 5.3.7
Pros: for monitoring the temp. on your mother board this is a great program
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Motherboard Monitor 5.3.7
Pros: it downloaded
Cons: Complex installation, and it frooze my epox mother board
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