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In this post, I will list 6 free system utilities that can be used to monitor your hardware temperature such as CPU and hard drive.

1. Core Temp

Info: Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.

Core Temp is available for Intel Core and Core 2 processors as well as the whole AMD's Athlon64 line of CPUs only. Older processors are not supported.

2. Fresh Diagnose

Info: Fresh Diagnose is a free utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard drive performance, video system information, mainboard information, and more!

Fresh Diagnose has the option to monitor system temperature. Unfortunately, Fresh Diagnose was unable to detect my system’s sensors, but it may run on your system perfectly. Fresh Diagnose is free, but it requires a free registration in order to get the free license key.

3. HWiNFO32

Info: HWiNFO32 is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. HWiNFO32 is designed to collect and present the maximum amount of system information possible about computer’s hardware which makes it suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufactures, system integrators and technical experts as well. The retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.

HWiNFO32 is much like a free version of Lavalys Everest. The system hardware temperatures can be viewed by clicking the Sensors button.

4. HWMonitor

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed. HWMonitor is very small (1.12MB) and portable without the need to be installed on your system.

5. PC WIZARD

Info: PC WIZARD is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. PC WIZARD 2008 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.

PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.

6. SpeedFan

Info: SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures  in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSBon some hardware.

SpeedFan is very simple and it is designed to monitor your system’s temperature, CPU voltage and many more. SpeedFan can be minimized to the system tray while displaying the temperature value.