How to Find Laptop Temperature Using Reliable Free Tool

It’s very important to know how to find laptop temperature as overheating might cause permanent and costly damages to your PC. And the best thing to keep your laptop to its optimum performance and speed is also by maintaining an ideal temperature.

I am going to introduce 2 of the best free tools available to monitor laptop temperature to prevent it from overheat.

Core Temp (32-bit) 0.99.5

Core Temp is a free standalone free tool to auto find and monitor laptop temperature. Its temperature reading is quite precise as heat information is obtained from Digital Thermal Sensor which is located right on your processing core.

Digital Thermal Sensor doesn’t rely on your motherboard external circuit reading to sense temperature, its reading value is stored in a special register in the processor itself for the software to access making heat reading more reliable.

With Core Temp you are able to know your laptop temperature reading in real time and it shows temperature of each individual core in the tool interface for you to know. It also has a logging feature for you to record temperature data as you wish.

Compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP

Download Free Core Temp (32-bit) 0.99.5 here

SpeedFan 4.40

SpeedFan is another free tool that helps in monitoring laptop temperature in real time. Comparing to Core Temp, SpeedFan is more advance and sophisticated as its pack with more additional features and functions.

Other than reading temperatures of your motherboard and hard disk, it also able change computer’s fan speeds, read voltages and check the status of your hard disk using S.M.A.R.T. or Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology.

SpeedFan is also pack with an advance user features that enables you to change or tweak motherboard clock. Overclocking is a process to boost up computer system to attain higher performance with faster processing speed.

It’s not recommended for normal user to change motherboard clock as it’s usually done by experienced user.

Compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP

Download Free SpeedFan 4.40 here

Popularity: 2% [?]