How can you know if your notebook is overheating without knowing its temperatures? Well, you can’t. Temperatures give us critical information about the core components of any computer. Moreover, monitoring temperatures is important to the vitality and longevity of your notebook. In this guide we will cover the basics on how to monitor temperatures.

To get the fundamentals of which temperatures are safe and which are dangerous read our guide on overheating.

To monitor your temperatures you will need a temperature monitoring program. Although there are thousands of those programs out there we recommend HWMonitor. HWMonitor is accurate, light on resources and no installation is required.

Start off by downloading HWMonitor.

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Extract the files to your desktop or somewhere easy to access and double click on HWMonitor.exe. A small window similar to the one below should pop up.

HWMonitor will tell you the current temperatures of your notebook components including CPU, GPU, HDD and others. Moreover, it shows the lowest and the highest temperatures reached during a session. To finish a session or reset it, close HWMonitor and reopen it.

Basically, measuring your temperatures with HWMonitor is as simple as it is efficient and keeping track of your temperatures is easy to do. Moreover, it is a critical part of ensuring the longevity and stable performance of your notebook.