Hopefully, you can get a general estimate of how well your CPU is being cooled.This article helps you identify the cause of sustained high CPU usage. We could write a book about monitoring CPU temperatures, but in the interest of keeping this easy to follow, we’ll leave it at that.

How old is your computer? If it’s more than a few years old, it may not be supported by programs like Core Temp.

If you have a very new CPU, you may need to wait for an update to the program. Download the latest version to see if it fixes the problem.

If you’re using an old version of Core Temp, for example, it may not support your CPU, in which case it won’t provide an accurate temperature (or possibly won’t even provide a temperature at all). Make sure your programs are up-to-date.Core temperature is usually what you want to monitor, as we mentioned above. Make sure you’re comparing apples to apples. Are you looking at the right sensors? If two programs don’t agree, it’s possible-especially on AMD machines-that one program is reporting the “Core temperature” and one is reporting the “CPU temperature”.If the icon is only appearing in the pop-up tray and you want to see it at all times, just click and drag it onto your taskbar. We recommend the “highest temperature” (instead of “all cores”, which will show multiple icons.) You can also customize the font and colors here. Notification Area > Notification Area Icons: This allows you to customize how Core Temp appears in your notification area (or system tray, as it’s commonly called.) You can choose to display just the app’s icon or display the temperature of your CPU.

Display > Hide Taskbar Button: Again, if you’re going to leave it running all the time, this is good to turn on so it doesn’t waste space on your taskbar.

Display > Start Core Temp minimized: You’ll probably want to turn this on if you have “Start Core Temp with Windows” on.

But if you only need the app occasionally, it’s okay to turn this off. Turning it on will allow you to monitor your temperatures at all times without having to remember to start it up.

General > Start Core Temp with Windows: You can turn this on or off it’s up to you.

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