If you need to keep an eye on the usage of your CPU then PerfMonitor allows you to see what's happening at all times.

PerfMonitor is basically a processor performance monitoring tool which allows you to track the frequency of up to four processes. It can be used to identify performance bottlenecks or to monitor a program that may be hogging your CPU.

There are no fancy touches to this app and it could do with a few more tips as to what the various parameters are. It displays in graphical format - a bit like a graphic equalizer - the activity of your CPU at any one time.

PerfMonitor is a great tool for system administrators or those that need to get to the bottom of a CPU hogging issue.

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CPU-Z is a freeware utility that provides some information on your CPU with which you can identify areas that may be optimized to improve the efficiency of your system. Some of the topics checked by this sofware include:

• Processor name and vendor
• Core stepping and process
• Processor package
• Processor current core voltage
• Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier
• Partial overclock detection
• Processor features, including supported instructions sets
• L1 and L2 cache informations : location, size, speed, technology
• Motherboard informations : BIOS, chipset, memory, AGP

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CrystalCPUID is a utility that analyses your processor and then reports all the details back to you. Among the information you'll find the speed, info about your RAM and memory cache, the name of the processor, its architecture, overclocking percentage, etc.

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SensorsView is a freeware program that monitors temperature of CPU, motherboard, hard disks, voltages, and fan speeds. The application informs you about critical values of any parameters of your system (e.g. about overheating the processor or a stop of fans). You can set a threshold and correction for each parameter.

If the program cannot detect your chip then you can send information on your system (model of motherboard, processor, chipset, etc.) to the developers and they will add support of your chips to the app.

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CPUMon is a simple little gadget to monitor CPU performance from your desktop. It displays a real-time graph of CPU performance as well as current usage indicator. The display supports custom colors, alpha-blending, user defined update rates and more. Some of the features: transparency, alpha-blending, customizable colors, layout presets, form locking, constantly updated CPU speed for Mobile processors, plus Tray Icon mode and Statistics, can also display Memory Usage, etc...

Comes with "Carbonsoft cxCpu Processor Detection Toolkit", which provides: CPU Explorer - detailed CPU information, supports multiple CPUs; CPU Features - lists supported CPU features.

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Multitasking enables you to open many applications simultaneously, although this usually results in many processes hogging the CPU. Sometimes a single active process takes up so many resources that the whole system becomes unstable and may end up freezing.

You can use Process Tamer to prevent these situations. It's a small tool that sits unobtrusively in Windows system tray and controls all active processes. As soon as any of them goes beyond the limits you set in the program's configuration settings, Process Tamer will lower its priority and therefore get the situation back to normal.

The program's options enable you to set the threshold of reaction, which is based only on CPU activity (no RAM memory, for example). You can also set rules and filters applied to specific applications.

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SysTrayMeter allows you control the usage of processor and RAM memory at any given time. You don't have to click anywhere or open any window: just look at your system tray and there you'll see a small colored icon showing those values. Also, hovering your mouse over the icon displays some extended data.

This small tool doesn't require any installation and given its tiny size, it hardly uses system resources, so you may leave it working in the background. As CPU and RAM usage varies, you'll notice color changes which makes the information easier to track.

While this may be enough for users who just want to have a look at CPU and RAM resources from time to time, it falls too short of other similar applications that offer more system data and a wider selection of elements to control.

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Central Brain Identifier is designed to provide detailed identification and obtaining the most complete information about all AMD processors. It recognizes more than 50 various models of the AMD processors.

It shows not only the general information about the processor, but also allows you to determine its important technical features, such as processor core name, core revision, a nominal processor frequency, the date of release, an OPN number, the components of the PowerNow! Technology and also independently computes an XP-Rating for those processors having a model number.

The program is capable of detecting the core voltage of mobile AMD processors and the newest AMD Athlon 64 processor. Advanced recognition methods can accurately determine mobile, desktop and server variants of the AMD processors.

The power diagnostic capabilities provide the most complete information about the processor cache. The program incorporates tweak features such as processor name modification, L1 Cache ECC control and Clock Control Register correction and DRAM timing control. Central Brain Identifier is aggressively aimed to compete with well-known processor diagnostic tools.

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RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level monitoring and on-the-fly adjustment of the CPU performance level on supported CPU models via processor's power management model-specific registers (MSRs). In automatic management mode it continuously monitors the CPU usage level and dynamically adjusts the CPU frequency, throttle and/or voltage level as needed, realizing the "Performance on Demand" concept.

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The ClockGen serie consists in a set of overclocking software that allow to change the clock of some of your system devices on-the-fly : CPU, memory, AGP, PCI Express, PCI. Each of these software is dedicated to one or several motherboards.

ClockGen does not need to be installed. Just unzip all files in the same directory and run ClockGen.exe. Your ClockGen settings will be saved in a file named clockgen.ini stored in your temporary account path (typically : C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temp). If you want to remove this file from your system, run clockgen with the following parameter : ClockGen.exe -u.

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The CPU RightMark suite is meant for objective measurement of performance of modern and future processors in different computational tasks such as numerical modeling of physical processes and solving of 3D graphic problems. It focuses on testing the loaded FPU/SIMD units and the CPU/RAM tandem. As a result, we get pure CPU performance, an objective parameter obtained without the influence of other subsystems, like video and disc systems, except the memory one. It allows us to compare the true performance of different processors irrespective of a type of other system components. It's obtained by dealing only with the CPU and measuring the CPU time spent for execution of computational tasks.

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Use this small utility for speeding up your computer. It works by changing priority of the currently active application, thus it's very useful for concentrating all system resources to process large volumes of complex data.

Key Features:

• Icon in the taskbar's status area
• Hotkeys for showing dialog "Options" and for exiting program
• Select the priority level (all range from min to max)
• Minimal memory and disk space usage
• The program is free

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MCS CPU Benchmark V5 is designed to give you an accurate and consistent assessment of the performance of your processor within a home usage setting. The application is simple to install and run, and comes with a range of neat features including CPU Monitor, CPU Optimizer and processor features. It also displays full information about the CPU and system resources.

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OverSoft CPU Informer is a free utility to quickly and easily see detailed information about your PC's processor.

OverSoft CPU Informer recognizes all types of x86 cpus including newest AMD and Intel dual core cpus, VIA C7 Esther cpu, AMD A64 cores with E revision, Intel Prescott with N0 revision and others. Also CPU Informer can work with most popular LPC SuperIO sensors.

You can export the information as a simple text file (TXT).

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GCPUID is a freeware utility that offers certain information about your CPU.

It can detect what CPU you have, CPU speed, Multiplier and bus speeds, what revision it is and what was the manufacturing process that was used to create the specific processor, also it has support for motherboard monitoring if you have MBM5 installed, and some OS and system information.

Features include:

• Processor and Cache information
• Vendor info
• CPUID
• CPU and Bus speeds
• Instructions sets.
• FID and VID Controls

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