Cpu Monitoring Program

ok i got the alienware finally and ive had it for about a week and a half

so now i want to take real good care of this system keep it stable on every aspect so im asking you guys

whats the best program to monitor my CPU e.g ram usage temperature , the whole nine yards basically and im willing to pay for the program *wink*

heres my specs just incase

alienware area 51 7500

Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
4096MB DDR2 400.0 MHz
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

and yes its on vista

 

I use this http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.asp...e5-157bd66ca5af BUT you can monitor just as well with the proformance maintenance that built in. Plus it doens't show temp either. Some people complain it "Lags". But I have not seen it. Only reason I like it is to watch both my processors work at the same time.

 

i disabled sidebar and got objectdock lol , sidebar is ugly as a mother------er

 

haha alrighty. I'm not going to suggest something that I have not tried.

 

everest ultimate:
http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.p...=UE&lang=en

you can view anything on your pc and in your pc, from drivers to temperatures to usage, i'm using it too it also displays small icons on the startbar so you can see it always :

 

buying *WINK* it right now

 

it works nice even tho im still getin used to it

 

for monitoring RAM and CPU usage, press ctrl+shift+esc. Pretty much the ebst way of doing it. and it works so damn well in vista too.

for CPU temperature, download core temp
http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/

 

For complete monitoring I recommend everest.

*Laughs at ddr2 speed*

 

i hope he meant internal clock speed and not MT/s as well

DDR2-400 is absolute garbage.
DDR2-800 is OK depending

 

I think it's 200MHz DDR2, DDR2 400 Effective. E4500 has 800MHz Bus. Ram is probably running 1:1.

 

if that's the case they put in the lowest quality stuff available. Heck I haven't seen DDR2-400 on sale for year. Stuff in my system can do 3x the speed.

 

I've seen it before, most in server configs.

 

servers use FBDIMMS and in them the low clock speed might be a feature as it reduces heatout and the need for cooling. lower electric bill. Depends on the type of server though.
either that or it's DDR1...

I do think he's referring to raw switching speed though and not the rate of data transfers

 

We hope he is anyways...
lolz i cant even buy 400 here...been off the shelves for a while, 667 has become sub-standard, 800 the norm and 1066 for gamers