Unusually for a gadget, this one offers quite a few options, including displaying the clock speed in gigahertz, changing colors, enabling items to display, and configuring the graphs. Beneath this were three graph lines coded in different colors-one each for each core's temperature, load, and activity, plus another for RAM use-and at the bottom a moving graph displayed the data. It displayed our processor data in a compact but colorful view that included the CPU maker's logo. We minimized Core Temp and turned to the gadget. Core Temp identified our processor by model, platform, frequency, VID, Revision, CPUID, and Lithography standard as well as number of cores and threads and each core's temperature and load. Core Temp Gadget simply displays data from Core Temp in an unobtrusive desktop gadget.Ĭore Temp doesn't have to be running to download and install Core Temp Gadget, but the utility must be running to port data to the gadget.
Core Temp is a small, free application that extracts critical data from sensors and displays it in a compact interface. To use it, you must have ALCPU's Core Temp installed and running. Core Temp Gadget is a free Windows gadget that displays the temperature and load of your CPU's cores as well as basic information about your processor and platform.
