How to Check your CPU's Temperature

Every one of us has faced this issue once in a while or may be even more. Our computer starts acting sluggish and becomes very slow. These are at least the few common symptoms of an overheating CPU. While there could be other reasons for such sluggish behavior, most of the time it just comes down to an overheating CPU. After all there is only so much a system can do. Making it do more than what it was made for, will surely burn up the CPU. Here’s how you can check your CPU’s temperature.

Funny thing, Windows does not have a way that you can check how hot your CPU is getting. That is a quick and easy way. I mean you could always take a peek at the system’s BIOS to get that information, but it seems too much of a hassle to get a look at a simple sensor reading. Thankfully for us there are many programs out there that can help us in checking our CPU’s temperature.

Learning How to Check Your CPU’s Temperature:

The quickest way to check your CPU’s temperature is to use a rightly named program- Core Temp. But word of caution be mindful when installing it as it sometimes downloads bloatware as well. Just remember to uncheck the right boxes and you’ll be fine.

Once you’ve got it installed, you can take a look at your bare CPU and how it stands. On the lower half of the window you’ll get to see the CPU’s average temperature as well. If that’s not enough then you could always click on “Show Hidden Icons” located in the system tray in the windows taskbar to get a better look at what’s happening in your CPU. Every CPU core will have a listing there and you’ll be able to see how each one’s doing in terms of CPU temperature.

Plus with this program installed you can even configure what you see in the window. The default one too is dead simple to use. Core Temp however isn’t the only option in your arsenal in how to find out your CPU’s temperature. There’s HWInfo too. This tool unlike the other one, shows you just about everything pertaining to your computer’s hardware. If that’s too much for you then you can turn on the sensor mode only. To do this you can scroll down to the CPU section.

NZXT’s Cam Software in How to check your CPU’s temperature:

This is one program that is very easy to use. It comes with a user friendly interface and gives you a bunch of useful information about the health of your CPU. Besides that you can also take a look at other things such as the graphics card, memory as well as storage. This program also comes with a mobile app that helps you in keeping tabs on your computer when you’re away too.