What is a good hardware monitor?

Question

Does anyone have a good freeware app for monitoring laptop hardware? Things like temperature and fan speed. I had one, but after a few weeks it wanted me to pay.

Answer 1

1. SpeedFan is free and supports a lot of sensors.
   There is also a recent Beta update.

2. I think the non-pro edition of Hardware Sensors Monitor is free too.
   Have not tried it though.

3. Some other interesting tools,

   • GPU-Z current version v0.3.6
   • Real Temp current version 3.00
   • CPUID's HWMonitor

^{while you have not stated your platform, I assume you mean Windows.}

Answer 2

I would like to add cpu-z... I am currently using speedfan and am fairly happy with it (not so great with my Dell laptop)