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Latest v7.04 (Released on May-18-2021)
  • Added Automatic Update capability [Pro only].
  • Fixed automatic creating of report files when Sensor-only mode is enabled.
  • Fixed some minor GUI glitches in sensor list.
  • Added monitoring of Memory Controller Gear Mode for Intel Ice Lake and later CPUs.
  • Improved support of Ice Lake-SP.
  • Added support of Intel VROC RAID drives.
  • Added monitoring of Noise sensor on GIGABYTE Z590 series.
  • Added support of Raptor Lake-S PCH.
  • Added monitoring of VCCIO2 on MSI Z490 series with Rocket Lake CPU.
  • Added preliminary support of some ASUS Z690 and MAXIMUS XIV series.
  • Fixed displaying of localized license names.
  • Fixed reporting of some capabilities on Tiger Lake-H.
  • Added monitoring of CPU PLL, CPU Standby or VDDCR_SOC on some ASRock mainboards.
  • Fixed reporting of IMC Gear mode on Alder Lake.
  • Added workaround for reporting of DDR5 modules with wrong CRC.
  • Fixed monitoring of Vcore on ASRock Z490 AQUA, W480 Creator and Z590 Taichi.
  • Improved support of Zhaoxin Kaixian CPUs.
  • Enhanced reporting of some memory timings.
  • Improved Dark Mode appearance in main window.
  • Enhanced monitoring of additional Intel NUC systems.
  • Added AMD Radeon RX 6600 and 6600 XT.

 

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Latest v7.06 (Released on Jul-06-2021)
  • Added LHR variants of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti.
  • Fixed reporting of memory clock and some other parameters on Rocket Lake 6c/4c.
  • Enhanced early support of some Zen4-based systems.
  • Added workaround for systems with stuck SMBus causing large delays.
  • Added VRM monitoring on ASRock Z590 Extreme, Z590 Phantom Gaming 4, H570 Phantom Gaming 4, H570 Steel Legend, B550 Extreme4, B550 PG Velocita.
  • Added several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti card models.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on GIGABYTE X570S series.
  • Added option to use RFC 3339 or ISO 8601 date formats for sensor logging.
  • Added support of Intel XMP 3.0 for DDR5.
  • Added per-core temperature monitoring for AMD Zen CPUs.
  • Added support of PCI Express Revision 6.0.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI X570S series.

 

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Latest v7.10 (Released on Aug-31-2021)
  • Added reporting of Secure Boot support capability.
  • Added monitoring of IOD (IO Die) hotspot and average temperature on AMD Zen2 and later CPUs.
  • Fixed monitoring of some MSI X570S series mainboards.
  • Added reporting of CPPC order for AMD Renoir and later APUs.
  • Improved Tj,max reporting on some AMD Zen CPUs.
  • Changed high temperature warning limit from Tj,max-10 to Tj,max-5 ºC.
  • Improved rounding of DDR4/DDR5 nCK parameters.
  • Added support of Aquacomputer Leakshield.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on NZXT N7 Z590.
  • Improved support of AMD Navi23.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS ProArt X570-CREATOR.
  • Fixed monitoring of some GIGABYTE X570S series mainboards.
  • Improved DDR5 SPD readout.
  • Added monitoring of Average Active Core Count for AMD Ryzen 2xxx and later series.
  • Updated EVGA ICX3 monitoring on GPUs with new firmware.
  • Improved support of some future AMD CPU generations.
  • Added preliminary support of some future AMD GPUs.
  • Added monitoring of static PL1/PL2 power limits.
  • Added option to write sensor log directly to disk.

 

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Latest v7.12 (Released on Oct-04-2021)
  • Added a darker (black) Dark Mode skin.
  • Increased font and window size of the summary window.
  • Updated summary window for improved support of Hybrid CPUs.
  • Changed core naming in Hybrid CPUs to better reflect the type.
  • Added a workaround for missing CPU clocks on AMD CPUs with Core Isolation / Memory Integrity enabled.
  • Fixed a possible crash when opening sensor settings multiple times.
  • Added support of Alder Lake-N.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on some ASUS MAXIMUS, STRIX, TUF, ProArt, PRIME Z690 and B660 series.
  • Added ability to define a custom range for invalid sensor values.
  • Redesigned Summary window.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI Z690 and B660 series.
  • Added readout of DDR5 SPD via I3C on Sapphire Rapids (preliminary).
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on GIGABYTE Z690, B660 and H610 series.
  • Added monitoring of CPU Utility – same utilization as reported by Task Manager in Windows 8 and later.

 

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Here is a snip of the new UI--now that's what I call: black! Loads quickly, displays clearly and all the additional features I need are easily accessed. Quite possibly close to the perfect hardware monitor.

Plus, the developer is one of the nicest I've come across. (y)

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Here is a snip of the new UI--now that's what I call: black! Loads quickly, displays clearly and all the additional features I need are easily accessed. Quite possibly close to the perfect hardware monitor.

Plus, the developer is one of the nicest I've come across. (y)

Thank goodness you are using the metric system to measure temps and not the wrong one. :p j/k
 

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Latest v7.14 (Released on Oct-29-2021)
  • Added initial support of Raptor Lake-S and Raptor Lake-P.
  • Changed layout of DDR5 DIMM sensors to one sensor per DIMM.
  • Added monitoring of several parameters for each DDR5 DIMM.
  • Fixed reporting of voltage offset set via V/F curve for Intel CPUs.
  • Added reporting of voltage/frequency curve setting for Intel CPUs.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on some ASRock Z690 series.
  • Added reporting of Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity (HVCI) setting.
  • Enhanced support of next-generation AMD APUs.
  • Added graph Auto Fit feature.
  • Minor fixes for Alder Lake support.
  • Fixed monitoring of Aquacomputer Quadro and Octo with new firmware.
  • Added reporting of AMX support in summary.
  • Improved monitoring of DDR5 PMIC parameters.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on EVGA X570 FTW and X570 DARK.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on EVGA Z690 CLASSIFIED and Z690 DARK KINGPIN.
  • Changed reporting of Memory Command Rate to not depend on Gear Mode.
  • Fixed swapped GPU Right/Ext fan on EVGA iCX with new firmware.
 

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Latest v7.16 (Released on Dec-21-2021)
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-I, PRIME Z690-P, PRIME Z690M-PLUS.
  • Improved monitoring of D3D usage.
  • Fixed recognition of down-cored Alder Lake CPUs.
  • Added monitoring of L3 Cache temperatures and clocks for AMD Zen CPUs.
  • Optimized EC communication on ASUS Z690 series mainboards.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock Z690 AQUA, B660M Pro RS, B660M-HDV, H610M series.
  • Updated kernel driver for compatibility with HVCI.
  • Fixed reporting of Total Host/NAND Reads/Writes for some drives.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI MEG Z690 GODLIKE, H670, B660 and H610 series.
  • Added preliminary Intel Granite Rapids support.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock H670, B660 and H610 series.
  • Added monitoring of Raspberry Pi running Windows on ARM.

 

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Latest v7.20 (Released on Feb-15-2022)
  • HWiNFO64 ported to UNICODE.
  • Enhanced Intel XMP 3.0 Revision 1.2 support.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on some ASRock B660 and H610 series.
  • Enhanced support of future AMD AM5 platforms.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS B660, H670 and H610 series.
  • Initial localization to 24 languages.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12GB.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock Z690 Steel Legend/D5.
  • Added support of Nuvoton NCT6799D.
  • Added ability to override embedded language file by using a custom lang.txt file.

 

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Latest v7.22 (Released on Mar-30-2022)
  • Improved support of AMD Ryzen 6000 series.
  • Added monitoring of next-generation AMD chipset temperature.
  • Added option to disable validation of window positions.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on Intel NUC12 series.
  • Added NVIDIA GH100, GH202, AD102, AD103, AD104, AD106, AD107, GB100, GB102.
  • Added reporting of ASIC Quality for AMD Vega and Navi discrete GPUs.
  • Added fan speed monitoring on ASUS FA506 series.
  • Improved support of next-generation AMD CPUs/APUs and GPUs.
  • Added monitoring of video decoder and encoder usage on AMD Navi GPUs.
  • Fixed monitoring of some EVGA EC sensors.
  • Fixed Intel Arc graphics badge.
  • Added option to disable snapping of sensor windows.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
  • Fixed MHTML report.
  • Updated HTML and MHTML reports to use UTF-8 encoding.
  • Added reporting of ASIC Manufacturer for NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Updated several languages.

 

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Latest v7.24 (Released on May-12-2022)
  • Improved support of next-generation AMD CPUs and APUs.
  • Improved monitoring of NZXT Kraken coolers when started before CAM.
  • Improved support of dual-socket AMD EPYC systems.
  • Added Glenfly Tech GF ARISE GPU.
  • Improved support of Alder Lake-PS (IoT).
  • Improved support of Intel Arc GPUs.
  • Added support of Nuvoton NCT7491.
  • Added monitoring of PL1 and PL2 limits on Intel GPUs.
  • Added more Intel Arc graphics models.
  • Added AMD Radeon RX 6400.
  • Added AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT, 6750 XT, 6950 XT.

 

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This program is free to use (which is wonderful) but has anyone noticed there is now a partnership with a driver updater? If you click the little computer icon at the lower right, your browser will open to the DriverFix/Driver Updater page.

It seems this has been going on since at least v. 6.42 (earlier?--didn't check back that far). Well, if it helps to fund his project, I guess that's a good thing. Also, it's very subtle--not in your face, which is a classy move on the dev's part.

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Sorry to clutter this thread, though. :unsure: :coffee:
 

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Latest v7.26 (Released on Jun-21-2022)
  • Improved support of Intel Arc GPUs.
  • Added several new GPU models.
  • Fixed a potential race condition between sensors and summary screen.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS CROSSHAIR X670E and STRIX X670E series.
  • Fixed a possible crash when scanning some ASMedia SATA controllers/drivers.
  • Reduced minimum sensor polling period to 20 ms.
  • Added monitoring of Thermal Limit percentage for AMD Zen.
  • Fixed missing CPU Utility and GPU D3D Usage on some non-English Windows systems.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI H610M series.
  • Added NVIDIA RTX A500, A1000, A2000 8GB, A3000 12GB, A4500, A5500 Laptop.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM, GeForce MX570 A.
  • Improved support of AMD Genoa, Bergamo, MI300 (A/C).
  • Added preliminary support of AMD Turin, Strix Point, Granite Ridge.
  • Improved support of Intel Sapphire Rapids.
  • Fixed monitoring of VRM temperature on some ASUS Z690 mainboards without EC.
  • Improved reporting of memory clock on AMD Cezanne and later APUs.
 

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Latest v7.30 (Released on Sep-20-2022)
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on some MSI X670 and B650 series.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS Pro WS W790E-SAGE.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on some ASUS Z790 series.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on GIGABYTE X670 and B650 series.
  • Enhanced support of AMD RDNA3 GPUs.
  • Enhanced support of Intel Arc GPUs.
  • Fixed some bugs in sensor settings GUI.
  • Optimized registry writes for HWiNFO Gadget.
  • Improved fan speed monitoring on some ASUS notebooks.
  • Fixed auto-starting HWiNFO when located in folder with non-English characters.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on GIGABYTE Z790 and B760 series.
  • Added reporting of GPU Maximum Clock (Limit) and Firmware Version for Intel Arc GPUs.
  • Switched to a new method for calculating BCLK on AMD Zen CPUs.
  • Added precise clock reporting in eCLK1 mode on ASUS X670 series.
  • Added Raptor Lake-S PCH SMBus support.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI Z790 and B760 series.
  • Improved NUMA-awareness.
  • Added VRM monitoring on some MSI Z590/Z690/Z790 series.
  • Improved recognition of VR13 and SVI3 PWM controllers.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on some ASRock X670 series mainboards.
  • Added reporting of DDR5 DRAM Die revision.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock Z790 and B760 series mainboards.
  • Added monitoring of Corsair HX1000i and HX1500i PSUs (2021 models).

 

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Latest v7.32 (Released on Nov-01-2022)
  • Added reporting of Core Performance Order and PBO Scalar for AMD Raphael.
  • Added monitoring of Energy Performance Preference for later AMD APUs.
  • Fixed reporting of CPPC order on systems with gaps in APIC IDs.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS X670 series.
  • Fixed a possible hang during USB enumeration when Xbox 360 is connected.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on EVGA Z790 series.
  • Fixed a rare case when Nuvoton NCT6799 sensor might not be found.
  • Added early support of some AMD Zen5 families.
  • Enhanced support of Intel Meteor Lake and Granite Rapids.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock X670E series.
  • Enabled VRM monitoring on some ASRock mainboards.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS B650 and Z790 series.
  • Added hovering delay for sensor tooltips.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on Intel 13th Gen NUC series.
  • Added monitoring of GPU Thermal Limit for NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Added monitoring of GIGABYTE AORUS P1200W PSU.
  • Updated translations for several languages.
 

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Latest v7.34 (Released on Dec-07-2022)
  • Extended Shared Memory Interface to expose UTF-8 encoded strings.
  • Fixed Remote Monitoring with localized sensor names.
  • Added monitoring of Fan Intake Temperature on AMD Navi31.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080.
  • Added highlighting of changing sensor values.
  • Added support of NZXT Kraken X63 new models.
  • Added support of Intel Emerald Rapids.
  • Enhanced support of AMD Navi3X.
  • Added several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 and 4080 card models.
  • Fixed reporting of Command Rate on AMD AM5 systems.
  • Added monitoring of additional temperatures on ASUS MAXIMUS Z790 HERO/APEX.
  • Improved sensor tooltip.
  • Added Ukrainian language.
 

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Latest v7.36 (Released on Jan-11-2023)
  • Improved support of AMD Threadripper PRO (Chagall).
  • Improved sensor tooltips.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS ProArt B650-CREATOR.
  • Fixed reporting of Front End Clock on AMD Navi 3x.
  • Improved consistency of sensor polling interval.
  • Added monitoring of aging data on ASUS Z690, Z790 and X670E series.
  • Changed default font in sensors for CJK languages.
  • Added monitoring of MSI MEG Ai1000P and Ai1300P PSUs.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti.
  • Added monitoring of System Fan 7/8 on GIGABYTE X670E series.
 

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Latest v7.40
Released on Feb-21-2023
  • Added fan speed monitoring on MSI Raider GE67HX, Titan GT77 and some others.
  • Added monitoring of GPU SOC clock on AMD Navi3x.
  • Improved sensor monitoring on some ASUS and ASRock mainboards.
  • Added fan speed monitoring on SANTECH G69/Clevo X170KM.
  • Added VRM monitoring on GIGABYTE Z690, Z790 and X670, B650 series.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop and RTX 4060 Laptop.
  • Added NVIDIA RTX 3500, 3000, 2000 Ada Laptop.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS H770 and B760 series.
  • Added AMD Radeon RX 7600M, 7600M XT, 7600S, 7700S.
  • Improved support of next-generation AMD Threadripper.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS Pro WS W790-ACE and Pro WS W790E-SAGE SE.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock W790 WS.
  • Added Moore Threads MTT S30, S50, S60, S70, S80, S3000 GPUs.
  • Added driver information for monitor.
  • Improved reporting of current memory clock for Intel Alder Lake and later CPUs.
 

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Latest v7.42 (Released on Mar-30-2023)
  • Added reporting of PMIC Validation and DIMM Certification status for XMP 3.0 rev1.3+.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop.
  • Fixed monitoring of some EC sensors on EVGA Z790 series.
  • Enhanced support of AMD Phoenix.
  • Enhanced sensor monitoring on some MSI H510M, H610M and A620M series.
  • Improved reporting of Intel HDA sound drivers.
  • Added limited monitoring of Intel Arc GPUs without drivers installed (oneAPI, IGCL).
  • Added monitoring of Corsair H100i Elite White and H150i Elite White.
  • Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop.
  • Added option for creating report files in UTF-8 format.
  • Added monitoring of Corsair Commander CORE, CORE XT, ST.
  • Added preliminary support of Arrow Lake-S.
  • Updated monitoring with AMD Adrenalin 23.3.2.
 

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