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Ah, these two titans. If you’ve spent any amount of time in the world of benchmarking, stress-testing your PC, or even if you’re just curious about how toasty that Ryzen 9 7950X is getting, you’ll have no doubt heard of HWMonitor and HWiNFO.
On the surface, they serve a very similar purpose. Their job, as much as it is, is to tie into the mass of sensors that litter your motherboard and supporting components, reporting on all manner of temperatures, voltages, and clock speeds that your OS and system need to know about. At
