Filed under: Utilities, Hardware, Windows
SpeedFan
by Ryan Carter Oct 14th 2006 at 1:38PM
There have been several times in my computing career when a power supply or other component has died on me. When something is going wrong in your PC, it is good to know what is going on inside the box. You can get out your candy thermometer (or your significant other's I suppose) to test for PC component temperature or a great program to help test your systems heat and other PC vital functions is SpeedFan. This tiny app is great, giving you vital info on heat, fan speed, hard disk fan speed, and other information you may need in the process of troubleshooting. SpeedFan won't give you info on every component, but it certainly helps when troubleshooting heat issues. It has some features that over-clockers would make more use of, though I haven't tested them out yet.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Safety Ed said 9:22PM on 10-14-2006
This is great. I’ve been waiting for an app to do exactly this.
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p337 said 9:22PM on 10-14-2006
"candy thermometer" mmm sticky.
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chris said 1:30AM on 10-15-2006
anything like this for osx?
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Logix said 10:08AM on 7-29-2007
Does this come for Linux?
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