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Motherboard Monitor

Version: 5.3.7

Downloads Count: 1,282,541

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Jun 6, 2006

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 9.x, Windows Me

File Size: 1253 KB

Author: Alex van Kaam

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Most recent User Reviews for Motherboard Monitor
  • Reviewed by: DeepField

    09-22-2009

    Duration of ownership: 1 Days

    Strengths: Unknown

    Weaknesses: The program has been discontinued for five years, and is unsupported. I do not understand why PCWorld is recommending it.

    Overall Evaluation: Couldn't get it to recognize my motherboard (it is not in the list, since my PC is old, but newer than the program)

  • Reviewed by: mastergeek

    09-01-2009

    Duration of ownership: 10 Months

    Strengths: It does a great job at monitoring various system components, including temps and fan speeds.

    Weaknesses: It is no longer supported and cannot measure temps on some of today's newer boards and CPUs.

    Overall Evaluation: This is a great piece of software. Also, don't be worried by bbeth's post below (or above, whatever). Software cannot cause a hardware failure. Her harddrive failed, it happens; don't blame it on good software. I do recommend it if you have an old board, like my ABIT AI7 or something similar with an Intel socket 478 Prescott processor. I used it to help me get a good heatsink and keep the temperature in a safe range that won't harm my $200 chip.

  • Reviewed by: bbeth

    08-12-2009

    Duration of ownership: 4 Days

    Strengths: If you have been longing to have your hard-drive hosed up, this product is for you!!!

    Weaknesses: THINK TWICE BEFORE DOWNLOADING!!! My HP would not reboot immediately after installing this program. I could not find the issue (because I couldn't get past the first boot screen), so it is in the repair shop now. They have said the drive is bad, and they are not able to recover my data. This program has caused me BIG problems.

    Overall Evaluation: DOWNLOAD O N L Y if you have first backed up ALL of your data up. Further, I would not recommend this product for novices-Even with the intermediate computer knowledge I have, I am still now unable to resolve the problems Motherboard Monitor has created.

  • Reviewed by: oldgiraffe

    05-26-2009

    Duration of ownership: 1 Weeks

    Strengths: Comprehensive monitoring.

    Weaknesses: As others have said, no support or development but no one suggests an alternatibe!

    Overall Evaluation: Works fine with my old Athlon 1.1Ghz machine. Came into its own when I started to have fan problems and helped identify which one to replace.

  • Reviewed by: papo1987

    04-15-2008

    Duration of ownership: 1 Weeks

    Strengths: Has the ability to perform the tasks that is made for.

    Weaknesses: No support,at least i tried to link in the menu,but it redirect to a unknown not aproved website as my spyware recommeded..

    Overall Evaluation: Is good for general information about motherboards,however in the editor review is not mention that some motherboards can,t be found on the setting.Theinterface is fair and with some practice it culd be better.Remember no support available.s

  • Reviewed by: BMB395

    02-11-2008

    Duration of ownership: 0 Months

    Strengths:

    Weaknesses:

    Overall Evaluation: Obsolete

  • Reviewed by: JRS369

    02-26-2007

    Duration of ownership: 4 Years

    Strengths: Motherboard Monitor is an excellent tool for keeping tabs on the vital signs of your computer's internals. It does an excellent job of reporting these statistics, provided by the sensors already on the motherboard, and does a particularly good job with SCSI HDD temp. sensors!

    Weaknesses: Development has ceased, and it may not work propperly with newer motherboards.

    Overall Evaluation: If you run a high performance workstation, particularly an older one, like I do (circa 2002) then this is the best program I have ever tried, it displays vital statistics in an easily configurable dashboard.

  • Reviewed by: bentrider3

    12-29-2006

    Duration of ownership: 1 Days

    Strengths: This is an excellent program however, since I could not find a motherboard number on my computer, I couldn't utlize the installation. Darn it!

    Weaknesses:

    Overall Evaluation: A+

  • Reviewed by: sail333

    12-01-2006

    Duration of ownership: 1 Days

    Strengths: NONE

    Weaknesses: It disables your computer!

    Overall Evaluation: DO NOT DOWNLOAD!! I ran this and my monitor when black and could not get the computer to reboot. I could not even get the CD drives to open. After letting the computer get cold, I was able to bootup just long enough to restore back to an earlier date. But this was after wasting 2 hours with a Dell tech.

  • Reviewed by: mcmcan

    07-31-2006

    Duration of ownership: 6 Days

    Strengths: none

    Weaknesses: doesn't work with my MachSpeed 939 MB

    Overall Evaluation: Doesn't give me any readings on the dash board

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