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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Reviewed by: BMB395
02-11-2008
Duration of ownership: 0 Months
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Overall Evaluation: Obsolete
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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.
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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+
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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.
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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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