Windows CPU gadget

I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor the
CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2 and I
wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of the two?



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On 03/27/2017 02:13 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor
the CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2
and I wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of
the two?



Does it perchance have options to show all cores seperately? and can you
select how many to monitor? I know my drive monitor (size/free space)
has that kinda options.

"Big Al" schreef in bericht
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On 03/27/2017 02:13 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor
the CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2
and I wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of
the two?



Does it perchance have options to show all cores seperately? and can you
select how many to monitor? I know my drive monitor (size/free space)
has that kinda options.




No options, only display small or big...



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In message , Big Al
writes:
On 03/27/2017 02:13 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor
the CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2
and I wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of
the two?



Does it perchance have options to show all cores seperately? and can
you select how many to monitor? I know my drive monitor (size/free
space) has that kinda options.

He said he's using the "standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget". Leaving
aside that gadgets are now deprecated (because I deprecate the sort of
people who use the word "deprecated"), no, it doesn't: the only options
it has are size (small or large), opacity, and always on top.

I think his is a good question; I would _guess_ it's an average, since
that's (I think) what Task Manager does if you choose not to show cores
separately (which is its default). Should be fairly easy to check - open
Task Manager (_in_ its show-cores-separately mode), and do something
that uses one core extensively, and watch both TM and the gadget.
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I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor the
CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2 and I
wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of the two?

There's other gadgets do a better job, Google for them. I use "System
Monitor II" shows a bunch of nice stuff and appears very stable. I also
use "Network Monitor II" by same guy, same full feature set and same
stability.

On 3/27/2017 11:13 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor
the CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2
and I wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of
the two?



What happens when you compare the numbers from the gadget against the
numbers from task manager performance tab?

"mike" schreef in bericht
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On 3/27/2017 11:13 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor
the CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2
and I wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of
the two?



What happens when you compare the numbers from the gadget against the
numbers from task manager performance tab?



The gadget tends to indicate a few points higher than taskmanager.

BTW I don't need a larger gadget taking up space on the desktop.
The brief display is more than enough for monitoring if something is going
on / finished, e.g. updating, or suspicious processes on some web sites etc.



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On 3/27/2017 2:13 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor
the CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2
and I wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of
the two?


The standard Windows CPU speed gadget, CPU Meter, just uses the same
mechanism that the Task Manager uses to display a graph of CPU activity.
As you know with Taskman, you can show either a single overall CPU
activity display, or a per-core display. The CPU Meter uses the overall
activity. The overall activity would be closest to an average of all of
the cores.

If you want gadget that shows individual core activity, then you can
download either Core Temp gadget (along with the Core Temp temperature
monitor utility), or another one available is All CPU Meter.

http://addgadgets.com/all_cpu_meter/

http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Yousuf Khan

On 3/28/2017 6:23 AM, Linea Recta wrote:
"mike" schreef in bericht
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What happens when you compare the numbers from the gadget against the
numbers from task manager performance tab?



The gadget tends to indicate a few points higher than taskmanager.

That's just likely the result of monitoring the CPU on alternate ticks.
Taskman would monitor it at a certain rate, while the CPU Monitor gadget
would monitor at another rate, or offset by a little bit from Taskman.

Yousuf Khan

On 3/27/2017 11:37 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) scribbled:
In message , Big Al writes:
On 03/27/2017 02:13 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
I have the standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget on my desktop, to monitor
the CPU use, wether something is going on. Now, I have a pentium core 2
and I wonder which core gets monitored? Or does it show the average of
the two?



Does it perchance have options to show all cores seperately? and can
you select how many to monitor? I know my drive monitor (size/free
space) has that kinda options.

He said he's using the "standard Windows CPU / RAM gadget". Leaving
aside that gadgets are now deprecated (because I deprecate the sort of
people who use the word "deprecated"), no, it doesn't: the only options
it has are size (small or large), opacity, and always on top.

I think his is a good question; I would _guess_ it's an average, since
that's (I think) what Task Manager does if you choose not to show cores
separately (which is its default). Should be fairly easy to check - open
Task Manager (_in_ its show-cores-separately mode), and do something
that uses one core extensively, and watch both TM and the gadget.
yup, its under view on the menu bar...

you might want to try this one,
http://addgadgets.com/all_cpu_meter/