How to Check CPU Temperature in Windows OS

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There are 3 basic ways to measure the temperature of CPU and motherboard:

Through the BIOS
Through motherboard software or
Through other third party software.

The first choice is not operating system dependent, it does not matter whether your computer operating system is Windows or Linux or any other operating system. But for the other choices you have to select suitable software to measure the CPU temperature.

Through the BIOS

You must have to enter the BIOS of your computer. At first power on your computer, if you are already powered on of your computer, then you have to restart your computer.

Press Del key or F2 key to Enter BIOS. it is mentionable that there are several types of motherboard. To access BIOS, some motherboard requires Del key, others require F2 key or other type of key.
After accessing BIOS, navigate to PC Health Status or System Health or Sensor or something similar.
From here, you can easily figured out CPU temperature, motherboard temperature or system temperature etc.

Through motherboard software

Every motherboard has at least one CD which contains the drivers software or other necessary software of your computer. If you don’t have the CD, you may download them form the Internet.

The motherboard CD typically contains some extra software. One of them are the motherboard monitoring software, CPU temperature monitoring software, fan speed monitoring software etc. Just install it and then you can easily monitor to CPU temperature or motherboard temperature or system temperature.

Through other third party software

There is an alternate to check your CPU temperature. The solution is that by using another third party software. You don’t need to restart your computer. So, it’s very easy to do. I will tell you some of those software names and some little description of them.

1. CPUID HWMonitor

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.

The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature.

Download CPUID HWMonitor software

Download CPUID HWMonitor

2. Everest – Everest Home Edition

EVEREST Home Edition is a free system diagnostics, system information and benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.

Download Everest Home Edition

3. SpeedFan

SpeedFan allows you to have a deeper view of the status of your computer. Almost every computer includes support for hardware monitoring. If you are trying to figure out why your pc hangs when under heavy load or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you to find the real cause.

Very often it is a poor power supply, or an improperly installed heatsink that lead to behaviours that we tend to associate with errors from the operating system, but that are not. SpeedFan automatically searches your computer for interesting chips: the hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can expose voltages, fan speeds and temperatures. On rare occasions, the BIOS doesn’t activate such features.

SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise.