How to Monitor All Your System Stats

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How to Monitor All Your System Stats

First off let me start by saying I really love to see all my system stats in one place if possible. I find it very useful and

informative, especially for troubleshooting. Besides, it looks really cool. I have a two monitor setup at home and I keep

all my stats on the bottom of the 2nd monitor. Here's a pic of what it looks like.

It's a combination of some Yahoo widgets and Nvidia system monitor software. The key here is the Nvidia system

monitor software. I'm a big supporter of Nividia, but I wasn't aware of their system software until just recently.

Their software is all the little dark green boxes listed horizontally. As you can see they monitor more than just their video card.

I'm not 100% sure on this but I don't believe you need a Nvidia card to run this software. It would be worth it

to just download it and check it out. They even have a demo video there to show you all its features. I fell in love with

it right away.

Below my Nvidia system monitors are my Yahoo Widgets showing all my drive capacities. The Widget is called Neon Gauges.

You can mouse over this Widget and get more info concerning the selected drive.

Then in the lower left I have my drive activity lights. This a paid program that shows drive activity. Very handy

when your box is located under the desk. You can get it here: http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodriveled/

It's very configurable and quick. Low memory footprint, as are all these monitors. I was unable to find a free piece of

software that fit all my needs.

The other widgets I have listed here check my email, show date and time, as well as a quick reboot and shutdown button.

The memory used after loading all these monitors jumped from around 32% to 38%, but Dual Core systems should have no problem

with this. I haven't felt the effects of these monitors at all. But it definitely helps to have 2 gig of RAM with a Dual Core CPU.

The article describing the Nvidia system monitor claims you can even run these monitors during game play. That makes for

a great benchmarking system.

Well there you have it, if you're a gadget geek like me then this type of setup has to get you excited.

Hope this was informative

GEGeek