Download Open Hardware Monitor 0.2.1 Beta

Open Hardware Monitor is an open source program with which the hardware in a computer can be monitored. Support is present for a large number of monitoring chips found in motherboards, processors, video cards and hard drives. The download is only 279KB in size and, remarkably, it can be used on Windows and Linux machines. Both version 0.20 beta and 0.21 beta were released last Saturday and the changelog for both versions can be found below.

Version 0.2.1 Beta

• Fixed a missing assembly problem on .NET Framework 4.0.
• Reduced the number of referenced assemblies.

Version 0.2.0 Beta

• New desktop gadget (enable with “View / Show gadget”).
• Added bus and core clock sensors for AMD K8 and K10 CPUs.
• Added support for the Alphacool Heatmaster fan controller.
• Added support for the ITE IT8721F super I/O chip.
• Added a fan control sensor for ATI GPUs.
• Added an ISA bus mutex for accessing the super I/O chips.
• Added a mainboard specific configuration for the ASRock 880GMH/USB3, ASUS P6X58D-E, ASUS Rampage Extreme, ASUS Rampage II GENE, ECS A890GXM-A, Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 and Gigabyte P55M-UD4.
• Improved the stability of reading and writing the settings file.
• Added an option to minimize when the close button is clicked.
• Reimplemented the GUI menus using the native Windows menus.
• Improved a few optical details of the GUI.
• Added support for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
• Refactored the hardware monitoring code into a library.
• Fixed a few problems where the Open Hardware monitor would crash.
• Added SMART data and details of AMD CPUs to the report.