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AMD Overdrive Utility VS Lm-Sensors

Compare AMD Overdrive Utility VS Lm-Sensors and see what are their differences

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AMD Overdrive Utility logo AMD Overdrive Utility

Personalize your experience with state-of-the-art real-time overclocking*.

Lm-Sensors logo Lm-Sensors

Lm-Sensors is a free and open-source application that provides tools and drivers for monitoring...
  • AMD Overdrive Utility Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-11-28
  • Lm-Sensors Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-20

AMD Overdrive Utility videos

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AMD OverDrive Utility - Before and After Demo

Lm-Sensors videos

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Ubuntu: Fan not detected by lm-sensors

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  • Tutorial - how to: lm-sensors great for overclocking in linux

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to AMD Overdrive Utility and Lm-Sensors)

AMD Overdrive Utility

Lm-Sensors

Monitoring Tools
57 57%
Monitoring Tools
43% 43
OS & Utilities
100 100%
OS & Utilities
0% 0
Device Management
0 0%
Device Management
100% 100
Log Management
73 73%
Log Management
27% 27

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Lm-Sensors seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

AMD Overdrive Utility mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of AMD Overdrive Utility yet. Tracking of AMD Overdrive Utility recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Lm-Sensors mentions (7)

  • laptop overheating
    Can you tell if they spinning at all? I've had many fans just go bad over the years. You might try using lm-sensors to see if you get any helpful info from the OS. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Any software like FanControl?
    There is lm-sensors which has fancontrol. GUI-edition. Source: about 1 year ago
  • How to control fan?
    Https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors did you follow these instructions also? I feel like the im-sensors was an important step. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Security issue regarding ec_sys?
    Thanks, are you talking about https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors ? Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Keyboard + mouse + headphones for FPS games, suggestions?
    OpenRGB required a kernel patch, because it is trying to interface over I2C from userspace and one of the I2C controllers it needed support for didn't have a functional driver in the kernel yet. One of the biggest problems with the I2C bus, is that the kernel misses a lot of drivers for the various I2C controllers because the data sheets are usually not publicly available. This is also why lm-sensors often has... Source: over 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing AMD Overdrive Utility and Lm-Sensors, you can also consider the following products

Process Tamer - Freeware Microsoft Windows utility that monitors the CPU use of applications, alerts when they use too much, and reduces their priority to keep your PC fast.

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

Big Meter Pro - Big Meter Pro is a utility that monitors the disk and memory of your CPU.

Hardinfo - Hardinfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux.

AMD64 CPU Assistant - AMD64 CPU Assistant

SpeedFan - Hardware monitor for Windows that can access digital temperature sensors located on several 2-wire SMBus Serial Bus. Can access voltages and fan speeds and control fan speeds. Includes technical articles and docs.

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