Lm-Sensors VS iStat Menus

Lm-Sensors Reviews

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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

iStat Menus mentions (53)

• A collection of useful Mac Apps

  iStat Menus - Price: $14.99 (one-time purchase) Advanced system monitor for macOS that displays real-time CPU, GPU, and network usage. Source: 10 months ago

• HELP PLEASE: MAC AIR ULTRA SLOW CPU

  iStat Menus has been around a long time and is very reliable. I've used this for many, many years on numerous different Mac models, and it's top-notch. It displays all sorts of system statistics in the menu bar and lets you define custom fan controls for different component (CPU, etc) temperatures, all in a nice, sleek interface. Source: 10 months ago

• After dreaming of Al Gore's setup for 15 years, finally I got this:

  Don't do this on my behalf but if you're ever curious yourself, on some other date, you can use iStat Menu among other utilities or readers to check GPU utilization, thats a lot easier to read than Activity Monitor. If using iStat, go to iStat Menus, click on the CPU/GPU dropdown, then the GPU in the active items bar, and select processor. You'll see a graph and you can just let that sit for a few minutes and... Source: 10 months ago

• ACC + Steam working great with apple's game porter

  Fantastic! I read that it is an M1, but what model and configuration exactly is it? If you like and are curious, install this app https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/, it tells you everything, temperature, fan RPM, etc. Source: 11 months ago

• MacBook Pro keeps heating up really fast.

  You can monitor the internal temperatures with iStat Menus or similar, but there's really no need. The system automatically adjusts fan speed to cool itself off when needed. Source: 11 months ago