Wonder if someone might know of an easy and hopefully free piece of software.
I have a couple of laptops (range of i7’s) that I use for rendering animations. During the renders, they tend to get quite hot and I have to throttle the CPU’s back to something like 90% total CPU usage in the power settings of the control panel.
As they share the same network as my main PC, I was wondering if there might perhaps be some software that would give me the laptops CPU temp, perhaps also CPU and Memory usage.
I have found some software, but most cost something or other are just crappy stuff.
for temp monitoring i use on all my pcs coretemp ,its small, shows the individual cores temps, it can start with windows automatically and its free
for mem usage a just use windows task manager to monitor, cause external programs are just going to load into memory and use more memory to tell u what your memory usage is.
You could go a little bit more hardcore and use an enterprise grade monitoring suite like Icinga2 which is FOSS. Icinga2 can use the NSClient++ client on Windows based systems to monitor the underlying OS (but something simple like WMI based monitoring and SNMP is also possible)
Completely free, very comprehensive and customizable, accurate, and with logging capabilities. I’m not sure about monitoring another PC via a network connection though.