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The official website for CPU-Z is a trusted source to download the utility program. The website is operated by CPUID, the company that develops and distributes CPU-Z.
There are a lot of folks running Cinebench and CPU-Z validation and calling it good. And in almost all of those cases, they end up having to back down from that later. The core problem is that advertising bad overclock settings leads to a lot of issues for other users.
CPU-Z (made by the company CPU-ID) is a freeware system profiling and monitoring application for Microsoft Windows and Android that detects the central processing unit, RAM, motherboard chip-set, and other hardware features of a modern personal computer or Android device
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MSI center is nice to have so you don’t have to go into bios every time. CPU-Z is a real program there to look at your CPU specs, that’s just an MSI skinned version. Same with AIDA64, a real program with MSI skin. Not too sure about the Realtek, but seems nice to have.
CPU-Z isn't really a bad monitoring tool necessarily, it's just less good and there's no real reason to use it when HWiNFO64 is a thing. From what I can tell it does read my motherboard sensor Vcore correctly, but again that's not really the one that matters, that's 10-20mV higher than the correct sensor's reading.
CPU-Z is great for checking specific specs, HWinfo is more intended for sensor logging and monitoring. Use whatever software is most appropriate, ideal, or convenient for whatever you are trying to do.
So I was about to download CPU-Z when I found some older posts stating that CPU-Z was detected as malware by some antiviruses. Downloaded the ZIP from the official website and scanned it with VirusTotal.
CPU-Z Does not display temps. You need to use their other tool, HWMonitor. Reply reply Top 1% ...
CPU-Z has shown different things in the "Name" box in different versions, I have no idea what the logic behind it is. Only the "Specification" box is read from the CPU. This also isn't a 100% consistent between different CPUs from Intel, but like I wrote, the character string comes from the CPU itself.