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Have you heard of HWiNFO - a computer sensor / hardware monitoring solution?
Have you got a STREAM DECK?
Why not use your STREAM DECK to display live data from HWiNFO???

This tutorial will get you through the basics of how to monitor CPU / GPU / HDD / RAM / SSD / NVMe temperatures, or power draw, or disk read and write speeds, or network data transfer speeds etc. This data can be displayed on your Elgato Stream Deck with only a few simple steps!

Anything you can think of, just about, can be monitored and logged using:

HWiNFO : https://www.hwinfo.com/

And displayed using a Stream Deck (not a Steam Deck, although it may work there also!) :

STREAM DECK : https://www.elgato.com/en/stream-deck

This is a User Overview / Review of HWiNFO, while monitoring a HP Z840 Workstation during a DaVinci Resolve Studio 18 Video Render (and 4K playback during editing).

Use this guide to help you do live monitoring of your computer hardware to avoid expensive failures (like your ROG RAMPAGE EXTREME 4 Gaming Motherboard with top spec i7 CPU Burning Out - A True Personal Experience!!! ).

With HWiNFO and a Stream Deck, You will be better equipped to avoid these situations.

INDEX:
0:00 Introduction - Minor frills.
0:22 Video INDEX
0:32 BONUS
1:04 HWiNFO - Settings Overview
1:58 Alert example - Get notified on key data - like 970 NVMe ASCI Temps.
2:20 Discussion - data displayed in "Sensors"
2:27 RIVATUNER data output - key setting for STREAM DECK - "Shared Memory Support"
2:48 Reducing / Changing data displayed in "Sensors"
3:50 Setting Alerts - Get notified on key data
4:30 HWiNFO - Displayed Data Condensed for "ease of viewing"
4:40 HWiNFO - Sensor Datalog of DaVinci Resolve Studio 18
5:00 DaVinci Resolve Studio 18 - Live (but sped up) 4K video playback during editing
5:19 Elgato STREAM Deck - Setting up HWiNFO Live Data Display ("Shared Memory Support" must be activated 2:27)
7:50 Tutorial Summary
8:03 DaVinci Resolve Studio 18 - HP Z840 Video Render in 4K H.265 (Quick Time)
8:10 DATALOG - HWiNFO - CPU Temp, Watts, Use %.
8:17 DATALOG - HWiNFO - HDD / SSD / NVMe Temp, Read / Write Speeds, Hot Spot Temps.
8:27 DATALOG - HWiNFO - RTX 3080 12GB Temperatures, power draw and Hot Spot Temps. (ASUS ROG STRIX 12GB)
8:30 DATALOG SUMMARY
8:37 DATALOG - HWiNFO - RAM / Memory allocations
8:40 HP Z840 Workstation - CPU Cooler Note - Are Z Cooler / Vapor Coolers needed for high TDP CPUs?
9:12 SECRET BONUS - Benchmark and Game Play??? Outro - No Frills

Tutorial is for educational purposes. No affiliation or endorsement by HWiNFO or Elgato. User discretion advised.

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