Earlier this week we asked you to share your computer monitoring tips and tricks, now we’re back to share the wealth. Read on to see how your fellow reader monitor their gear.

One of the more popular monitoring tools, thanks in part to the amount of things beyond just hardware it can monitor, in the comments was Rainmeter. Lee writes:

I don’t really monitor my computer constantly, only when something is hanging up and I need to see what’s causing it.

That being said, I do have Rainmeter so I can quickly see how much RAM or CPU is being used. For anything more detailed, I just go into the task manager and sort by RAM or CPU.

Shinigamibob uses a wider range of tools to get a more in-depth look at difference aspects of his computer:

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