System monitoring software

[David M]

Who has the best system monitoring software?...preferably free. I would like to keep track of system temps and use it to overclock.

I am also looking for a good DVD player software. I was using Interactual player on my old computer but cant seem to find the actual download in their website.

Thanks

[pillainp]

System Monitoring Utilities:

1) Lavalys Everest Free Edition

2) Sisoft Sandra 2005 Lite

Windows XP has a couple of system information tools built in:
a) START>RUN>MSINFO for the Microsoft System Information Utility.
b) START>RUN>PERFMON for the Microsoft System Performance Monitor, which will give you a lot of info on the system such as CPU load, memory usage, etc.

For your DVD playing needs, I find that Cyberlink's PowerDVD is perhaps the best DVD player software out there.

However, Windows Media Player (9 and 10) will do as a perfectly good alternative as long as you have a hardware decoder (most new video cards have those anyway): software decoders will tax the system and give you choppy playback.