Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

RMerlin reviewed v5.3.7.0 on Jul 13, 2004

Thanks to an open API, his hard work can be used by third party programmers. I too ain't fond of his GUI (I used it a few years ago mostly for the systray icons it created), but I use his DLL with Samurize now.

Shame about development being stopped. But I think it's more in the hands of mobo makers to change their mind than Alex - he can hardly continue working on something that relies on a steady feed of programming informations from the hardware manufacturers.

Another sad victory for the corporate world :(

yokozuna reviewed v5.3.7.0 on Jul 12, 2004

Great program! Unfortunately, some producers refuse to submit important data to the author of the program, e.g. MSI could write how to read CPU temperatures from the core of CPU (not socket temperatures). PC Alert 4 submitted by MSI itself does it. I cannot blame the author, but I blame some mobo producers. I do hope that the author of MBM will change his mind and continue the development of the great proggie...

Dwarden reviewed v5.3.7.0 on Jun 18, 2004

As always perfectly working , for free and simple to use ...

Thanks to Alex for all his work

OPaul reviewed v5.3.7.0 on Jun 18, 2004

Great program, very useful but I personally don't like the GUI.

Bachalor reviewed v5.3.7.0 on Jun 18, 2004

Very good tool, FREEWARE and now I can permanently check my CPU temperature. Thanks for it.

Hei-ko reviewed v5.3.5.0 on Oct 24, 2003

On the HP you will find 5.3.5.1

very nice

Dwarden reviewed v5.3.3.0 on Jun 9, 2003

It's very simple to disable e.g. fans or volage monitoring cycles (and free query time for SMB access to temperature request only). It offers much more than SpeedFan (even both are great).

Tridus reviewed v5.3.0.0 on Mar 21, 2003

I find this program to do too much for my purposes. If you just want to monitor CPU/mobo temperature without a lot of fuss, I suggest something like Speedfan instead.

(Hardware Sensors Monitor is my actual favorite, but its expensive.)

ogre2112 reviewed v5.2.1.0 on Oct 30, 2002

A must have program!

ryanvm reviewed v5.2.1.0 on Oct 30, 2002

Awesome program, works awesome with my KG7-RAID setup.
And yes, it will work fine on an Intel platform as well ;-)

Faction reviewed v5.2.1.0 on Oct 30, 2002

So this is For Amd only ? or both amd and P4s ?

Cormac reviewed v5.1.0.7 on Mar 2, 2002

Great program...

oilman614 reviewed v5.1.0.6 Beta on Feb 14, 2002

Been using this prog for couple years now, works great even on this POS PC Chips, Slot A Mobo, Runnin Win XP Pro and 3 cool colors displaying my CPU Temp, Usage and case Temp. So if you have a problem with the Program, Don't blame Alex. Plus It's freeware, so it's not like you lost any $$

Orbit reviewed v5.1.0.6 Beta on Feb 9, 2002

Abit KT7A rev 1.3
1GHz 266fsb Athlon @ 1120MHz
512megs CAS2 Micron
Win2K Pro SP2 with Rollover
I've used this program with this setup since last September, 2001, and it's worked perfectly with each version.
Just for the records.
Only this new version has a new .dll that CoolMon doesn't recognize. Proly be a new version of that soon, too.
I give it a 5-thumbsup rating: it's very useful, and I personally have had no issues with it with either win98SE or 2Kpro on this system.

golbex reviewed v5.1.0.6 Beta on Feb 9, 2002

This program is quite picky.

ksramer reviewed v5.1.0.5 Beta on Jan 31, 2002

This is a good program, unfortunately I can't get it to work on my Gigabyte GA-7VTX-H motherboard. It worked great on my EPoX 8KHA no problem. IF someone is using MBM on a Gigabyte GA-7VTX-H please post the settings. If i could get it to work on y new mb I'd give it a 5!

jabooty reviewed v5.1.0.4 on Jan 7, 2002

So, let me see if I've got this right....the CPU number now starts at 0? Just wanted to make sure, because I don't understand unless it's mentioned at least 4 times in the description, and as you can see, it's only mentioned 3 times.

Anyway, great program. Works great.

kumariradha reviewed v5.1.0.1 on Nov 12, 2001

The program itself could not be accessed.
I get the information that the page does not exist.

XanTium reviewed v5.1 on Oct 27, 2001

Very good program , that gives u almost all hardware-info eassily accesible (cpu,case temp , fan rmp's ...) , with usefull warning when yr system becomes to hot ;) This version 5.1 doesn't bring much more over 5.0 tho. Only "real" downside of the program : it isn't really fast(start-up) and uses quiet alot of ram for a simple background procces.

disobay reviewed v5.09 on Aug 11, 2001

Very good program, only missing support for HDD-temperature (new disks got sensors *yeay*!)

irchs reviewed v5.08 on Jun 29, 2001

I use it to spam IRC with my temperature, pretty handy s***, also, a little number in my systray shows me my temp.

Great proggy. (Running on win2k SP2)

Golden.Blood reviewed v5.08 on Jun 28, 2001

This thing has some potential, but it stops there. The gauges are cool, but too small, and dont get me started about any of the other interface options.

My complaint mostly is that it is such a pain in the butt to get to work, While I do not like CoolMonitor much better mostly because it sucks in its display, it does allow you to load settings for a particular motherboard.

I couldnt get MBM to monitor my GB-7DXR w/ 1.4 Athlon, it would monitor one temp, the others it said they were at 39 degress ferenheit. Right, and Bill Gates is my friend in the OS Business.

CoolMonitor gets my vote, for the better of the two, I just wish someone would make one that was simple, clean, and had some of both MBM and CM combined. CM seems to work better, but I like the sensing ability of MBM for all your sensors onboard.

Hades! reviewed v5.05 on Mar 10, 2001

I think the interface could really use some work, and that's mostly what holds it back. It took me a couple minutes when I first got it to figure out how to work all the settings. Other than that, MBM is a very useful program that reports back all the possible temperatures, voltages, and fan speeds it can get out of your system. Helped me out a lot. A must for overclockers.

cdaledave reviewed v5.01 on Nov 4, 2000

I'm picky when it comes to interfaces, therefore the new 5.x interface detracts quite a bit. I liked the clean windowing and tabs of 4.x. More information was displayed at once. The dashboard of v5 is nice. I wouldn't mind seeing a skin for v5 using the old window style.

teranova52 reviewed v5.01 on Oct 30, 2000

Yes the new face of the version 5 , its not good at all .
The author say ... You will use to it ...

I say no thanks pal ..
As for the 4.18 version ,will stay to history as the best ..

snooty reviewed v5.0 Final on Oct 22, 2000

First of all it's FREE, so if you don't like don't use it.I have no problems with my Me,W2k systems.It's the only one in it's kind with so many features. btw. the screenshot shown here is from an old version.The new look is something you either like or you don't, but it works great when you're overclocking and need a program to keep an eye on your temperatures,fans,voltages AND wich allows you to start programs like Shutdown Now etc.You can even log almost every aspect of the computers vital signs.Good work Alex!!

thomh reviewed v5.0 Public Beta 2.7 on Oct 9, 2000

I don't know why everone seems to have prolems with MBM5.
My experience with these versions are quite pleasing under both Win2Ksp1 and WinME.

hood reviewed v5.0 Public Beta 2.6 on Oct 3, 2000

I want to say that the 4.18 is the best wersion so far.
Do NOT install the new 5.2x version until it works.
And I don`t like the user interface in thees new version.

mayakovski reviewed v5.0 Public Beta 2.3 on Sep 16, 2000

I gotta, version 4.18 is great but these Betas of version 5 suck. Most of the features do not work at all, it crashes often on all 3 of my NT 4 systems, and when you uninstall it it removes files needed to install an older version forcing you to modify system drivers by hand.
STAY AWAY FROM THESE BETA TESTS.

big_gun1 reviewed v5.0 Public Beta 2.1 on Sep 10, 2000

It won't install on my computer. Win2000 SR1.

plantman reviewed v4.12 on Nov 20, 1999

A great program. Very useful for overclocking, allows you to monitor many different things, like voltages, temperatures, speed, fan RPMs, etc. A staple on any power users desktop!

estops reviewed v4.12 on Nov 20, 1999

I could not get the program to run under win 98 SE either. It crashes right after the splash screen.