PowerShell – Monitor CPU Cores Temperatures

In order to Monitor the Temperature of your CPU Cores it is best to make use of OpenHardwareMonitorLib

 

You can download it here.

This nice application has a .Net Library that you can use to access the Hardware Sensors Data

It also exposes the values to WMI when the GUI is started, but that is not so convenient for monitoring

SOLUTION :

# Needs admin privileges and the .NET OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll

#Requires -RunAsAdministrator

CLS

Add-Type -Path "C:\OpenHardwareMonitor\OpenHardwareMonitorLib.dll"

$Comp = New-Object -TypeName OpenHardwareMonitor.Hardware.Computer

$Comp.Open()

$Comp.CPUEnabled = $true

$Comp.RAMEnabled = $true

$Comp.MainboardEnabled = $true

$Comp.FanControllerEnabled = $true

$Comp.GPUEnabled = $true

$Comp.HDDEnabled = $true

ForEach ($HW in $Comp.Hardware) {
    $hw.HardwareType.ToString() + ' - ' + $hw.name.ToString()

    If ( $hw.HardwareType -eq "CPU"){
        ForEach ($Sensor in $HW.Sensors) {

        If ($Sensor.SensorType -eq "Temperature"){
            
            $Sensor.Name + ' - Temp : ' + $Sensor.Value.ToString() + ' C - Min. : ' + $Sensor.Min.ToString() + ' C - Max : ' + $Sensor.Max.ToString() + ' C'
        }
      }
    }
   
    # $hw.Sensors
    $hw.SubHardware
}
$Comp.Close()

Apparently there has been a fork on this marvelous Library called LibreHardwareMonitor.

See here 

Someone asked me to update the code to this more recent maintained Library using PS.

So here you go :

If you add an Email Notifications when it reaches the MAX values, you have a nice Monitoring System

Enjoy !