CPUID has released a new processor performance and monitoring tool called PerfMonitor 2<\/a>, which allows you to track four processor-related counters chosen from a processor-specific list. It lets you see things like overall CPU temperature, package and core temperatures, package power usage, L2 and L3 cache hit ratios to name just a few of the items that are visible (depending on your CPU).<\/p>\n

Figures 1, 2, and 3 show some of these counters on my 22nm Intel Core i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge) desktop system, while it was under a load from Geekbench<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1: Usage Counters<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Figure 2: Package Temperature Counters<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Figure 3: Package Power Counters<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I tried the utility on the Dell PowerEdge R720 system that we have in our SQLskills lab that has two 32nm Intel Xeon E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge-EP) processors, and I noticed that most of the counters showed no data, which was a little disappointing, since both Sandy Bridge and Windows Server 2012 are supposed to be supported.<\/p>\n

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Figure 4: Blank Counters on Dell PowerEdge R720<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The display looks similar to the Windows Server 2012 Task Manager (shown in Figure 5), which seems to be by design.<\/p>\n

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Figure 5: Windows Server 2012 Task Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CPUID has released a new processor performance and monitoring tool called PerfMonitor 2, which allows you to track four processor-related counters chosen from a processor-specific list. It lets you see things like overall CPU temperature, package and core temperatures, package power usage, L2 and L3 cache hit ratios to name just a few of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20,24],"tags":[100,96,95],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql-server-hardware","category-intel","category-processors","tag-cpuid","tag-geekbench","tag-perfmonitor-2"],"yoast_head":"\n