{"id":656,"date":"2013-03-24T15:08:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T22:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.209.169.194\/blogs\/glenn\/?p=656"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:43:09","slug":"cpuid-perfmonitor-2-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/cpuid-perfmonitor-2-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"CPUID PerfMonitor 2 Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"

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":"closed","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/glenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}