LATEST V8.28
• Extended number of temperatures monitored (for CPUs with up-to 256 cores).
• Added OSD independent window without title bar.
• Added workaround for thermal throttling stuck sticky on Arrow Lake-H.
• Removed taskbar entry for OSD window.
• Improved support of next-generation AMD server and workstation platforms.
• Improved I3C bus synchronization on Intel Sapphire Rapids and later CPUs.
• Fixed sensor monitoring on some ASRock B850 series mainboards.
• Added support of ITE IT8698E.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on GIGABYTE Q870M D3H.
• Enhanced support of Intel Wildcat Lake.
• Added monitoring of NVIDIA PCI Express Error Counters.
• Added AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700.
• Improved support of Intel Granite Rapids.

• Parallelized (multi-threaded) sensor polling.
• Fixed automatic update of ARM64 version.
• Added reporting number of Xe cores on Intel GPUs.
• Enhanced Memory Timings window to show more DDR5 features.
• Enhanced power monitoring on Intel Battlemage.
• Improved appearance when using Windows Contrast Themes.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI B850 series.
• Enhanced support of LPDDR5/X SDRAM.
• Updated PresentMon to v2.3.0.
• Improved GUI scaling.
• Added support of multiple PCIe segment groups.
• Improved support of next-generation AMD GPUs.
• Added NVIDIA GB202 family, GeForce RTX 5090, GeForce RTX 5080.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS B850 and B840 series.
• Added monitoring of Cooler Master “i” series PSUs.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X870E APEX.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS B860 and H810 series.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock B860 and B850 series.

• Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D.
• Added enumeration of PCIe buses on ARM64.
• Added monitoring of Cooler Master X Silent/Mighty series PSUs.
• Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.
• Added Latvian language (partial).
• Added monitoring of MSI MEG Ai1600T PSU.
• Fixed support of systems with >512 cores.
• Changed port used to communicate with AMD SMU.
• Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070.
• Fixed reporting of ReBAR status on NVIDIA Blackwell.
• Fixed failing of RGB lightning on MSI RTX 50 series GPUs.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI B840 series.

• Added Memory-only mode.
• Added monitoring of VRAM Read/Write Bandwidth on Intel Arc B-series GPUs.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X870E EXTREME.
• Fixed Razer PWM support.
• Fixed MSI MEG Ai1600T PSU support.
• Added monitoring of 12VHPWR pin and PEG slot power on ASUS ROG ASTRAL GPUs.

• Added Memory-only mode.
• Added monitoring of VRAM Read/Write Bandwidth on Intel Arc B-series GPUs.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X870E EXTREME.
• Fixed Razer PWM support.
• Fixed MSI MEG Ai1600T PSU support.
• Added monitoring of 12VHPWR pin and PEG slot power on ASUS ROG ASTRAL GPUs.
• Removed enumeration of PCIe buses on ARM64.
• Improved SPD scan on AMD Storm Peak systems.
• Added monitoring of +12V input voltage on Navi4x GPUs.
• Added monitoring of Core/Memory/SA VR temperatures on Intel B-series GPUs.
• Added monitoring of Total System Power (Psys) on later AMD APUs.
• Improved reporting of drive letters for NVMe drives in Intel RST RAID.
• Added reporting of 1st and 99th percentile for FPS and frame time via PresentMon.
• Improved support of next-generation AMD EPYC and Threadripper.
• Fixed problem setting sensor logging/resetting hotkeys.
• Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti.

• Fixed DIMM polling on AMD TRX50/WRX80/WRX90 systems.
• Fixed ACPI sensor synchronization.
• Enhanced workaround for Kingston Fury Beast RGB DIMMs.
• Added scaling of OSD x-axis based on width.
• Improved assigning of OSD position when adding items.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on MSI B850 series.
• Changed reporting of GDDR7 memory clock (CK).
• Improved reporting of USB SuperSpeedPlus rates and added number of lanes active.
• Added reporting of USB capable and connected speed.
• Added reporting of USB device maximum current.
• Fixed monitoring of VRM and T_Sensor on some ASUS Z890/B860/X870/B850 boards.
• Enhanced support of AMD Bergamo (Stones-Dense).
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on ASRock B850M series.
• Added support of new Corsair HX1200i model.
• Enhanced monitor EDID enumeration.
• Added chromaticity, color coverage, HDR, AMD FreeSync, NVIDIA G-Sync, HDMI VRR, DP Adaptive Sync.
• Improved support i915/925/945 MCH.
• Added reporting of basic memory module information when SPD cannot be read.
• Improved localization.
• Added AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE.
• Fixed possible crash on 16-CCD AMD CPUs.
• Enhanced support of Intel Granite Rapids.

# Checks for Administrator privileges and opens an elevated prompt is user has Administrator rights
If (-NOT ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator"))
{
$arguments = "& '" + $myinvocation.mycommand.definition + "'"
Start-Process powershell -Verb runAs -ArgumentList $arguments -WindowStyle Hidden
Break
}

$hwinfo = "HWiNFO64"
$hwinfopath = "C:\Program Files\HWiNFO64\HWiNFO64.EXE"
$hwworkdir = "C:\Program Files\HWiNFO64\"

#$process = Get-Process -ProcessName $hwinfo
Stop-Process -Name $hwinfo

for(;;){
If (!(Get-Process -ProcessName $hwinfo -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue))
{Start-Process -filepath $hwinfopath -WorkingDirectory $hwworkdir}
$proc = Get-Process -ProcessName $hwinfo | Sort-Object -Property ProcessName -Unique -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
If (!$proc -or ($proc.Responding -eq $false) -or ($proc.StartTime -lt (Get-Date).AddHours(-4))) {
$proc.Kill()
Start-Sleep -s 5
Start-Process -filepath $hwinfopath -WorkingDirectory $hwworkdir}
Start-sleep -s 900
}

• Extended number of temperatures monitored (for CPUs with up-to 256 cores).
• Added OSD independent window without title bar.
• Added workaround for thermal throttling stuck sticky on Arrow Lake-H.
• Removed taskbar entry for OSD window.
• Improved support of next-generation AMD server and workstation platforms.
• Improved I3C bus synchronization on Intel Sapphire Rapids and later CPUs.
• Fixed sensor monitoring on some ASRock B850 series mainboards.
• Added support of ITE IT8698E.
• Enhanced sensor monitoring on GIGABYTE Q870M D3H.
• Enhanced support of Intel Wildcat Lake.
• Added monitoring of NVIDIA PCI Express Error Counters.
• Added AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700.
• Improved support of Intel Granite Rapids.