Get sensor values (like Temperature of GPU and CPU) and fan speeds of Windows 10 PC

Question

I've been trying to get a Python script to show temperatures for CPU, GPU and other availabile sensors in my hardware, but I haven't found anything useful.

I tried using WMI to get those values, but my processor is apparently not supported.

The code I used was:

import wmi
w = wmi.WMI(namespace="root\wmi")
temperature_info = w.MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature()[0]
print temperature_info.CurrentTemperature

which I got from another stackoverflow thread, and I get thrown the error Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:/Users/Joe/Desktop/test.py", line 3, in <module>
    temperature_info = w.MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature()[0]
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 819, in query
    handle_com_error ()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\wmi.py", line 241, in handle_com_error
    raise klass (com_error=err)
x_wmi: <x_wmi: Unexpected COM Error (-2147217396, 'OLE error 0x8004100c', None, None)>

which, according to Microsoft Support, means Not Supported (0x8004100C) I have tried running the command-line version of this code in a cmd.exe window ran as an administrator, but I got the same error.

Is there any other way to access CPU and GPU temperatures?

PS: My OS is Windows 10 and my CPU is AMD FX-8350. I am unsure whether my OS or my CPU are at fault for this error.

Answer 1

Here is a way to get your GPU temperature.

Use nvidia-smi tool.

This is .exe file present in the location "C:\\Program Files\\NVIDIA Corporation\\NVSMI".

In the command prompt, just enter:

cd C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI

then type:

nvidia-smi

This will display an output like this:

You can see the GPU temp! (red underline)

Coming to the CPU and Fan speed values, Microsoft apparently does not have a built in functionality to at least showcase these values to the user. But you can try 3rd part applications likeMSI Afterburner . But Microsoft strictly warns against this as this might affect the performance.