PerfWatch is a simple application designed to display the internal load on the processor or processors of the system. Check your CPU's usage with this tool.

The display of the Windows Task Manager is in most cases significantly higher, since it indicates the workload at the level of the operating system. This includes the times when utilization, in which the processor waits internally, for example, on a main memory access.

PerfWatch however only displays the time that the processor does work effectively, the internal waiting time does not count. It is taking over the "net-working" without breaks. To increase the utilization of a processor, Intel offers the Pentium 4 uses a technology called "Hyper-Threading". The lower the internal load, the more you can benefit from Hyper-Threading ".

To determine the utilization serves to PerfWatch the "Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) of the processor. The Pentium 4, the event "UOPs Retired counts", the Athlon, Duron and Opteron event "Retired Ops", the Itanium and Itanium 2, the event "Retired IA-64 Instructions" minus "Retired NOP Instructions" and XScale processors, " Instruction executed.

The software supports Xeon / Pentium 4, Pentium III, Pentium M, Core, Core 2, Core i7, atomic and Athlon / Duron.

To run PerfWatch you need Administrator rights to PerfWatch can start the driver to query the PMU.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this cpu benchmark software.