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Monitoring and SMBus

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MatrixQW

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Do monitoring apps like ThrottleStop or HWInfo64 use SMBus for something or even Windows itself?
If I disable it in device manager all apps seem to give proper values anyway.
 
I'm curious as to why would you disable it; I mean it's not like Superfetch (sysmain), it's a simple chipset communication bus.
 
As far as I know, ThrottleStop does not use SMBus.
 
Don't know why you want to disable it, but if you do, do a cold restart of your computer. & if it does start check to see if your memory temperature sensors are working.
 
There is literally no good reason to disable it, nor does turning off the driver really completely shut it down anyways.
 
A clean Windows installation does not install it (I assume on every computer) but the sensors still report values correctly.
I think the driver is only for apps that would make use of SMBus.
I tend to disable everything that is not going to be used to save system resources.
 
MatrixQW said:
A clean Windows installation does not install it (I assume on every computer) but the sensors still report values correctly.
I think the driver is only for apps that would make use of SMBus.
I tend to disable everything that is not going to be used to save system resources.
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Not gonna happen. Windows itself uses it now...
 
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