Fiery

It's normal. When AIDA64 is not running, the default Blue colour schema is used.

We're currently working on improving the AIDA64 Sidebar Gadget. You can develop your own gadget that has advanced features, but I'm afraid due to intellectual property rights and other boring legal issues we cannot use external components in our software

It means you haven't upgraded to the latest AIDA64 beta available at: http://www.aida64.co...39s1y6ftjhwkzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. With that beta a new UPS entry should be available among the HWMon Modules.

If you have the GPU module enabled, but the UPS module disabled, then do you get latency issues?

Thank you for the feedback. Just disabling the UPS module didn't solve the latency issues, did it?

Please note that Turbo is engaged so quickly, and for such a small amount of time, then it is possible that for the fraction of time AIDA64 (or CPU-Z) measures the CPU clock the processor switches up to Turbo clock, and while Intel's tool measures the clock it switches back to non-Turbo clock. Even though it looks as if those tools work in parallel and measure the very same things, all those low-level clock measurements are done exclusively, without multi-tasking, for a very short amount of time. It's not easy to explain all that without using deep technical terms. The whole point of Turbo Boost and other performance enhancement and power saving "magic" of Nehalem and later Intel processors are designed to work very fast, by switching clock speeds in a fraction of a second. Hence the CPU can adjust to the necessary workload with an extreme response time.

Thank you. We have different plans about the System Stability Test, which involves a complete redesign of the user interface, and also to make it easier to use while retaining the current layout with improvements. Stay tuned

Thank you, we'll fix that in the next AIDA64 beta release. It works fine in IE 9.0 and Chrome 17 for me. What web browser do you use? Thanks, Fiery

In order to find out whether it's a gadget-related issue or a flaw in AIDA64's engine, please check the UpTime on the Operating System / Operating System page of AIDA64 as well. Let us know what can you find out.

Maybe the CPU senses the light CPU load that CPU-Z or AIDA64 CPUID Panel puts on the processor, and instead of leaving itself resting, it kicks in the Turbo Boost to assure it provides the maximum single-threaded performance. Please note that unlike other applications, both CPU-Z and AIDA64 CPUID Panel monitors more aspects of the system and updates those properties dynamically, hence they put a bit more stress on the CPU than other solutions. In most cases the difference is only 1-2% of total CPU time, but it may just be enough for the CPU to activate Turbo Boost.

Thank you for the feedback

Thank you for the feedback

Thank you for the feedback

We've implemented the new RAID member enumeration option on the Stability page of the Preferences. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.co...39s1y6ftjhwkzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know if it helps to get around the slow startup issue. Thanks, Fiery

Both of you, please upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.co...39s1y6ftjhwkzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Then start it, go to the Sensor page, and check if it has the same latency issues. If it still has, then right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> HWMon Modules --> UPS. This will effectively disable UPS monitoring, so the relevant items (e.g. Battery Voltage) should then disappear from the Sensor page. Let me know if it fixes the latency issues or not. If you have time and like to test things out, you can try to disable other HWMon modules as well, one by one, to see which ones makes an impact on the latency. Let me know how it goes. Thanks, Fiery

We've implemented the requested hardware monitoring item. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.co...39s1y6ftjhwkzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

We've implemented the requested Video Memory Utilization hardware monitoring item. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1839s1y6ftjhwkzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you. We've implemented the requested new hardware monitoring items, and added voltage monitoring for your UPS. Make sure to upgrade to the latest beta version of AIDA64 Extreme Edition available at: http://www.aida64.com/downloads/aida64extremebuild1839s1y6ftjhwkzip After upgrading to this new version, make sure to restart Windows to finalize the upgrade. Let me know how it works. Thanks, Fiery

RAID enumeration is necessary to find the member drives of a RAID array, and show individual information for all drives of the array. Thank you for the kind offer, but exactly because of the time synchronization issues, we prefer to do all testing in-house. I'm confident we'll find the bug eventually and fix it, we just need to play with various settings and various hardware a bit more to reproduce it.

We'll release a new AIDA64 beta in a few days. It will feature a new stability option in the Preferences, so you can disable the RAID member enumeration to get around the slow startup. We would of course be happier if we could reproduce the slow startup and find a way to fix it up, but so far we couldn't find a single mobile or desktop system in our labs that would produce the issue Anyway, I'll post a message into this topic once the new AIDA64 update is available

Currently those items not available for OSD Panel or SensorPanel. We'll work on that, and as soon as there's an update, we'll post it into this topic. Meanwhile, can you please right-click on the bottom status bar of AIDA64 main window --> System Debug --> Battery Dump. Copy-paste the full results into this topic. We'd like to check whether more sensor readings may be available for your UPS that we should implement. Thanks, Fiery

Thank you for the screen shot. We've tested it with Win8 CP, and it seems to be a bug in the gadget handling of Win8. Please note that Win8 is still in the beta stage, so unexpected issues can come up anywhere, anytime basically

Thank you for the screen shots. We're working on a new built-in Options panel for the AIDA64 Sidebar Gadget where you could configure any colours you like (RGB). We'll post a message into this topic once a new AIDA64 update is available.

Thank you for listing your issues. 1) High CPU usage may occur if you enable too many items. The SensorPanel on itself shouldn't consume considerably more CPU cycles than the Sidebar Gadget -- unless you have a very slow video adapter or old CPU. 2) The analog clock Sidebar gadget can still be used along with the SensorPanel. Noone said you cannot use the Sidebar _and_ SensorPanel altogether. You can even use the AIDA64 Sidebar Gadget together with SensorPanel if you want. 3) Transparency: I cannot argue with that 4) Graph is not available on both the AIDA64 Sidebar Gadget and the SensorPanel right now. So I don't see that as a negative point against the SensorPanel, since the Sidebar Gadget also hasn't got it. We're planning to add graphs to the SensorPanel soon. 5) Bars are not available on the AIDA64 Sidebar Gadget, so it's not a negative point against the SensorPanel again. Gradient bars are also on our roadmap 6) Transparency on mouse hovering is not easy to obtain with the SensorPanel, but we'll check if anything can be done about it. Regards, Fiery

It's not possible right now. We'll check if it can be done. But as Dutch suggested, the SensorPanel feature is already there and offers way more customizations than the Sidebar Gadget. It takes more time to understand the whole thing and to make your SensorPanel to your liking, but IMHO it's worth the efforts