Software solutions to monitor hardware performance?

Alrighty!

So I've set up my rig, a lovely 7750 BE in an Antec 1200 with an Asus 4850 and a 27'' Dell monitor.

I am beginning to get interested in tweaking and changing things (I got the virus I know, it's incurable..). So my first idea was to figure out which programs/utilities can I use to monitor the performance of my rig. I am not referring to wholesome benchmark software. What I am referring to are things such as the following:

- temperature measuring programs (for the mobo/gpu/cpu/hard drive)
- fans controlling programs (is there such a software solution?)
- individual benchmark tools for hd/gpu/cpu so I can see the performance changes on each component as I tweak it

I know that I can use the Catalyst tool for the gpu, so that's sorted, but what other tools are there to monitor the rest of the stuff?

Any ideas and suggestions most welcome!

Try SiSoftware Sandra.

I use RMClock to monitor my CPU usage and temperature:

http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml

cpu - coretemp
case fans - speedfan

benchmarking:
ati tool (test overclock for stability) - gpu
prime95 as above - cpu

3dmark

What they said^

plus

Orthos
CPU-Z
HD Tach
TAT (Intel Thermal Analysis Tool)
Everest

Thank you all for your suggestions!

That will keep me busy for a while.

... and one of these!

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Alpha...black)-(25411)

I use one and its fantastic!