# Test Preferences – Temperature & Battery

Temperature monitoring

By using a 3rd party Temperature Monitoring Application and BurnInTest together it is possible to Burn in your hardware while monitoring and logging the temperature of your CPU(s) within BurnInTest. The Monitoring Application you are using with BurnInTest needs to be selected within preferences in the section “Monitoring Application” The choices available are:

- No Monitoring
- Intel Active Monitor
- Hmonitor
- MBM (Motherboard Monitor) and
- SpeedFan

The temperature scale of Celsius or Fahrenheit that is required should be selected.

If you are using Hmonitor, you can select from a range of Hmonitor provided temperature sources, such as CPU1 and CPU2. If you are using other 3rd party product, the first 3 valid sensors available from these applications are used by BurnInTest. By default these are typically CPUs, the Case or hard disks. For example: the default configuration of SpeedFan provided Hard Disk 1, Hard Disk 2 and CPU temperatures in our testing. The default configuration of MBM provided the Case and CPU1 in our testing.

See Temperature and battery monitoring for more details.

Battery monitoring (via BatteryMon)

BurnInTest can work with another product from PassMark Software called BatteryMon. BatteryMon allows the charge level in laptop batteries and uninterruptible power supplies UPSs to be monitored. Click the check box to turn on the feature.

See Temperature and battery monitoring for more details.