Hey everyone. I recently had a weird issue concerning the latest hwmonitor version (v1.28) and nvidia drivers and decided to share my story hoping it might help someone experiencing the same thing. So I was running 352.86 and hwmonitor 1.27 on a fresh installation of windows 7 x64. Had this setup for months without any issue. A bit more than a week ago I got a notification from hwmonitor that a new version was available so I decided to download and install that. Just a while after installing and running that (I normally keep hwmonitor running in the background while I do my things) I got a TDR when I was just browsing the web. I didn't pay too much attention to it and thought it was some sort of glitch or something. So the next morning I fired ESO which is the only game I'm playing atm and just after a couple minutes in the game I got another TDR which made the game crash (I wasn't even doing anything, just standing still reading in-game mail). This time I figured it would be too much coincidence having two of these in a row after several months of no issues. I closed the game and went to search the web for answers and after a few minutes got another TDR while surfing... After that it came to me that the only thing I had changed in my PC was installing the new version of hwmonitor (1.28). So I decided to test that out and turned off hwmonitor (furthermore I even noticed in the patch notes for 1.28 that they added some sort of monitoring for nvidia cards: "Added NVIDIA TDP percentage"). It's been more than a week now and after hours of surfing and gaming I didn't have another TDR since. So I think it's safe to say it's hwmonitor 1.28 causing the TDRs (in my setup at least). So this is just a heads-up for anyone experiecing the same TLDR: hwmonitor 1.28 is causing TDRs in my setup with windows 7 x64 and nvidia drivers 352.86.
HWmonitor even gave me BSODs. HWiNFO on the other hand is pretty good. Also, you should never have more than one application accessing your sensors.
