Application charts

The Quick CPU application has several chart controls located on the left and the right side of the application. Charts on the right side of the application are split between different panels depending on their functionality. NOTE: all the panels used for the application charts are DOCKABLE and can be rearranged, hidden, docked, undocked, floated, or hidden depending on the user preferences.

Below you’ll find a brief overview of each chart category and some available options.

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Essential CPU data chart panel

This chart control shows data for five different CPU indicators:

CPu Temperature
CPU Temperature for Distance To Tj Max (Available for Intel and AMD Ryzen CPUs)
CPU Load
CPU Clock Speed
CPU Power

The charts listed above have the following options:

Chart history: By default the application will store 20 minutes of historic data for each chart indicator (temperature, distance to Tj Max, load,clock). You can access this data by scrolling the chart to the left by using the scroll bar at the bottom of the chart control. The amount of time representing historic data can be modified by going to the Options menu and choosing the CPU Chart Settings option. Use Maximum time range for historical data option to set a specific number of minutes for how long the chart will keep the historic data accessible.
Chart zoom and visible data range: By default an end user can see one minute range of real time data for all three indicators. However, the time window for real time data can be modified (set to lower or the higher amount of time) by hovering over any of the chart indicators and using your mouse wheel or a mouse pad to zoom in or out of the chart’s visible data. Once you have chosen the time frame for real time data, you need to move the scroll bar at the bottom of the chart back to the very right position in order to see the updates for data in real time.
Chart cross line indicator: Each chart has its own cross-line indicator to view the chart data value for a specific time. This indicator can be seen by hovering the mouse over one of the charts. However, if you want to see combined data values for all the charts at the same time, you can do the following: go to Option menu - choose CPU Chart Settings - set Combine charts cross line indicator to YES in General settings.

NOTE: that in order to see real time chart data, the chart scroll bar has to be moved to the very right position. When the scroll bar is located elsewhere (center position for example) the application will assume that you are accessing historical chart data.

CPU data distribution chart panel

This panel has several different charts. The visibility of each chart will depend on the CPU type.

Available Charts

Load distribution - shows how even is the utilization for each CPU core (utilized percentage of core’s total processing capacity).
Temperature distribution - shows how evenly CPU temperature is distributed among all the cores.
Clock distribution - shows how evenly CPU frequency is distributed among all the cores.
Power distribution - shows how evenly CPU power is distributed among all the cores.

Every chart control shows an average distribution data for each CPU core over the configurable time frame window which is 20 minutes by default (or less if the application has been running for less than 20 minutes).

Each bar on the chart represents a specific CPU core. The actual time frame window can be configured by going to: Options -> CPU chart settings -> Maximum time range for charts average data. For example if the time range is set to 5 minutes the application will be calculating average value for each CPU core for the last 5 minutes. Each chart supports hover-over option in order to view details

CPU workload delegation chart panel

This panel has a CPU Workload Delegation chart that shows the average workload for each CPU core over the configurable time frame window which is 20 minutes by default (or less if the application has been running for less than 20 minutes). By using this chart, an end user can observe how workload is delegated among different CPU cores by the OS. This chart is different from the Load distribution chart in a way that the Load distribution chart shows an average core utilization (what percentage of total core processing capacity has been utilized) where CPU Workload Delegation chart shows percentage of workload that was delegated to each CPU core by the OS.

Memory data chart panel

This panel has two charts, both of which show memory usage data.

Available vs. Used memory
Committed vs. Uncommitted memory

Note that Installed memory is not equal to your commit limit in cases where the page file is enabled and it’s size is set to non zero value.

Chart Settings

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Chart options can be accessed by clicking: Options menu -> CPU chart settings.

There are a total of two setting groups:

Essential CPU data chart: settings for all the charts located on “Essential CPU data panel”
1. Maximum time range for historical data: this value sets the amount of historical data in minutes that can be accessible by using the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the chart control.
2. Show TjMax distance temperature graph: this option is available for Intel and most AMD Ryzen CPUs. By setting this option to YES the temperature graph will show an extra indicator for Distance to TjMax temperature. This option will allow you to watch both indicators side by side on the same chart panel.
3. Show CPU Power package chart: this option is available for Intel and AMD Ryzen CPUs. By setting this option to YES you'll see an additional chart, that'll show CPU Package Power data.
General settings: this group of settings will affect charts from 2 or more panels”
1. Combine chart crossline indicator: this option gives the ability to combine individual hover-over chart indicators into one group combining values for all of the charts. This option can be useful when a user needs to compare side by side values from multiple charts within the same category. This setting applies to Essential CPU Data charts and CPU Data Distribution charts.
2. Maximum time range for chart average data: this option is used to set a specific time frame window (in minutes), this time frame window will be used by CPU Data Distribution charts and CPU Workload delegation chart to calculate average graph values for the selected time window.
3. Select color palette for application charts: using the drop-down you can choose color scheme for all the application charts from 50 different custom color palettes.
4. Show chart labels on all the application bar charts: using the drop-down you can choose the way chart label will be shown on every bar chart of the application. The default option is Horizontal. You can also completely disable this feature by selecting Off option.

Dockable Panels

Starting from version 4.0.0.0 some of the application functionality will be implemented using dockable panels. This feature will add more flexibility and viewing options to an end user.

Each panel can be individually rearranged, hidden, visible, docked, auto-hidden or completely undocked from it’s parent form. By using a mouse an end user can drag each panel to a chosen position within the dockable area which will be highlighted by the application.

Each panel has a set of controls on the top, similar to a normal window these controls can be used to close, dock/undock or auto hide the panel. Once the layout for one or more panels has been modified it will be saved on the application exit and restored back on application start, this option can be enabled or disabled by checking the following item: Panel menu -> Save panel layout on application exit.

The original panel layout can be restored at any time by clicking on the Reset panel layout menu item under Panel menu.

An end user can use a Panel visibility menu item under the Panel menu to view or set visibility options for each individual panel.

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