CPU-X is a free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.




The best open source alternative to I-Nex is CPU-X (by X0rg). If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to I-Nex and 11 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to I-Nex are CPU Info, Hardinfo, lshw and Psensor.
CPU-X is a free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.








Hardinfo is a system information and benchmark tool for Linux. It shows detailed system info, including hardware, environment, and kernel. It can use lm_sensors and ACPI for temperature and battery information. It also has four CPU banchmarks and two FPU benchmarks.



lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.



Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux. It can monitor the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors), the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl), the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs, the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives...


sysinfo is a graphical tool that is able to display some hardware and software information about the computer it is run on.

GtkSysinfo is a perl-Gtk2 software for Linux which makes it possible to obtain a maximum of informations about the system such as temperature(with lm_sensors) , CPU frequency, hardware(with PciUtils) , network , ACPI and orther information.




A helping tool for udev testers, coders, hackers and consumers. Main features are - Browsing the sysfs tree via udev, Reports udev device info and udev properties, Filter and search devices, Monitorize udev device events.



gatotray is a tiny CPU monitor displaying several stats graphically (usage, temperature, frequency) in small space, and tight on resources.

Creates a list of attached disks without root privileges (similar as ldisk -lu, but with extensive device information).


hddtemp is a small utility (daemonizable) that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. informations (for drives that support this feature).
