System monitor widgets for your Windows desktop
Spacedash puts live PC stats on your Windows desktop as widgets: CPU, GPU and memory load, disk and network activity, storage, battery, and temperatures and fan speeds. They are free, and you arrange them yourself on any monitor.
Load figures come from Windows and work on any PC. Temperatures come from the NVIDIA driver or from HWiNFO.
The widgets
SystemFree
CPU, GPU and memory load, live.
CPUFree
Processor load as a card: the figure, a live graph, recent peak and cores.
GPUFree
Graphics load as a card: the figure, a live graph, recent peak and your graphics card.
MemoryFree
Memory in use as a card: the figure, a live graph, what is available, cached and committed.
SensorsFree
Temperatures, fans, clocks and power, from your GPU driver and HWiNFO.
DiskFree
One drive as a card: how full it is, used, free and its size.
Network activityFree
Download and upload as two live graphs, each on its own scale.
StorageFree
Free space on your drives.
NetworkFree
Download and upload speed right now.
BatteryFree
Battery levels of this PC and your wireless devices.
Speed testFree
Test your internet: ping, download and upload.
ReadoutFree
One number from your PC, as a big figure, a ring, a bar or a graph.
Game modePremium
The game you are playing, with live FPS, 1% lows, a frame-time graph, and CPU and GPU load and temperatures.
Start with one tile, or build a wall
System is the quick answer: CPU, GPU and memory as three bars in one small tile. When you want more, the CPU, GPU and Memory cards each give one component its own live graph, and they line up side by side as a monitoring strip. Disk shows how full a drive is, and Network activity graphs download and upload.
Readout shows any single figure large, for the one number you care about.
Load works everywhere; temperatures need a source
- CPU, GPU and memory load are read from Windows. GPU load covers NVIDIA, AMD and Intel graphics, with no vendor software.
- On NVIDIA cards, GPU temperature, fan, power and video memory come from the driver.
- CPU temperature, and temperatures on AMD and Intel graphics, come from HWiNFO with Shared Memory Support switched on.
- None of it needs administrator rights.
How often it updates
Under Performance → Update speed, choose every second (the default), every two seconds or every five. The slower settings are lighter on the PC.
While you play
Under Performance, “While you play” decides what Spacedash does when another app is full screen: keep running, pause, or stop and free its memory. Game Mode, a Premium widget, shows the game you're in with its FPS, 1% lows and frame times next to CPU and GPU load and temperatures.
Step by step
Questions
How do I show CPU and GPU usage on my desktop in Windows 11?
Install Spacedash, open Layout, tap an empty cell and add System, or the CPU and GPU cards for a graph each. They're free.
Are the system monitor widgets free?
Yes: System, CPU, GPU, Memory, Disk, Sensors and the other monitoring widgets are part of Spacedash Free. Game Mode is Premium.
Does it show FPS?
FPS is in Game Mode, the Premium widget, for the game that's running. The free widgets show load, temperatures, fans and power.
Will it slow my PC down?
You control the cost: set the update speed to two or five seconds, and choose under “While you play” whether Spacedash pauses or stops when a game is full screen.
Make your desktop yours.
Free for Windows 11 and 10. No account needed.