Does such a thing exist?

[Lasherz]

Hello everyone, I haven't ever used this forum before, but I have used Anandtech for reliable reviews for almost 10 years now so there's a first time for everything.

What I was wondering is if there was a good alternative to front panel temperature monitoring displays for temperature probe reading. I noticed that some of the front units come with a few temperature probes that do their own monitoring and pipe the information to the LCD displays, but I would prefer the information handling and display to be handled by software. For example, ideally I'd like to have a PCI card that you can hook the probes to or perhaps one that plugs into an internal usb/firewire hook up. I'd much prefer software to cheap LCD displays and knobs that stick out and prevent my case from closing properly. Hell, the best case scenario would be one that could feed the temperatures right into existing programs that I already use, such as CPUID HWMonitor.

Any product like that out there? When I search I end up getting a bunch of unrelated field research external USB probes.

Well thanks in advance, hopefully I came to the right place.

 

[aigomorla]

discontinued however...
http://koolance.com/tms-200-software-thermal-interface-controller

I believe Bitfinex's Recon may also do it.
http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/products/accessories/recon

getting hwmonitors support is asking for too much, as those have set CPUID codes which the software itself monitors.
The recon however has HTTP support, so u could view it from any client / network, provided you have the software setup.

 

[Lasherz]

Awesome, thanks for the links. It's too bad about the first one, that one looks perfect.

As for the second one, it definitely does seem to be down the right road. Maybe after looking at some samples of the web interface I'll decide to go with it.

Hopefully I'll be able to find another supplier or a product more similar to the first one however. My plan is to have a wire on each hard drive, one for ambient case temp, a power supply probe, and two for liquid temps, so a max of 7+ would be phenomenal. At least now I'll have a reference product to fully explain what I'm looking for. :biggrin:

Hehe, yeah I figured @ hwmonitor's support. It's too bad gaming motherboards don't have probe options built in, would be a nice selling point vs other brands.

Just curious, but does anyone know what type of power draw the probes have? I was thinking it would be microamps @ 12v, but if it's more maybe 5 per chip is truly a design limitation on a single molex.