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CPU / GPU Heat Display

336 points posted to Gaming by doomlord52 02/18/07

This is something every gamer wants and needs: something to tell Him / Her when the system is getting hot. Ive seen them sold seperatly, but they take up an entire drive bay. If Dell could make one that is small and takes up some useless area of space, then you would no longer have crashes / lags due to heat. This would be even more usefull if you could have them in laptops, due to the fact that they dont have the best cooling system.

danny.wall
02/19/07		 You can do this in Linux with several free pieces of software. gkrellm, gdesklets, ghosd (On Screen Dirsplay), etc.
monday90
02/21/07		 Irrespective of which OS you use this is a very good idea. For example a tiny OLED display integrated into the top of the keyboard.
doomlord52
02/22/07		 yea, there IS an LCD display on the G-15 Keyboard... but it doesnt do heat displey... on game stats....
jorge
05/16/07		 This boils down to allowing the user/customer access to the sensors on the motherboard so we can monitor our systems, not only cpu temp but cpu fan, system fan and all the other nice sensors on the system. Well like we have with all the motherboard manufactures.
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