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Software by Manufacturers
Many of the tier 1 motherboard manufacturers now bundle overclocking and monitoring software with their motherboards. Gigabyte and MSI for example have their EasyTune and PCAlert/FuzzyLogic software, respectively, that lets you monitor and tweak your system settings in real time without having to reboot into the BIOS.

3rd Party Software
If your manufacturer does not supply their own software, you can check out some 3rd party free software like MotherboardMonitor. MotherboardMonitor can be minimized as a tray icon or used as an OSD overlay (On Screen Display) so you can always keep an eye on your sensors.

Another good package is Speedfan. As the name suggests, SpeedFan is intended to help you control your fan speeds, but it also includes monitoring of temperatures, fan speeds and voltages. It can even monitor your hard drive temperature (if your HD supports it) and also show S.M.A.R.T. info. Pretty cool huh? Check out SpeedFan here.

Hmonitor is also highly recommended because it includes a software cooler that kicks in when your CPU is idle (this saves energy, reduces idle heat, and might also reduce fan noise if you have temperature sensing fans). You can check out Hmonitor right here.

http://www.hmonitor.com/


Linux Hardware Monitoring
For Linux environments, we use lm_sensors, a free linux package that is continually updated by the lm_sensors team.

Lm_sensors comes in RPM packages or as source that you can compile on your own system. We set up lm_sensors on the servers running Neoseeker.com using the source package and it's no picnic, but it works and it works well to monitor temperature, fanspeed, and voltage depending on what your hardware monitoring reports.

We recommend you check out their site here:

http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/