Hardware Monitor/Sensor Add-on Boards?

DeeKayWon asks: "I'm going to be setting up an old 200MHz Pentium as a server in my house, and I'd like to be able to monitor things like the voltages, fan speeds and the CPU and chassis temperatures remotely using something like ksysguard. The problem is, the motherboard I have doesn't have a hardware monitoring chip. I would think that someone would be selling something like an ISA board with a sensor chip on it, but my search has been fruitless so far. Does such a beast exist?"

Comments

Temp sensor from PC Power & Cooling

[Chope]

PC Power and Cooling offer a stand-alone temperature sensor with a piezo alarm called the 110 Alert. Not exactly what you're looking for, but at $15, probably about as cheap a solution as you'll find.

Fans & CPU temp?

[ameoba]

Go lo-tech, and save yourself the hassle. Don't bother with a fan, just get a big heatsink. Heatsinks don't fail, fans do, a P200 doesn't run that hot to start with.

The only fan you'll really need would be the one on your PSU, and most PSUs don't have monitor wires on the fans anyways.

As for voltages, who really cares? With the price of P200s, you could replace the system several times for what any sort of add-on monitoring hardware would cost.

If you want harware monitoring, buy yourself the cheapest socket370 Celeron (or Duron, but they run a bit hotter, slower Celerons can run nicely w/ passive heatsinks) you can, the cheapest board you can find that still has hardware monitoring on it, and a 128MB stick of cheap ram, and put it into the case you're using for the P200, and you'll probably come out ahead of the game.