Author: parsec
Subject: Fatal1ty X99X Killer Sensors
Posted: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:18am
Of course the ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer has a sensor chip.
It provides many more readings than your old Asus board can provide.
Linux does not (apparently) have the capability to read data from modern sensor chips used on current mother boards.
It looks like Linux is reading the ACPI information, and ISA information. It's not done that way anymore. Things have changed since 2008, when that Asus board was designed.
My ASRock X99 board, similar to yours and using the same Nuvoton sensor chip, provides this information to a good third party monitoring program. I could not fit all of it on one screen, sorry. The "mother board" temperature reading is a simplified concept that is basically useless now.
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Subject: Fatal1ty X99X Killer Sensors
Posted: 06 Aug 2016 at 11:18am
 DJViking wrote:Does the ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer have motherboard temperature sensor? The only temperatures I can see in Linux is the CPU. Also I have 3 fans on my 360mm CPU radiator and one chassis fan. On my old ASUS P5Q motherboard I get the following sensors
On my new ASRock motherboard all I get is the section "Adapter: ISA adapter" In the BIOS/UEFI it was able to read the fan speed of 2 out of 3 CPU radiator fans. Both my PCs have installed the linux package acpica | This is a set of tools to display and debug your BIOS ACPI tables |
Of course the ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer has a sensor chip.
It provides many more readings than your old Asus board can provide.
Linux does not (apparently) have the capability to read data from modern sensor chips used on current mother boards.
It looks like Linux is reading the ACPI information, and ISA information. It's not done that way anymore. Things have changed since 2008, when that Asus board was designed.
My ASRock X99 board, similar to yours and using the same Nuvoton sensor chip, provides this information to a good third party monitoring program. I could not fit all of it on one screen, sorry. The "mother board" temperature reading is a simplified concept that is basically useless now.
