CPU temperature monitoring

Question

For a programming project I would like to access the temperature readings from my CPU and GPUs. I will be using C#. From various forums I get the impression that there is specific information and developer resources you need in order to access that information for various boards. I have a MSI NF750-G55 board. MSI's website does not have any of the information I am looking for. I tried their tech support and the rep I spoke with stated they do not have any such information. There must be a way to obtain that info.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

For at least the CPU side of things, you could use WMI.

The namespace\object is root\WMI, MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature

Sample Code:

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher =      new ManagementObjectSearcher("root\\WMI",                                  "SELECT * FROM MSAcpi_ThermalZoneTemperature");  ManagementObjectCollection collection =      searcher.Get();  foreach(ManagementBaseObject tempObject in collection) {     Console.WriteLine(tempObject["CurrentTemperature"].ToString()); } 

That will give you the temperature in a raw format. You have to convert from there:

kelvin = raw / 10;  celsius = (raw / 10) - 273.15;  fahrenheit = ((raw / 10) - 273.15) * 9 / 5 + 32; 

Answer 2

The best way to go for hardware related coding on windows is by using WMI which is a Code Creator tool from Microsoft, the tool will create the code for you based on what you are looking for in hardware related data and what .Net language you want to use.

The supported langauges currently are: C#, Visual Basic, VB Script.