How to get the temperature of motherboard of a PC (and other hardware statistics)?

Question

does any one know how to get the current motherboard, processor or HD temperature statistics?
In GNU/Linux, I know I could use something like hddtemp or sensord to get the info, and then parse it... but in Windows: How can I do this? And, Can it be done with with C# or Java or any other hight level programming language?
Thanks!

Answer 1

I would argue that when the right configurations are in place, it can be superior to windows's one.

http://www.lm-sensors.org/ is what does all the work. I had that plugged into RRDgraph & Munin and I was monitoring the temperature of my room over a period of almost a year and had nice pretty graphs. Also showed me my CPU fan was slowly wearing down, and I could see the line sloping down over a long period and know it was on the way out.

http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/trunk/doc/developers/applications is what you want.

(Oh wait, I fail. You're on *nix wanting to do it on Windows, my bad :( ..um.. well. Good luck. Maybe I'll leave this here in case somebody finds your post while searching for the contrary)

Back when I did use windows, all I recall is Ye' Old Motherboard Monitor ( Discontinued ). Wiki article says there is speedfan and that looks like your best option. Programmatically, I guess you'll have to find the hardware specs and dig through Windows API and stackloads of arbitrary bus address offsets.