Hardware monitor IC

[Manasi D]

Hi, Can anyone please let me know, if all motherboards by default have hardware monitor ICs - for any processor.? when was this h/w monitor IC concept introduced? before that how was h/w monitoring done? Thanks in advance, Manasi

[Dan Neely]

IF you're referring to temperature and fan speeds, most do except for really old stuff. For anything else I don't know what's used, maybe an oscope?

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