User’s Manual

4-5ASUS Control Center Express
4.3 Hardware Sensor (software)
This item allows you to view S.M.A.R.T attributes or edit the threshold value for
items such as voltage, temperature, fans, and graphics card. This item is software
controlled and values may differ with the hardware version. Please refer to
5.6
Hardware sensor (hardware)
for more information on
Hardware
mode.
Some options such as Graphics card may only be available if you have the
component installed on your client device.
Click on
to hide or show sub items.
This item will not be available if your device is not logged into an OS
environment, or is not connected using a management LAN port which
supports RTL 8117 LAN IC.
If your motherboard supports RTL8117, you may switch to
Hardware
mode, or you may view the hardware sensor information of the previous
time the device was powered on if the device is currently powered off.
S.M.A.R.T.
Displays disk status, click on this item to show detailed S.M.A.R.T. attribute
information.
Voltage
Displays the CPU Core Voltage, and other voltage related items. You may
edit the threshold for these items.
Temperature
Displays the CPU status and temperature. You may edit the threshold for
these items.
Fans
Displays the status and fan speed of connected fans. You may edit the
threshold for these items.
Graphics Card
Displays the fan speed, voltage and temperature of external AMD or
NVIDIA graphics card. You may edit the threshold for these items.
The information displayed may vary according to the support
of the graphics card’s driver. Items not supported will be
displayed with a
Hardware sensor is not supported by the
graphics driver
message.