Hi just about to get some stuff for my new WC setup. I just need to know how essential the 'monitoring' block actually is? Its 50odd quid and if i have to be physically at the case to actually read it, then whats the point? This is for a water-cooled rack-installed PC so I dont see it at all. Im thinking I can rig up something using ESPhome later if i needed to, and it likely wont cost me 50quid. All the thermistors I have seen I dont think just connect to a motherboard do they, so I dont see the point in it - any ideas, before I pull the plug
you can drive a WC setup even without any aditional monitoring as your Mobo / GPU / CPU already has built in few sensors and monitoring / speed / voltage control..... but it gives you more control and a aditional savety layer. If I spend few thousand dolars for a system I wouldnt try to save money at that . I always use a monitoring and emergency shut down device (shut down if anything fails or too hot , even if system hang up or boot and cant do it itself )
