Peripherals if you could only monitor 3 paramaters of your PC what would it be

as the title really,

for my design, i can put in 3 analogue "dial" style guages, but what to monitor. and it doesnt have to be just temp.

the spec of the setup is not yet finished, but it will have a beffy GPU, and 1 HDD and a basic water cooling setup

was thinking GPU temp
processor temp

and then i'm stuck

water temp? is that worth it?

or processor clock speed?

help please

 

How about ambient temp of the air inside the case?

 

CPU temp
GPU temp
CPU load?

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CPU temp
GPU temp

CPU Load

Always good to know is a program has gone ballistic on the CPU

Edit: in your case maybe water level if its not easy to see.

 

None, because if anything goes bad, the hardware in question would have a safety system (usually throttle or shutdown, or driver crash (if it can do this)).

That is of course, after making sure that the computer can sustain heavy stress load tests, and of course, can cool off at a normal pace, as the computer returns idle.

Basically, what I am saying, is aside from looking cool by having fancy graphics and flashing lights (maybe it's our love from old sci-fi movies or spy movies with the cool rotating tapes on the back, and lights that does nothing), but it isn't critical.

But if I HAD TO CHOOSE (for some odd reason), it would be the temperature of the CPU, GPU and chipset. Memory usage is useless.. when your out.. Windows will tell you, as for HDD free space.. come on. That would be a steady boring, non moving graph, especially with our ~1TB+ HDD's.

 

TBH i do agree, and this will be my first PC that has any form of guage (hardware or software versions) its just simply to look cool, and it solves a problem and fills a hole, thats why it can only be 3, and they are going to be dials.

 

CPU Temp + Vcore
GPU Temp

 

CPU Temp
CPU VCore
GPU Temp

 

CPU Temp for sure, but I remember one of the old CPC mags that showed how to make an analogue dial show the HDD usage, by linking it up to the HDD LED pins. I would also monitor the RAM usage or CPU load - I guess CPU load would be more interesting to look at but there is a certain satisfaction to be had as RAM usage gradually goes up when you load a big game, or start up the computer. It would have to have some fancy software though.