diagnostic display for motherboard?

[glytch5]

Hello there. I was looking through my motherboard manual and noticed my board supports a TPM module... I thought that sounded kinda cool after researching what they are.

I started to see some other interesting things... they looked like M.2 cards that had LCD screens on them!
Im having trouble figuring out what to ask the google gods for, but is there such a thing that hooks up to a TPM module header, or somewhere else on a modern motherboard, that gives you a display of your CPU temp? Or anything like that?
I always thought those intel boards that come with this debug displays were awesome... I would love to have that! Thanks.

 

[HamBown81]

What motherboard do you have?

 

[glytch5]

an msi x370 pro carbon

 

[HamBown81]

an msi x370 pro carbon

In the case of motherboards, TPU is an ASUS-specific thing. It stands for TurboV Processing Unit (TPU). It is automatic overclocking and generally not recommended to use.

It does not stand for Tensor Processing Unit, which you may have been researching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit

 

[glytch5]

an msi x370 pro carbon

In the case of motherboards, TPU is an ASUS-specific thing. It stands for TurboV Processing Unit (TPU). It is automatic overclocking and generally not recommended to use.

It does not stand for Tensor Processing Unit, which you may have been researching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit

I was referring to TPM. It has to do with a encryption module for security.

 

[glytch5]

I was just noticing that there are cards that connect to that TPM header... wanted to see if there were any diagnostics cards that hook up to that. Or anything I could use!

 

[HamBown81]

I was just noticing that there are cards that connect to that TPM header... wanted to see if there were any diagnostics cards that hook up to that. Or anything I could use!

Ahh, sorry, I must have misread...

I don't know of anything like that but I would also be interested to know the answer.

 

[HamBown81]

Everything that I have read (in the last few minutes) is strictly related to hardware-based endpoint security.

I didn't see anything related to diagnostics or alternate uses for that port.

 

[glytch5]

ah shoot... I saw a couple on the Egg that looked like you could slide them into your M.2 slot, and had a LCD display. And a couple that hooked into your expansion slots... I am surprised no one has made anything like this... would be sweet.

 

[HamBown81]

ah shoot... I saw a couple on the Egg that looked like you could slide them into your M.2 slot, and had a LCD display. And a couple that hooked into your expansion slots... I am surprised no one has made anything like this... would be sweet.

Would be certainly be cool to have something like real-time voltage monitoring or other diagnostics that don't rely on software / OS support and don't require electrical engineering skills to pull-off.

 

[glytch5]

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAAZM45N7495&cm_re=computer_diagnostic-_-9SIAAZM45N7495-_-Product

This is the sort of thing i'm talkin about... but with this one, how would you see the display? the card is facing up or down...

 

[HamBown81]

That one plugs into a PCIe slot, so you would be able to see the numbers. Pretty cool, I wonder if it works?

Either that or it is stealing your bandwidth for cryptocurrency mining...

 

[glytch5]

yeah but the numbers would be facing straight up or down... my computer sits on my desk so I would have to stand up to see it. the screen portion should be on an angle.

 

[HamBown81]

yeah but the numbers would be facing straight up or down... my computer sits on my desk so I would have to stand up to see it. the screen portion should be on an angle.

What are you gonna do for $5

Pretty sketchy either way. Let the fault components show your hands.

 

[glytch5]

I wasn't going to use that one lol. I was just speaking in terms of this is the style of device I am looking for. I want a temp readout that I see when looking at my glass case is all... that was just an example.

 

[HamBown81]

I wasn't going to use that one lol. I was just speaking in terms of this is the style of device I am looking for. I want a temp readout that I see when looking at my glass case is all... that was just an example.

I know, lol, it's a cool idea

 

[HamBown81]

There are some cool front panel fan controllers that have temp readouts

 

[glytch5]

ah! unfort! I do not have traditional bays on any of my cases... so i'm not sure how that could work.

 

[HamBown81]

ah! unfort! I do not have traditional bays on any of my cases... so i'm not sure how that could work.

Nothing a little modification couldn't take care of

 

[glytch5]

My case is all tempered glass full of lights... no goofy stuff! thermaltake view 71.

 

[HamBown81]

Oooo pretty.

 

[HamBown81]

You don't really need more to look at do you?