Displaying PC temp using RGB LEDs?

[keoni6]

So i had this great idea that what if you could have LED strips be set to specific colors or to gradually change colors based on the Temperature reading cumming from your PC. For example, a PC at idle would have it's LED's Set to blue or light green and then as the PC begins to heat up, the colors would gradually shift over to reds. I started looking around for something like this but have come up empty as i just can't find anything with how i am wording this. I don't think something like this would be too hard has most motherboards have an LED header or you could run multiple LED strips seperatly for different temp sensors through cards or even USB controllers. 

 

If Linus sees this, you should defiantly see if this could be a video as this would be sweet, imagine a PC case where a LED strip illuminate the front panel is set to CPU Temps and GPU Temps are shown through Internal LED's illuminating  the insides. I know so many people, my self included, who would love this feature as it would give us a visual representation/que of temps without having to open and sustain a monitoring software. Imagine this on a Render farm in a firm  where one glance will tell you that the Station is in use or still working based on its temps. or a Server rack where each mounted portion ( HDD, GPU, etc.) could be illuminated via a strip up[ front based on color sense for temps. 

 

This may just be the next big step for RGB everything, giving a real purpose to having you PC look like a techno nightclub.

 

Feel free to steal my idea for your own, just give me a setup of this

[Zzzzz69]

This is a great idea! Linus should make a thing about this. 

[mmk]

This is capable on my Asus Z370 Prime board for the onboard rgb lights using Asus Aura.

[S h u r i k e n]

22 minutes ago, mmk said:

This is capable on my Asus Z370 Prime board for the onboard rgb lights using Asus Aura.

Yep, this is already available in AURA Sync

[S h u r i k e n]

Oh, and btw, servers have load monitors on the front of them already

[Jtalk4456]

45 minutes ago, keoni6 said:

Temperature reading cumming from your PC.

Banned for sexual content

[Jtalk4456]

46 minutes ago, keoni6 said:

I'd turn the lights upside down so it rises to the red not falls to it, but that's just my opinion

[JZStudios]

On 6/1/2018 at 9:28 AM, keoni6 said:

 

Up yours... !

 

Why not just a single RGB that runs through the spectrum? Alternatively, a lot of recent motherboards have a digital number... face.. forgetting the word that shows the actual temps in C or F.

[Steven Porter]

I love the idea! My Asus board lets me set colors based on temps, but it's only a basic threshold (above temp X is one color, below is another.) I'm getting into some more serious/useful Arduino projects recently, so maybe I'll start working on a more utilitarian RGB setup like this.