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    Possible FX lighting idea.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by Breaking Brian, Aug 9, 2010.

  1. Breaking Brian

    Breaking Brian Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't know if this exists yet or not, but would someone be able to (insert desired technological lingo here) in which the FX lighting would change depending on what temperature your GPU/CPU is running at?

    Once again, not sure if this is possible, but heck this would be awesomely useful!

    (start button mainly)
    Blue --> safe
    Yellow--> average temps
    Red ---> High temps.

    Heres hoping :D
     
  2. Phoestre

    Phoestre Notebook Evangelist

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    I think it is possible. If you mix HWinfo32 and Ingrater's AFX Winamp plugin, this would be what you get :D

    I recommend the following colors for each temperature grade:
    safe : green
    low-average temps : yellow
    high-average temps : orange
    high temps : red
    and black when the computer gets burned because alienfx will turn off then :D
     
  3. Breaking Brian

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    + rep if you do a small tutorial :D (start a new thread if ya want hehe).
     
  4. Phoestre

    Phoestre Notebook Evangelist

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    Small tutorial? Ehh.. Slow down mate.. lol
    I just meant that if Ingrater was able to make a plugin to change AlienFX colors based on the song' in Winamp, same could be done for HWinfo32.
     
  5. inap

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    wattos is the man for this job.
     
  6. Breaking Brian

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    Derp on my part >_<
     
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    hehe i like this idea.
    i know everest allows 3rd party access to its sensor info, also hwinfo32 has its own windows gadget so it must let somehow. need wattos (poor watto's has had soooo many requests lately haha)
     
  8. Breaking Brian

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    If watto could do this I'd gladly donate to his coffee and beer fund! (thats an idea for ya man).
     
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    Hey,

    Thats actually a pretty cool idea. Ill look into monitoring temps and see what I can come up with ^^. Still need to fix that stealth mode indicator :x
     
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    HWiNFO32 allows to access sensor data. Just enable the Sidebar option in Sensor settings and then you can read the sensor values from:
    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HWiNFO32\VSB]
    If you have any questions or need more help, I'll gladly assist.
     
  11. Breaking Brian

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    You rock man, (+1rep for your stealth indicator btw, It works perfectly for me)

    Looking forward to seeing what you can do with this lovely little idea :D