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Supermicro PDSGE Mainboard Review: Desktop Platform from the Server-Maker (page 8)

Category: Mainboards

by Platon Scheblykin

[ 10/26/2005 | 07:04 PM ]

The last menu item with time-scale diagrams is “Thermal ”. As you may have guessed from the name, this page is responsible for the temperatures of the CPU and system in general:

The red lines on all the diagrams indicate the critical values of the monitored parameters. It is very convenient when you are checking the system status, because it allows you to better evaluate the danger from different upsurges.

In the “Item ” page you can check those parameters that should be monitored. All the unchecked parameters will not be monitored at all.

The next item is very unusual and interesting. It is called “Alert ”. It allows setting the alert system that will warn the user in case of system issues. Once all the settings have been adjusted here, the user may receive failure alerts by e-mail or pager message. Of course, you need Internet access in the first case and a modem connected to the telephone line in the second.