How to figure out temperature sensors physical location on Motherboard?

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I’m using the Hardware temperature monitor widget you get in KDE (opensuse 13.2) and it is showing these available sensors for my system:

acpi/Thermal_Zone/0/Temperature
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Physical_id_0
lmsensors/radeon-pci-0600/temp1
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_0
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_1
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_2
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_3
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_4
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_5
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_6
lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Core_7

The cores 0 to 7 are obviously the cores of my processor and the “radeon-pci-0600” is my graphics card. Now however it gets uncertain. Would the lmsensors/coretemp-isa-0000/Physical_id_0 be a sensor for my chipset?

And acpi/Thermal_Zone/0/Temperature I just don’t know. My only guess is that the motherboard I have has many fans and sensor and perhaps it is just showing the one sensor that’s hooked up?

My hardware is:

  • Motherboard: ASUS X99-E WS
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X
  • Graphics card: AMD HD 5870

If anyone knows how to tell where/what these less obvious sensors represent please let know.

2

in System Monitor,
then under
-File
–New Tab…
—ok (default will give a tab title ‘Sheet 3’)
—Sensor Browser
----Hardware Sensors
what is listed?

3

Lm_sensors has a good mailing list, they will surely be able to give you an answer.
Oherwise, you can ask Asus.

4

I had no idea about them, thanks!

5

Only the CPU cores and the graphics card - the two that were obvious. I didn’t know about all these sensors being listed in ont place though, awesome!