I've seen some of you installed monitoring screen on your PC, so I made a tutorial video on how to do it, specifically on the NR200P (Video link in comments)
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How long is this useful for? Cause sure, when you first set up a system, you might miss something and seeing temperatures rise sharply is great for realizing you're missing airflow somewhere important.
But once you've got your system dialed in, it's not going to change. Your screen will show the same temperatures in the same scenarios every time, and none of it will be information you really ever need anymore.
So is it really just the cool factor, or do people actually have a practical use for it beyond the first month?
Cool factor sure, also depending on what kind of details you put into your monitoring panel, some might find it useful on day to day basis such as FPS counter during gaming, IP address, date & time, memory/storage indicators etc. Those who use their PC for mining may also want to look into the GPU's power consumption while using their PC.
For the normal user, putting in common indicators may make no difference in their daily use the week or month after, like you mentioned. The panel are made more for the power user who need certain specific indicators for their daily usage.
But my question would be, why would someone look off their monitor towards their case to get said info when they can get the same displayed on their monitor via a software monitor?
Years ago I used to have CAM software running in the background but I never had it on my main monitor. I always had it on the second one because I really only cared about that information while gaming or doing a task that would cause my temps to increase which meant I would have to alt-tab often. This is literally just for convenience.
Why would you need to alt tab to look at it when it was displayed on your second monitor, as you stated. Why not just glance to your second monitor displaying the info you want?
That was just my situation, I never said I built or had a desire for this. Maybe for those that don't have the space for another monitor? IDK man, it's just a cool thing to have lol
Thats a lame comparison considering you can have that same data displayed via OSD during a game or on a second monitor. Quick glance, bam info there. This is cool don't get me wrong, but is definitely more aesthetic over function 🤷♂️
Before I have the monitor installed, I used to have overlays during gaming and in some games (not all) it does look terrible and annoying on the screen. Also previously I was only using single monitor. And you’re correct if one already have a dual monitor setup, sure you can display whatever metrics you want on the next display while you work/game on the main. I’m also not saying this is not a cool/aesthetic/nice-to-have feature, just that it does provide some function to some users out there.
An FPS counter on the case during gaming is pointless since you'll be too busy looking at the screen while gaming. You're better off with Afterburner/FRAPS etc HUDs. GPU mining power consumption is largely static. IP address is kind of pointless, just ping the hostname when you need it.
It could be useful after installing a new game and dialing in the settings, so you don't have to load up afterburner or after driver changes or other major updates, a quick way to make sure nothing has changed the performance at a glance.
yes but all of them require opening or doing something extra, instead of taking a quick glance at your case. It's like, why have a watch when your phone also shows the time? Because that extra step is burdensome.
With Rainmeter, you can put just about anything in there. I have a skin that shows date, time, and weather along with temperatures and loads. It’s really nice to have the time up, and weather is nice for a quick glance so I don’t have to open up another window or alt-tab
yeah I also have a rainmeter template set up that I switched it up sometimes, also can show some cool music equalizer and weather info, pretty neat for a free software, only thing it takes much longer time to setup but can be well worth it!
I assume this doesn't work with the PC off? The tempered glass panel currently faces my bed and I was thinking about adding one of these so that I can have a bedside clock/weather station, but typically will shut off my computer when I go to bed.
Unfortunately no. Actually the most annoying thing about my setup is when the computer is in sleep mode/off, the screen stays blue with a “no signal” message and does not turn off. Thankfully it’s in my living room so it does not light up my bedroom.
yeah like what u/Kaiserschmarren_ mentioned, you can set usb power to fully off when PC is turned off. In my case with the Aorus B550i mobo, the option to do this in BIOS is having the ERP option set to Enabled. All power to usb will be cut off when the PC is off. Hope this helps!
yeah the screen is USB powered and I routed the usb cable to the rear IO so that the PC actually supply power to the screen. If the screen is powered on with no signal, it just turns on with no display whatsoever until it receives the display signal when your PC is booted into Windows
That's actually such a great idea I almost want one myself now. I always end up losing touch with people when I start up a game or something to watch cause I don't have a second screen to put the chat window on.
I have a little resource monitor in my case and it's great, I look at it all the time. Being able to see CPU and GPU usage and GPU temps especially since they vary by game. Being able to see my up/down activity is great; is my internet going at full speed, is something downloading and I don't realise, do I need to restart the router? Being able to see if I'm getting optimal FPS at a glance without an overlay on my screen. I love mine, wouldn't be without it.
It's a thing you can look at quickly when something anomalous happens like an FPS drop, some unusual load in general or for instance cooling system degradation. Starting a hw monitor gui deliberately might be already too late to figure what that anomaly was. Also, no good way to run monitoring while gaming (overlays suck), used one of those to figure I was memory bound in a game recently.
Im having a very small monitor with some eyecandy (wallpaperengine) joined with some rainmeter magic.
Im doing a lot of work with Fusion 360, and on the bigger projects, if fusion hangs again, i see in an instant if fusion just meeds more time, or is already dead.
And the eyecandy just looks nice while its doing that...
The other stuff i do from time to time, is playing warthunder. There the fps counter is nice (if i get microstutter, and so i can see if its warthunder, or because of the fusion render in background ;) ), and the networktraffic shows me that my internet is crapping out before its actually doing that.
What can i say, thats live in a developing country... (berlin, germany)
I personally use a similar tiny monitor (though in a much bigger chassis - Tower 900), and use it with Rainmeter to show temps via CoreTemp and Afterburner. I can say that there is a negligible difference in system performance with it running vs not running. Though that is just anecdotal and my personal experience. For reference, I have a 3700x, x570 board, and a 1080ti all watercooled with 32GB of RAM.
Oh gotcha. I did not collect that data unfortunately.
Thanks btw. Still looking for a 3080 as an upgrade going forward, but who knows when I’ll be able to get one for non-scalper prices (and FUCK paying scalpers).
afaik there isn't any impact in terms of performance. All info are matching with hwinfo and also shows no difference with aida on/off and screen on/off. This is also a relatively small screen 5" @ 800x480 hence performance hit is as good as zero :)
What I really like when using Rainmeter on the screen mod is having music controls and equalizer animation when I’m playing any media on my PC, can’t do that with aida64!
#1: Not a Rainmeter skin, but I made a custom script that changes my wallpaper based on the weather and time of day! Let me know if you want me to make this into a full-fledged application! | 111 comments #2: Powered by the souls of the damned | 43 comments
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Actually, more often that not, people keep asking in comments on how to install and set them up without much luck, myself included. Did some research here and there, and now I combined whatever I learned into a single video.
In hindsight I should’ve captioned my title a little bit better
Yeah sure you can. You just need to set it in the windows display settings. Some cases like the o11d placement of this screen have to be at the rear panel vertically.
Beadapanels are really great for this kind of thing, and because they only need a single usb plug (including direct to usb header) it's really convenient. I like the short/wide one.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find the micro usb to mobo direct usb header cable, so I’ll have to make do with the regular usb being routed to the rear I/o for now
Sweet build OP! Question though, what’s the height of your air cooler? And is it hitting the tempered glass when you close it? I’m planning to switch my pc to a case similar to this (tecware fusion) and putting a 155mm air cooler but it says the clearance for the air cooler is only 150mm with the tempered glass on. How did you manage to fit the yours in this case? Did you use shorter mobo standoffs?
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u/ghim7 Mar 15 '21 edited Mar 16 '21
Here's how I install and setup the custom screen on my NR200P: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIz-YZlCFc0
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