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Poor man’s server temperature monitoring can be done utilizing LM75/LM78 chips. In Linux systems, Lm_sensors (http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/) is an open source software that does just this. In Windows, I found at least two freewares that can do this:

Motherboard Monitor
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/download.html
LM75/LM78 STATUS for Windows 1.50
http://www.vector.co.jp/soft/dl/win95/hardware/se074683.html

None of the above tools are tested by me though. I tried Lm_sensors but it complained it could not load “i2c-piix4″ because “Host SMBus controller not enabled”…

Combining Lm_sensors with MRTG can make a nice server temperature monitoring system, like the one shown below.