ok, so after seeing MMZ_Timelord's thread, and the lack of activity, I went ahead and ordered the following
2x MAX6655 chips
10 2N3904 transistors (to have some spares, at 8 cents ea)
24 awg shielded teflon silver cable
so now I need some setup thoughts
on the cable:
connect to ground on the chip end, leave unterminated on the transistor end? Is the cable I got from eBay, okay?
on the soldering:
holy crap these things are tiny....where's the cheapest place to get a couple sockets so I can not spend all day trying to solder this?
on the connection to the mobo:
I have a NF7-S, and I have a header for the SMBus....I just need to connect SMCLK and SMdata, right? Do I need the 10k resistors from the SMCLK and SMdata lines to Vcc? Where can I get those connectors that go to the header on the motherboard? (don't know what they're called)
So, I have the following sensors:
2x2.5V
2x3.3V
2x5.0V
2x12.0V
2 onboard temp sensors
4 remote temp sensors
so I was thinking:
vcore
vdimm
3.3v rail
5v rail
12v rail
case ambient
water
rad airflow inlet
PSU
CPU core (will the SOT-23 package fit next to the die? REALLY don't want to try to cut out the on-die sensor from the mobo, as I like the failsafe shutdown
finally, what kind of accuracy do you estimate from this setup?
thanks for the time