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Mini Display as a Sensor Panel (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by t_berium@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a small display (no more than 9 cm tall, preferably widescreen) that I can place under my monitor. I’d like to use Rainmeter to display sensor data from my PC on it. It shouldn’t require any special software; ideally, Windows should simply recognize and treat it as an additional monitor. Ideally, the ports would be on the back of the screen. A stand would also be great. While there’s a pretty large selection on Amazon, some of it is really unhelpful, even if you comb through the reviews. Does anyone have any tips for me?

Short version:

  • Preferably widescreen, but definitely no more than 9 cm tall
  • No software required for setup or operation
  • Recognized as a regular monitor
  • Ports on the back, if possible

Thanks in advance for your help!

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[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Price is secondary until I know what the market has to offer. I was thinking of something like Lian Li's 8.8 inch ultrawide screen, but I'm not sure if it works without the Lian Li software.

[–] Tolstoy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idk about the Lian li ones but a buddy got himself a corsair xenon edge on a deal and he's running it via hdmi. If I remember correctly it just popped up as a screen without any software but you need to double check it!

And I forgot to mention another category: keyboards with displays^^

[–] t_berium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the tip! The Corsair display does look pretty nice, but it’s far too expensive for what it actually offers. I also noticed that Corsair has a keyboard with a built-in Stream Deck and display, which would be a neat solution - but I don’t really want to have to look that far down at my keyboard.

In the meantime, I found out that the Lian Li display can be used without that rather odd software suite. So I’ll probably get an AIDA64 Extreme licence instead and build my own custom sensor panel. Since the display connects via USB directly to the motherboard, there should be little to no performance impact.