EVERY PC should have one of these! How to make a sensor panel! 

Phil needs to be a proper co-host on this channel. Guy actually has a good personality

Time stamps: 01:40 Hardware needed monitor differences (mistakes to avoid) 04:00 180º adapter 04:20 nasty joke lol 05:30 mounting tips 08:20 AIDA64 config 08:28 activating sensor panel 09:20 gauge type 11:10 bar graph type 13:40 line graph 15:05 duplicate items 15:45 config finished 16:05 some Windows config like it?

Just when I think there's nothing else I can add to my machine.................... What an awesome project, I can't wait to get started. Thank you for all the information.

Thanks for another AWESOME video! Watching your channel has taught me soooooo much! Just wanted to let it be known how much i appreciate the simple explanations, so idiots like myself can actually, build, and customize our own systems. Since I was a kid, I had always wanted to understand how a pc actually works, along with the hardware required. Even though I had a decent background with electronics, now after over two decades of trying, I finally found someone who speaks my own language... GEARHEADEEZ! Thanks to this vid, I will be installing a sensor panel in not only the two desktops I was able to build from watching the channel, but I will also be installing one in my car, so i can access my D.S.P. along with keeping an eye on my amplifier temps, voltage, amperage, and possibly db level, since its an SPL build. THANKS A MILLION! (Love the ZL1 by the way) MORE POWER!!!! ARGH ARGH ARGH

If Jay and other RU-vidrs didn’t post vids like these, my first build a week ago would have been shit. Thank you for all you do ❤️. Also... I needed this a week ago 😝

that was the most simple walk through ever and fast. WELL DONE ive been sitting on the Snowblind Mode but didnt know how to add stuff like this so now im more motivated to finish it since i have everything for the last few months...

This is what I need for my PC! No more setting up RGB to fit the bill and then guess the temperatures or having RGB going nuts for no reason! I'll be downloading this video so I won't loose it and have a reference for the future. Thanks!

Hey JZ, at 540 where you mention the hazard of grounding out the back plate, ive successfully used the foam padding that some of these low power devices ship with to create a dielectric buffer to any potential hazards, by trimming it to fit.

3:57 - that ain't a 90 degree adapter, that's a 180 degree...

Phil: “I’m going to go black and large.” If only it were that easy, Phil.

In the price breakdown, you forgot to mention the $40 per year, for the software lol, that caught me by surprise

Fantastic tutorial. I'm on the way to setting up a really nice sensor panel. Thanks guys. 👍🏼

3:59 sorry Jay, but that's a 180 degree adapter

Therapist: Ungraded Jay can't hurt you, he doesn't exist Ungraded Jay: 17:14

i dont have a raspberry pi panel but i do have the goverlay 3.5" and i love it... extremely customizable and having it mounted right under my monitors makes it a quick glance away from checking temps etc.... a lot easier than turning my whole head and looking in my case. even has local weather as an option in the title bar

I like it. You two are a good team. I don't see any need to expand jaystwocents would lose it's genuine feel. Keep it real guys we appreciate it.

How do I like this video a thousand times? I'm currently working on making an antique (1940's) radio cabinet into a PC case, and I've been trying to find out how I could put a small panel into the old tuner readout and make it display these kind of stats, all while making it look like era-appropriate radio dials/gauges. This is exactly what I was looking for to get started. I think it'll take alot of tinkering and maaaaybe further customization but it's an awesome start. Thanks Jay! Edit: I've downloaded Aida64 Extreme and found that you can choose to make your own custom gauges. You just need to create 16 png files that show the indicator going from 0-100 (or whatever scale you use). I was worried the gauge could only be square-ish with a circular style indicator like they have, but I made a quick-and-dirty test of a long, horizontal gauge with a red line that goes from left-to-right and it's working to show CPU and memory utilization. This will be perfect for making what I want! Now I just need to improve my Photoshop skills...

Late to the party and haven't even finished the video yet, but if you did a Phil Tutorial Series, I would watch, like and share every video. This was awesome and now I kind of really want to do my own. Thanks to both of you.

So, I just completed my first build...now comes the time to add neat stuff as I run across them. Gratitudes to JayzTwoCents...I followed this tutorial and viola! Success wiht Aida64 (shoutout to Phil)

Just in case anyone was wondering a 7 inch display like jay has in the video. With the tabs sawn off like the 5 inch display he modified. Fits in the back of a lian li 011 dynamic covering the Der Bauer plate and some of the rear vent almost like it was made for it. Also I'm running a 360 AIO push pull and that hangs down far enough to cover the cables and not impede the screen..

When do we get phil's own tutorial-series about everything he knows better than jay? 😆

Phil should've used Wingdings on Jay's PC, lol.

The first time I saw this, I thought it was the neatest thing ever! For my own design, I ended up using a pixel 3 I had laying around, some unused RAM mounts and going with Remote System Monitor. Unfortunately, I do have to plug it into an external USB port somewhere to keep the phone charged, but I also gain a lot of flexibility on where I want to put the display. Normally, it is left next to the PC case, but in other cases, I've moved it under my main PC monitor for much quicker glancing. I think the flexibility of being able to move it anywhere is awesome. I'll likely do a setup like this someday too. I'm sure there are many more uses for an additional screen as such. Excited to see where this goes. Thanks for sharing!

It's great to see your crew more involved.

small monitor becomes default monitor "WE BUILT AN ALL IN ONE PC !"💯🤭😳🧐

Could you add the template download for the display on your panel because it looks really nice and it would make it easier for the people who don't know how to use the software or just don't wanna deal with the hassle of getting everything as nice as your display

Used to do this with the 5.25 bays and a PS1 portable screen. Glad to see there is an updated version for modern times

What would be cool is one that fits in the optical drive spot. Allowing you to place it under or over your current disk drive .

Wouldn't mind paying extra if cases came with pre installed with precise cutting.

Im here to say thanks for Derek. I never saw your channel before so I hope all 455k of Dereks fans do the same. Really cool of you!

Great video and thank you J and Phil. Great tutorial. I've been using Aida64 for years but learned a bunch of stuff!

Amazing video as usual, the screen prices have doubled, but still worth it. Honestly the hardest part was designing a “cool” sensor panel. The software tips helped a ton. Would be nice to see some custom panel design tips!

Something like this had never crossed my mind. Definitely on the list with the new build!

"5 Inches was perfect for the size of the opening I got here". - JTC (Nov 2020)

Just did this! Looks amazing. I added a bunch of arbitrary “warning” colours to fan speeds and such. Looks awesome.

Thank you! A quick tips I found using ADA64, you can select multiple row and move them altogether and also, edit the settings too for more than one row, In case you change your mind afterwards :)

I did something like this maybe 20 years ago. Back in the day, was using those small 4-lines, dotted LCD green screens. It was fun, but again, gets useless for 95% of users - 3% have a valid use and the remaining 2% will keep maintaning it for the looks.

You could use an usb-c to hdmi adaptor and connect that to an internal usb-c header. That would save routing the hdmi cable out the back to the videocard. Also leaves the videocard free to run multiple monitors.

This reminds me of the little Alphacool LCD screen I had about 14-15 years ago, I had it set up to show all the necessary stats via a plugin for speedfan, was pretty cool at the time. Unfortunately Alphacool never bothered releasing updated drivers since like windows XP, and they refused to release the source code. Basically abandoned and sabotaged the product to ensure it'd be a useless paperweight to the people who bought them, great work guys.

Worked a treat on my Alien notebook, got a panel with a matching frame and stand. Great tutorial thanks

THANK YOU! I've had an LCD panel in my case for a while, and I hadn't found a software solution that worked right to actually use on it. I'd been using CAM, which wasn't customizable and didn't fit the screen perfectly. Rainmeter depends on finding someone who did art at the right size and resolution which is difficult on a tiny in-build screen. AIDA64 is the exact sweet spot of turnkey and customizable that I've been looking for. Seriously, thank you.

I love this mod! Now I wanna do it my self or get a small screen that I can sit on my desk

I actually bought this screen randomly and wondered what to do with it so now this is gona be perfect for when i build my pc!!! Thanks for the video

sooo glad i saw this episode, iv been looking for lcd options like the kraken for a new (2 decade overdue) build and found myself using your channel for ideas and get back upto speed with all the changes since core2duo early days... 😂... and im gonna spoil myself... great channel, keep up the amazing work👍🏼

I didn't even know i wanted one of these and unlike a lot of things ive seen on this channel that i want, it won't even make my wallet cry. Thanks Jay & Phil.

This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I want to do a DIY snowblind case and replace my side panel with an old monitor LCD.

I just finished this project with My Phanteks P500A. It turned out great. Thanks for the Aida64 info.

Sweet.... Got a project for the winter holiday. Greatly appreciated.

instead of replying to my question on how you did this ... you made a whole video about it

Jay is honestly more relaxing to watch than Linus. Keep it up Jay

I use LCD Smartie with a 4x20 lcd dot matrix. It does not look super hitech, but it has been giving me the same info I need on the fly like my GPU temp and load, CPU load, and ram load. I’ve been really wanting to upgrade to something much more sleek utilizing aida64. I’m looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us. Thanks so much for sharing.

Not really interested in this project personally, but watched because your vids are always interesting. Surprised to find this inspired me to consider a project that does have utility to me, albeit in a very different application. I'm thinking about doing a small display like this in conjunction with something like XSplit VCam to output webcam signal for an always-on webcam monitor for my wife, who is full-time work-from-home now. That way she can have a dedicated screen to see what the webcam shows, even before launching Zoom. Plus it would mean she could turn off the preview in Zoom to have more screen space to see the other people she's meeting with.

I love Aida64's build your own sensor panel func. One thing to note is different mobos will have different sensors available for Aida64 to read, a more high end mobo will likely show more available sensors.

if you remember we used to have these things in the form of 5.25" drive bay accessories that where more cool than useful

Great! Awesome project! This is something I had no idea I needed.

Another great video. Just ordered my sensor panel. Had to slow Phil down to 0.5 at times to keep up!!

*Jay:* But they're cheap *Me:* Umm, that's half the price of my gaming monitor.

I wanna do something similar with the "RGB skull" in my hades canyon. Making the eye leds show stronger red as temperatures go up, and the surrounding skull may show high usage of disk, cpu, ram, network, or such with different colors in different intensities.

I just came across this with a new build and definitely something I'll be adding. Thanks for the helpful tutorial. Well done!

This was neat. I like these little hacky DIY mods. Thanks guys.

I have been curious to test this with a mini projector onto the glass panel to see if could work

I 3-D printed a case for the 7" with holes on the back that screws into the SSD tray on my helio's it looks really good

Just installed mine!! Thanks for this

You guys are amazing, you have a video for everything I want to do to my pc... great work

Was wondering how you achieved this. I definitely want to try have a go at incorporating one these in my new build in the near future. Thank you both for sharing, appreciate it!

Can you share a download link to Phils screen setup / config. This looks really neat!

My sensor panel is still widgets with system info using things like Core temp to feed them data and I can see the info at all times on a secondary monitor. Works great for real time monitoring stats while gaming fullscreen on my main display.

Good idea, so simple yet ingenious.

Hey Jay, thanks for mentioning us! ❤️

Fantastic tutorial. I'm on the way to setting up a really nice sensor panel. Thanks guys.

It is pretty cool. Don't really have a clean place to put one on my case unless I cut my PSU shroud but in the future I'll definitely be considering something like this with my next case.

Awesome video. Just ordered one for my Lian li pc-011 dynamic XL. It’s going to look so goooood!

Any chance youu or phil would want to post a link to the template of the panel designs? It would be much appreciated. Awesome vid Jay

I just got a PI display today and experimenting with Aida . I know this vid is a couple years old but in regards to the issue with the screen staying on connected to the external USB port on the PC . What has worked for me is, I have my PI screen mounted externally on its own stands underneath my monitor, my monitor has a usb hub on it that is setup to turn off when the monitor is on standby. So I have the PI display powered of my monitor and shuts off when I shut down my PC. Thanks for the video, now the fun part of setting up the sensor configurations .

This video inspired me to install a sensor panel which I'm super happy with. Has anyone had issues with programs moving over to the sensor panel screen and hiding behind the sensor panel? I often come back to my computer to find that many open programs have been moved to that panel.

"All the way to the type of font" Comic Sans Intensifies

I just bought a stream deck and used the hwinfo plugin to display all kinds of technical stuff since every button is an actual LCD display. Don't think it could be any easier than that.

In regards to power/PC shutdown, I use a smart plug and have my bios set to power on after power loss restore. So I can remotely turn my computer on either on my phone or google home/alexa. Also, the plug actually tracks energy usage which is nice little thing. This would solve there still be some power going to USB ports even when the computer is "off"

Damn that's quite cool. Gonna have to try it on my rig! Cheers

17:13 ungraded btw

I wish I could put one of my old IPhone 4's in as a screen, that'd be fun. UPDATE: If you take the IPhone 4 apart you can get a mipi dsi shield/hdmi adapter off amazon or ebay for cheap and connect the screen following the same steps in this video :)

This has saved me probably many hours of work ahead of my project.

Thats just the coolest mod I've seen in years.

“LOOK AT ALL THAT GRAPHICAL POWAAAA!!!” 😂😂😂

There are flush mount brackets for 10-20 USD that could be part of the build. It would cover the back of the display to protect against grounding and also give you a mounting surface. Just a suggestion.

Bought a 7 inch monitor forever ago for a portable raspberry pi setup I never made. Glad I found a good use

Update on my sensor panel... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_pqkflJtHc8.html

It would be a awesome to get the file that you used for Black Ice cuz I love the layout and look of it.

17:15 i was worried about my monitor for a sec

Finished mine today looks good

Thsbjs guys , glad I found your channel . I always wondered how this was done

I've got a rainmeter setup rightnow, using Aida64 seems more customizable, If this competes with it I might try it out!

I've toyed with this idea for so long for such a strange nostalgia reason. I have used the Logitech g510 and now g510s for so many years now, and it's build in customizable display has been reading out these exact same stats. I don't think I can ever use a different keyboard after the time spent using this display. But maybe a display like this will let me finally change keyboards =D

great video...what i did was just toss an old galaxy note in my case and used remote system monitor from the play store..works flawlessly and saved me a bunch of extra steps

Nice job guys!

Steve: These SI's keep putting too much plastic blocking airflow Jay: Hehehehehe mini monitor

A better alternative to hot-glue is Lexel. It's not as cheap or readily available but it's 1000x cleaner, remains pliable for pressure-related issues and (unlike silicone) can be applied on top of prev applications - Down side is the drying time The reason you had glue runs all over is because you applied HOT glue to COLD metal. The moment hot-glue touches a cold surface a skin-barrier forms between the two. Now, the hot-glue remains hot, a micro-area is almost-kinda-maybe sticking to that metal but the majority of the hot-glue is simply wasted and cooling. You can warm up the metal prior to applying your hot-glue or go with something like Lexel.

Seems awesome! Love it, thanks a lot!

That's some next level futuristic piece of tech right there ladies and gentlemen! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 😁

Ive been doin this with my pc for 3 years and surprisingly the monitor is still going strong! my setup is a 7 inch pi monitor with rainmeter and wallpaper engine running on it