How to get the temperature of motherboard of a PC (and other hardware statistics)?

Question

does any one know how to get the current motherboard, processor or HD temperature statistics?
In GNU/Linux, I know I could use something like hddtemp or sensord to get t

Answer 1

This is going to vary quite a bit depending on your hardware. Once you figure out from your hardware vendor whether you have sensors on your motherboard, you might look into using SNMP and the HOST-RESOURCE MIB.

Use the Add/Remove Windows Components Wizard under Management and Monitoring Tools to get SNMP installed. Then you should be able to ask your Windows box for lots of info using standard systems management software like OpenView or Nagios.