For those that happen to have the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA or are shopping for a higher-end Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake desktop motherboard for Linux use, the ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA is the latest motherboard seeing hardware sensor monitoring support under Linux with the next version of the kernel.
The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA is seeing hardware sensor monitoring support tacked onto the “asus-ec-sensors” driver within the hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem. The support patch was queued up this week into hwmon-next ahead of merging for the Linux 6.16 merge window opening in a few weeks.
The sensor monitoring support includes temperature sensors and even water flow monitoring if using a capable liquid cooling setup. The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA can still be found in retail channels for around $440~490 for Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs, five M.2 slots, USB 3.2 Genx2, dual Thunderbolt 4, onboard WiFI 6E, 10 Gb Ethernet, and other high-end desktop features.
Also patched in hwmon-next this week is support for the ASUS MAXIMUS VI HERO motherboard as an old Intel Haswell era motherboard finally seeing sensor monitoring support with ASUS-EC-Sensors.
This ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA and MAXIMUS VI HERO motherboard support joins the other currently supported ASUS motherboards by this driver as the PRIME X470-PRO, PRIME X570-PRO, PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI, Pro WS X570-ACE, ProArt X570-CREATOR WIFI, ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI, ProArt B550-CREATOR, ROG CROSSHAIR VIII DARK HERO, ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO (WI-FI), ROG CROSSHAIR VIII FORMULA, ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO, ROG CROSSHAIR VIII IMPACT, ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO, ROG CROSSHAIR X670E GENE, ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO, ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI), ROG STRIX B550-E GAMING, ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING, ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING, ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING WIFI II, ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING, ROG STRIX X570-I GAMING, ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING, ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING WIFI D4, ROG ZENITH II EXTREME, ROG ZENITH II EXTREME ALPHA, and TUF GAMING X670E PLUS.
