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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:45 pm    Post subject: ESA - Enthusiast System Architecture
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Nvidia announces ESA specification
Standardizing system monitoring
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The ESA spec blends hardware and software to create a framework for monitoring and controlling PC components. On the hardware side, components are equipped with analog sensors to monitor variables such as temperature, voltage, fan speed, and so on. Those sensors hook into an embedded microcontroller that translates their analog output into digital signals reported to the PC over USB. ESA is actually built around the USB specification for human interface devices, or USB HID—the very same spec that governs mice and keyboards—so getting ESA-equipped hardware to converse with your PC should be as easy as plugging in a USB jack.


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NVIDIA Introduces ESA - Enthusiast System Architecture

A couple of the nicer utilities available with any motherboard chipset are NVIDIA's NV Monitor and nTune. They only work completely on NVIDIA chipsets, and not all manufacturers have implemented all the hooks necessary to support the software utility. However, when it is available and working properly it provides a lot of info about your system and a fair amount of system control. When the NVIDIA 680i was our cooling test motherboard we used NV Monitor to measure CPU temperature, in a large part because we found the utility easy to use and it provided very repeatable results.

nTune also works on any motherboard to control NVIDIA video cards, which it can do automatically or manually. However, on an NVIDIA chipset like the 680i nTune has many additional capabilities. As we saw in the 680i launch, nTune 5.05 had ambitions to become the control center for overclocking your motherboard and video card. Of course, this only worked at launch if your motherboard had an NVIDIA 680i chipset, you used an NVIDIA 8800 video card, and the manufacturer fully implemented the nTune hooks. NVIDIA has expanded nTune with new hardware introductions, but many computer enthusiasts - the primary target of the utility - still seem to either ignore or at best feel ambivalent towards the tool.

One thing was very clear in that introduction, however. NVIDIA had a great interest in providing enthusiasts with all the overclocking tools they could to set NVIDIA apart as being the company for enthusiasts. With each new chipset, the enthusiast tools seem to get a bit more ambitious.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:26 am    Post subject:
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NVIDIA ESA - Enthusiast System Architecture
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To remedy this situation, the crew at NVIDIA has architected a new open standard the company hopes will be adopted across the industry. ESA, or the Enthusiast System Architecture, as it is known, was designed for real-time monitoring and control of PC power supplies, chassis and water cooling systems.


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First Look: Enthusiast System Architecture
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During the recent Nvidia Editor’s Day at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, it talked about more than just graphics cards and chipsets – the company also talked about how it feels the enthusiast’s PC can evolve even further. This is something that we have been hearing from a lot of manufacturers recently, they’re all trying to predict how the next-generation enthusiast’s PC is going to evolve. Many are great ideas, but none have had the industry support that ESA, or Enthusiast’s System Architecture has gathered.
Over the course of this article, we’re going to outline what exactly ESA entails, the big names in the industry that support the technology along with how the technology could be implemented and improved in the future.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:18 pm    Post subject:
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Cooler Master Announces ESA Chassis, PSU and Watering Cooling

It looks like the folks at Cooler Master have committed to the new ESA standard in a big way. The company says the new Cooler Master COSMOS ESA is “immediately available worldwide” and should be available from Cooler Master shortly after the launch.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:26 pm    Post subject:
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Tagan joins Nvidia ESA initiative with new PSUs
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 11:04 am    Post subject:
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Gigabyte won't join Nvidia's ESA program

We heard that when Nvidia approached Gigabyte about its new ESA standard the company told Nvidia that they weren't interested, as they'd already spent two years developing the technology inside its Odin GT power supplies and it didn't see any reason to give this technology away for free to Nvidia and the other ESA partners.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:24 pm    Post subject:
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The Enthusiast System Architecture in action
ESA hardware under the microscope
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 1:13 am    Post subject:
Man! I gotta say, the screenshots of the Monitoring system are sweeeet!!! I like the looks of that!

I didn't read through most of it...just checked out some pics. Is this something that will run in XP?

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:26 pm    Post subject:
-RYknow wrote:

...Is this something that will run in XP?

-RYknow


i think the better question is, "is this something that will run in vista x64?"
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:13 pm    Post subject:
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A Closer Look at ESA

Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) was announced at NVIDIA Editor's Day last October. The new and innovative system control interface was covered in our NVIDIA Introduces ESA. Just six weeks later there were already enough working ESA components to assemble a test system, and there has been a working ESA system resident at AnandTech since late December. The idea was to live with the ESA system so we could show readers exactly what kind of monitoring and performance you could extract from an ESA system.



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