Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) is a new open and free standard for monitoring and controlling the parameters of power supplies, cases and different kinds cooling, including water. The standard specifies a protocol handling communication between components making it possible for the user to change and tweak settings, and monitor temperatures and other parameters. ESA is built upon the already established USB HID (Human Interface Device) specification, but with expanded support for monitoring and controlling parameters of compatible components.
The ESA standard is supported by many of the major OEMs, PC builders, and component manufacturers such as Dell, HP, Alienware, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, CoolerMaster, CoolIT, Silverstone, and many more. More information on the specification, requirements and which manufacturers that support the standard can be found over at www.nvidia.com/ESA.
Several articles on the new standard have been published already and while they certainly praise the initiative there is a flaw in that NVIDIA has only specified the interface, but not exactly what kind of information that is suppose to be monitored. Manufacturers are likely to supply different amounts of information. And the standard is of course limited to coming NVIDIA platforms, although there’s nothing stopping people from developing applications for the current, or even the older platforms from NVIDIA.
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