# CPU/GPU Temp controlled color (Flex) **URL:** \ **Category:** Software\ **Created:** [February 1, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.blinkstick.com/t/cpu-gpu-temp-controlled-color-flex/681 "2017-02-01T11:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Nocks](https://forums.blinkstick.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8491ac/32.png) [@Nocks](https://forums.blinkstick.com/u/Nocks)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.blinkstick.com/t/cpu-gpu-temp-controlled-color-flex/681/3 "2017-02-01T18:35:18Z")
Thank you! I was pleasantly surprised what an active community this product has and the uses people come up with. That the Client can not do it is a bummer but I see that this might be hard to implement, since you already pointed out that actually reading the temperature will probably be the hardest part. I have done a quick search and it seems that it might in fact be so difficult (because of different standards used by hardware manufacturers) that I cant do the data collection myself but need to use something like [this](http://openhardwaremonitor.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/OpenHardwareMonitor-WMI.pdf). I will most likely only ever use this machine with windows, so C# will probably be fine. I actually wrote some small useless programs with C# before, like the kind of programs you write in an IT class in school. But I never had the motivation to do more since I didnt see the practical use for me. Maybe this is finally the time for me to learn some programming 😃 Once I have the Flex I will get to it! --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.blinkstick.com/t/cpu-gpu-temp-controlled-color-flex/681)._