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On 02/04/2013 13:32, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> I've now installed mbmon and xmbmon and will be watching the CPU temp
> closely for awhile.
>
> I really wish that one or the other of those tools allowed setting a
> threshold CPU temp, beyond which the tool would emit an ear piercing
> alarm via the motherboard speaker... you know.. in case the regular
> external stereo speakers are turned off.
>

It's been a while since I used it but conky is pretty customisable.

Worst case you have it run your own scripts that returns monitored 
values and performs whatever steps you want at the thresholds.