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.