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Originally Posted by PhillyOverclocker 
And It's just my opinion, but I think those knobs are going to look pretty stupid sticking out of the front of your case. that thing just screams "cheap".
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To be fair, there are similar fan-control panels that look quite awesome IMHO,
this one for example, though it has 4 different temp probes, meant for CPU, Gfx, and 2 system temps, basically wherever you stick that flat lil probe-thingy. Therein lies the crux of the problem.
It's great everyone shared their personal choices in temp monitors, and thanks for those, but the original question posed by the OP was: where is best to stick the aforementioned flat lil probe-thingy for closest reading of actual temp? Regardless of how ugly/sexy the unit is, there's still a probe in need of a location. Some quick research shows not much info to be found, the unit I linked to has a laughable 'install guide' that focuses on setting the unit, nothing at all on placement of probes. There are even threads out there on the 'net from years ago telling folks to stick them
under the CPU between the pins!
Best I can come up with would be trial-and-error, with various placements of the probe maybe against the side of the cpu die or base of the heatsink (NOT between them!), wherever it'll squeeze in close without causing trouble, used in conjunction with one or more of the taskbar/windows/whatever monitors mentioned to see how well they match up. While you're unlikely to get them to sync perfectly, some futzing should get things close enough for casual monitoring.