Temperature monitoring software

Shortly after booting into windows xp with bootcamp I notice the top left of my Imac (24" 2.4ghz alu) is warmer than when i'm in OSX. I've become quite paranoid of it when i'm playing games and was wondering if there's any temerature monitoring/fan adjusting software that works with XP and the imac hardware? I've seen some people have used Notebook Hardware Control for their MBPs, will this work on my imac?
Thanks!

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
It could be that the NHC works on an iMac.
You can also have a look at InputRemapper http://www.olofsson.info/index.html?inputremapper.html
Regards
Stefan

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Steve,
some other pieces of software ... used if you overclock your CPU or install a ZIF upgrade.
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