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Have you ever turned your computer off, and noticed suddenly, just how quiet the room became? It is pretty amazing how loud those fans are when you compare their humming to pure silence. Many cases these days are built with silence in mind, but some are not designed to attenuate the noise. And, in some cases, the enthusiast, has purposely placed additional fans inside the case in order to wring out every last ounce of air overclocking they can get. But eventually, the incessant whine of the fans begins to bother, yes, even annoy. It is at that point, when having a fan controller becomes particularly useful. NZXT has released the Sentry Mix Fan Controller.
NZXT entwickelt sich immer mehr zum Tausendsassa im Bereich der PC-Komponenten. Neben Gehäusen, Netzteilen, CPU-Kühlern und diversem Moddingzubehör umfasst das Angebot des amerikanischen Unternehmens mittlerweile auch Lüftersteuerungen. Die Sentry Mix bietet mit der einzelnen Steuerung von sechs Kanälen ausreichend Möglichkeiten alle wichtigen Lüfter bzw. Lüftergruppen einzeln zu regeln. Und selbst wenn mal mehrere Lüfter an einem Kanal angeschlossen werden müssen, macht die Sentry Mix nicht schlapp. So kann jeder Kanal mit bis zu 50 Watt belastet werden, was sogar für Pumpen einer Wasserkühlung ausreichend Leistung bedeutet. Wie sich die Sentry Mix von NZXT im Test schlägt, erfahrt ihr auf den folgenden Seiten.
Looking back at the last fan controller I saw from NZXT, the Mesh, this unit as I mentioned used the same plastic tray, but much different electronics as well as a completely different front panel. The Mesh had of course a mesh exterior plate with slider switches across the front, five of them in fact. The Mesh delivers up to 30W of power across all five of the channels, and in this new release is something that gets completely reworked. There is also a surprise on the front, a special coating over the plastic, but I will save that little bit until we get to see it after the unboxing.
The NZXT Sentry Mix 2 Fan Controller is capable of adjusting the speed of 6 fans, 30 watts per channel, LED lighting, 3/4pin connectors, stylish and affordable. It might be a basic fan controller, but it doesn't what it's supposed to do very well.
The NZXT Sentry Mix 2 is a simple fan controller with six channels, each one controlling one fan up to 30 W. Let's test it.
The NZXT Sentry Mesh is a fan controller with five channels, each one controlling up to 30 W. Let's check it out.
It's nice to think as the user you have full control over as many aspects affecting your PC as possible, to make sure that this is the case selecting the right core components is very important. It's easy however to overlooked the control of the multiple cooling fans within the PC. It's at this point that you might consider a fan controller to allow you to take control of the PCs cooling and allow you the flexibility of changing it to suit your needs when required.
Childhood is quite a mystery. We breeze across this period suppressed by greater powers (Parents or guardians) in our struggle to gain an abundant amount of sweet treats and rad toys. We swear to ourselves that one day we will have complete control over our lives, to which we can buy an infinite amount of ice cream without the consent of this greater authority. Little do we know, a blink of an eye brings us to our juvenile adolescent period in which the pursuit of such childhood dreams becomes nullified by what Katy Perry refers as the "Teenage Dream" (Horny teens in puberty, haha). If you are a regular reader here at APH Networks, than you know of the crazy biweekly LAN parties that consist of various headshots; it's also the only time I get to pwn my boss without getting fired. However, what we have not told you here at APH is that we tend to make midnight trips to the grocery store in search of ice cream. That is not to say that we are a bunch of immature children that are only in pursuit of sweets and games. It simply means we like the midnight drag race that goes with it (Just kidding). Let's just say we like to go back to our own roots. In fact, recently, I received an interesting review unit that also goes back to its childhood -- the Sentry Mesh fan controller by NZXT. We here are all familiar NZXT's chassis that include basic fan controllers or their more fancy LCD touch screen controllers. However, something we just have not seen is a basic 5.25" slide switch fan controller. Itching to find out what our thoughts are? Read on to... you know the drill.
NZXT's newest fan controller eschews touchscreens, blinking lights, and complexity for five sliders - linear potentiometers. Both elegant and simple, the Sentry Mesh fits in without standing out - especially on the many cases with steel mesh front panels.
There are all sorts of ways to tame the noisy array of fans within your PC case. Some of them are rather fancy, but have a higher learning curve. Some cases come with very basic fan rheostats that control all of your fans at once. Sometimes you want a no-nonsense direct way to control each fan individually, but you still want it to be worthy of your modded PC case.
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