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Ultra 7-Channel Fan Controller

Friday, August 5th, 2005 | Cooling, Reviews

With computers continuing to increase in speed the need for greater cooling including fans has increased too.

The upside is that your computer is faster, the downside is that it may have started to sound like you have an airplane rather than a computer, making your computer area sound more like an airport.

One misconception is that these fans are needed all the time, when they are not. Sometimes they do need it, but a lot of the time the computer can do without any fans, especially when it is just idiling, like say when you are just typing articles in a word processor. At times like these, all those extra fans are not needed.

The ULTRA fan controller helps to keep those noises down. The fan controller allows the fans to turn off or down according to how much heat their is in your computer. When the heat is down, the fans can turn off, but when things start getting hot, they can turn on and protect your equipment.

Apart from just keeping the noise from fans down, it can monitor the temperature for you, so it does all of this automatically.

It also

• let’s you select which fans to use
• how fast you want them to go
• warns you if the temperature gets too high
• tells you how fast each fan is going
• warns you if a fan stops working
• tells you CPU temperature
• tells you the system temperature
• even tells you hard drive temperature

The fan controller fits in a CD-ROM slot at the front of the computer and gives it a cool look with it’s blue LED display.

The perfect buy for those who want to overclock and keep the computer cool, as well as those who just want a little peace and quiet.