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Installing the Sentry Mix involves selecting an available 5.25″ drive bay, sliding the unit into place and securing the Mix with the screws supplied by NZXT.
Here are two images with the NZXT Mix fan controller installed in our Phantom chassis. We must say it looks good and right at home.
The LCD's can be one of 5 colors; we can select between Red, Green, Blue, Orange or White. The full sized version of the lefthand image above is an animated .gif that will give us an idea what some of the colors look like. We found the numbered LCD's are a touch on the bright side and unfortunately they can't be dimmed.
I gotta say, I never understood the need for these. Just never got the whole ‘fan controller thing. I do agree with reviewers comments on fan speed. who needs a readout for that? its surely all based on noise
Looks ok, not something I would be rushing out to buy either.
Not really my cup of tea looks wise. Generally, if I want a fan controller, I put inside my case or I just get a case for the build that has a built in fan controller. Both my Antec DF and NZXT Phantom have built in fan controllers. Perhaps some people like these. I had a NZXT Sentry LX that I used for a bit but that was mostly for the temperature readouts. I didn’t use it for very long before I sold it for some seperately controlled fans.
I almost feel like, most of the time, you set all the fans to the speed where you balance cooling and noise and then never touch it again.