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To get things started we have included this diagram to show exactly how things connect to the PCI controller card.
This should help to simplify things prior to starting our installation.
Installing it is as simple as screwing the card in place, hooking your fans of choice to the Grey and White cables, making sure the 2 8 pin power connections are tightly in place and then powering up the system.
We should make note of the fact that the PCI card does not secure as well as we would like. We ended up using a thumbscrew to secure our sample, so make sure that you pay special attention to this when putting the controller card in your system. To complete the install it may take 5-10 minutes at the most depending how fussy you are about cable management.
These pictures show the inside of the system with the temperature diodes placed in various locations to provided additional monitoring of our internal components.
The 8 pin power cable connected to the rear of the external touch screen display. The opposite end of the cable then plugs directly into the controller card at the rear of our PC.
The Sentry LXE powered on and fully operational. On the right hand side of the display window are the RPM readings from each of our 5 fans. We can let the LXE operate in either auto or manual mode. When in auto mode the Sentry LXE automatically adjusts our fan speed based on a pre defined temperature scale.
To get more control over the fans, the settings can be moved to manual. To adjust the speed of a particular fan just tap twice on the number on the left side of the display. The number will flash and then using the + and – signs in the lower left corner of the display we can either increase or decrease the RPM setting that corresponds to the fan we selected.
The Sentry LXE also allows alarms to be set via temperatures. To set our alarms we tap once on 1-5 on the display and then using the + and – signs we set the maximum temperature for each of the 5 thermal diodes. Once configured an audible alarm will sound if any temperature surpasses our predetermined setting. There is also a built in clock and calendar which is also configured in the same manner of tapping the associated place of the display.
Cool little tool, are these sold outside the US?
Good device, looks great too which helps. Might look into picking up one later this month.
Looks well on a desk, my friend has one similar, not by NZXT. I think this one looks better so ill be sure to show him it later.
Looks good, dont personallly see a need for it however.
Good looking product, but I have never really understand the need for a fan controller. if you get good fans they should be pretty quiet anyway, no need for a windstorm 🙂
I’m thinking about one, as it will solve one of my problems. With external module I can put another RAID backplane inside and stick LXE on the desk with a bit of tape. It is a win – win solution just need to wire cables differently.