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original grid from ncxt alleviated cable management and fan power headaches by

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allowing users to plug all of their fans into a single Molex connector the issue

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with it is that it only splits 12v power

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rather than allowing the fans to be controlled so the only way to run it

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anything other than full speed is to figure out a highquality inline fan

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controller solution or rewire the connector to 7 volts or 5 volts so

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that's where the grid plus comes in it costs double or triple depending on the

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retailer you shop at for the same 30 wat power limit but it adds DC fan control

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to the capability of the original grid through nxt's cam software which is

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available for your PC or smartphone although why you'd ever need to control

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your fan speed from an iPhone is far beyond the capabilities of my very

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obviously too small brain to comprehend anyway physically it's a fan controller

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so there's not a lot to say it's got a white top power LED six side mounted

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three pin fan headers and a slight plastic overhang so you don't have to

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stare at the wires even though the included ones are thankfully all black

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it's got a USB input and a power jack and included in the box you'll get a

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micro USB to internal header as well as

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a MOX 2 power cable for for the ports that I just mentioned you'll also get

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five zip ties a 3M dual lock Square for

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stealthy mounting and two fan extension SL y cables that allow a four pin and a

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three- pin fan to be connected to a single power port at the same time which

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demonstrates NZXT is aware that some folks plug four pin pwm fans into three

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pin sources and use DC control on them which raises the question NZXT why

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didn't you address my original complaint about the grid and make them all four

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pin this this time anyway and off stalling for time here let's cut to Luke

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to tell you guys exactly how it works so setting up the unit is fairly simple you

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plug in the USB cable you plug in the Molex power you plug in all your fans

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but then you need the software so I went to NZ xt's website and clicked on the

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downloads button under the grid Plus's product page and it brought me to a

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download section of wallpapers not cam software what anyways

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you can go to the cam section of their page and download it there because it

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works for all of your devices I guess they didn't decide to have it under the

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download section of individual devices but I would like to maybe see that in

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the future next up is fan curves they have a few default ones like performance

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or silent and they also have manual where you can kind of just set

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everything to a very specific speed that it will always run at or like I expect

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most of you to use they have a custom curve and setting up the custom curve is

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actually pretty nice whenever you plot a point along the graph and you try to

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move it it's very clear as as to what you're moving it to you know exactly

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what percentages you're running at and that's nice because I've seen with fan

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software in the past you're kind of guessing like uh I think that lines up

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with whatever percentage that might be and you're not really sure so it's actually kind of nice how clear it is

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that being said it goes in increments of 5% so if you're trying to be extremely

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specific about something the smallest number you can get down to is an

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increment of five another thing to note about the fan curves is that the ramping

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is not smooth so it will jump from point to point so if you're setting up a

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custom curve and you want your fans to slowly increase in speed you're going to

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want to set a lot of points along the graph so it has a lot of bumps like a

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lot of different increments that it's going to go up as it speeds up instead

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of having one point and then another point which is much higher because it

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won't change until the temperature hits to that much higher point and then it will change the entire way up it will

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not smoothly change to that speed just something to note if you're setting it

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up on your own another thing that caught my eye was a switch where you can change

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whether or not you're monitoring your CPU temperature or your GPU temperature

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temper I thought when I first saw this due to it being a fan controller that

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the custom graph or whatever speed ramping graph you have for your fans

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would reflect the temperature that you're currently monitoring so CPU or

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GPU so you can position your fans differently around the case that is not

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the case at which point I don't really understand why it's a switch and why

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they didn't just have both of them being monitored at all points in time the fan

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info on the right side of the software is very clean and very easy to read I

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liked that a lot you can see all of your fans at all points in time you can see

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what voltage they're running at what speed they're running at it's it's nice

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I would actually really like to have this on my um radiator testing station

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so that I can make sure all my fans are running properly all the time I do that

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anyways but it's just slightly more of a laborous process I personally am waiting

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to see something as featur rich as a tea balancer but then as aesthetically

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awesome as the cam software that's running on these because T balancer

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software is not awesome at all speaking

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of whatever it is Luke was just talking about I have no idea I scripted this

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