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original grid from ncxt alleviated cable management and fan power headaches by
allowing users to plug all of their fans into a single Molex connector the issue
with it is that it only splits 12v power
rather than allowing the fans to be controlled so the only way to run it
anything other than full speed is to figure out a highquality inline fan
controller solution or rewire the connector to 7 volts or 5 volts so
that's where the grid plus comes in it costs double or triple depending on the
retailer you shop at for the same 30 wat power limit but it adds DC fan control
to the capability of the original grid through nxt's cam software which is
available for your PC or smartphone although why you'd ever need to control
your fan speed from an iPhone is far beyond the capabilities of my very
obviously too small brain to comprehend anyway physically it's a fan controller
so there's not a lot to say it's got a white top power LED six side mounted
three pin fan headers and a slight plastic overhang so you don't have to
stare at the wires even though the included ones are thankfully all black
it's got a USB input and a power jack and included in the box you'll get a
micro USB to internal header as well as
a MOX 2 power cable for for the ports that I just mentioned you'll also get
five zip ties a 3M dual lock Square for
stealthy mounting and two fan extension SL y cables that allow a four pin and a
three- pin fan to be connected to a single power port at the same time which
demonstrates NZXT is aware that some folks plug four pin pwm fans into three
pin sources and use DC control on them which raises the question NZXT why
didn't you address my original complaint about the grid and make them all four
pin this this time anyway and off stalling for time here let's cut to Luke
to tell you guys exactly how it works so setting up the unit is fairly simple you
plug in the USB cable you plug in the Molex power you plug in all your fans
but then you need the software so I went to NZ xt's website and clicked on the
downloads button under the grid Plus's product page and it brought me to a
download section of wallpapers not cam software what anyways
you can go to the cam section of their page and download it there because it
works for all of your devices I guess they didn't decide to have it under the
download section of individual devices but I would like to maybe see that in
the future next up is fan curves they have a few default ones like performance
or silent and they also have manual where you can kind of just set
everything to a very specific speed that it will always run at or like I expect
most of you to use they have a custom curve and setting up the custom curve is
actually pretty nice whenever you plot a point along the graph and you try to
move it it's very clear as as to what you're moving it to you know exactly
what percentages you're running at and that's nice because I've seen with fan
software in the past you're kind of guessing like uh I think that lines up
with whatever percentage that might be and you're not really sure so it's actually kind of nice how clear it is
that being said it goes in increments of 5% so if you're trying to be extremely
specific about something the smallest number you can get down to is an
increment of five another thing to note about the fan curves is that the ramping
is not smooth so it will jump from point to point so if you're setting up a
custom curve and you want your fans to slowly increase in speed you're going to
want to set a lot of points along the graph so it has a lot of bumps like a
lot of different increments that it's going to go up as it speeds up instead
of having one point and then another point which is much higher because it
won't change until the temperature hits to that much higher point and then it will change the entire way up it will
not smoothly change to that speed just something to note if you're setting it
up on your own another thing that caught my eye was a switch where you can change
whether or not you're monitoring your CPU temperature or your GPU temperature
temper I thought when I first saw this due to it being a fan controller that
the custom graph or whatever speed ramping graph you have for your fans
would reflect the temperature that you're currently monitoring so CPU or
GPU so you can position your fans differently around the case that is not
the case at which point I don't really understand why it's a switch and why
they didn't just have both of them being monitored at all points in time the fan
info on the right side of the software is very clean and very easy to read I
liked that a lot you can see all of your fans at all points in time you can see
what voltage they're running at what speed they're running at it's it's nice
I would actually really like to have this on my um radiator testing station
so that I can make sure all my fans are running properly all the time I do that
anyways but it's just slightly more of a laborous process I personally am waiting
to see something as featur rich as a tea balancer but then as aesthetically
awesome as the cam software that's running on these because T balancer
software is not awesome at all speaking
of whatever it is Luke was just talking about I have no idea I scripted this
before he did his thing so uh Intel is going to be at nerdhq which is starting
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