WEBVTT 00:00:01.319 --> 00:00:09.040 okay so today I'll be unboxing the aerocool V12 XT this is a touch LCD fan 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:14.200 controller so you can see right off the bat it is a dual Bay controller and it 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:16.520 sits in two 5 and 1/4 in Bays they have 00:00:14.200 --> 00:00:20.720 a finger here so and it's called a touch LCD fan controller so this is a 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:24.800 touchscreen LCD display that you see on the front and uh you know what why don't 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:28.519 we just go ahead and work our way around the box and see if we can find out some 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:31.920 more information so other languages are on the sides but English being 00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:36.000 apparently the most important to Arrow cool oh and look they've even started 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:39.320 the package open for me so I can just uh rip off the plastic very easily without 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:45.760 a knife okay almost I you know I was doing 00:00:42.680 --> 00:00:48.960 really well there ah there we go yes no 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:50.480 knife success okay so let's have a look 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:55.079 at the features on the back so you got a large LCD screen 2x 5 and 1/4 inch Bay 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:59.160 which I already covered Innovative touch LCD 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:02.920 technology racer style fan controller design so they've designed it to look 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:07.119 kind of like a speedometer and then a tachometer which is kind of cool if 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:12.360 you're into that monitors and control four sets of temperature and fan speeds 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:16.000 individually the LCD backlight can be either on or off you can switch between 00:01:14.119 --> 00:01:20.280 Celsius and Fahrenheit I've actually seen this feature missing on fan 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:24.400 controllers before and it drives me crazy because everyone sets it to 00:01:22.479 --> 00:01:29.040 Fahrenheit by default and in Canada we use celsius overheating alarm 00:01:26.520 --> 00:01:33.439 temperature warning hard drive working display okay so you can plug this into 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:37.520 your hard drive LED uh header on your motherboard lock function provided to 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:42.040 prevent careless mouch that's kind of neat okay so why don't we get this 00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:45.240 opened up and have a look inside the 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:46.520 first thing we will find is the unit oh 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:50.200 and then okay good there is some documentation I thought there was Zero 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:53.719 documentation inside and I was going to freak out because uh then I would have 00:01:52.399 --> 00:01:57.240 nothing to talk about except what I already just talked about so why don't 00:01:55.520 --> 00:02:03.880 we have a look at the documentation first number one is a user manual so 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:08.599 this unfolds pretty good here I did it again okay so here English 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:12.879 the fen controller is operated by a touch LCD screen okay we got that much 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:16.319 okay you can browse fan speed select a fan of your choice from fan one to Fan 4 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:20.599 to view the fan speed so you just touch it on the fan speed and then browsing 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:24.239 temperatures you can select a Channel of your choice to view the temperature and 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:28.519 the thermometer display so you can choose either CPU VGA hard drive or 00:02:26.760 --> 00:02:33.599 system and then you'll get a temperature reading right here uh key lock and 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:38.120 unlock so you can unlock or lock it setting fan speed okay so you touch to 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:42.000 unlock the LCD touch fan one to see the RPM display and then you touch the 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:47.879 digits inside the pink Square I don't see a pink Square huh 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.920 okay well you touch the digits inside the pink Square the digits begin to 00:02:49.519 --> 00:02:55.599 Blink and then you touch plus or minus to adjust the fan speed at 100 RPM 00:02:52.879 --> 00:03:00.519 intervals very cool okay around the other side and this is you okay so it 00:02:58.760 --> 00:03:07.319 shows you basically how to change change every aspect of this displays and touch 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:10.959 screen and fan controllers settings okay 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:13.040 so here is how to replace heat 00:03:10.959 --> 00:03:16.959 sensors or how to install the heat sensors I guess so you split the cables 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:23.239 and then run them to wherever you want them to go so you can see they've got the little temperature sensors here and 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:27.120 then you unplug the failed fan C oh replacing a fan cable they're showing 00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:30.760 you how to replace failed cables that can't happen that often okay so why 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:36.400 don't we have a look at the accessories that are included right off the bat here 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:38.319 and uh okay everything seems to be 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:42.599 mostly pre-attached to the unit but why don't we have a look at what's in this 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:49.040 bagy first so the first thing we have are little adhesive strips okay the next 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:54.319 thing we have are what appear to be some extension cables so we have two fan 00:03:51.519 --> 00:04:00.079 extension cables here okay and then we have two temperature sensors so these 00:03:57.239 --> 00:04:04.640 seem to be Replacements yeah so they've included instructions and Replacements 00:04:02.799 --> 00:04:08.760 just in case the fan cables or temperature sensors here fail well 00:04:06.959 --> 00:04:13.519 that's very helpful of them at any rate they're covering all of their bases here 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:19.000 then we have eight installation screws that we can use to install this into two 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:23.000 5 and a/4 in bays and then why don't we 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:25.040 have a look at this guy here so it uses 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.479 steel construction on the side so you I've seen too many that use like an 00:04:26.520 --> 00:04:32.120 aluminum sheet here that's not thick enough but you can see this is not going 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:34.840 to flex and bend because what can happen is while you're installing it you might 00:04:33.400 --> 00:04:38.280 need to pinch them a little bit tight to get it into the front of the case and 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:43.440 then they don't go they don't go back into place and it's hard to screw them in from the side so they've thought of 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:47.320 that which is very helpful and why don't we just uncoil all the cables that are 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:51.120 plugged into the back of this guy and then we you can have a look at how long 00:04:48.880 --> 00:04:54.560 the cables are for one thing because that's another big complaint that I've 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:59.080 had about fan controllers in the past is if the cables aren't long enough to 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:04.520 reach something then it's not very helpful at all is it okay so oh this is 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:09.800 kind of neat okay so while this fan controller doesn't use pwm technology it 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:14.800 just uses straight DC to control the fans what they've done is they've made 00:05:11.919 --> 00:05:19.800 it so that the three Pin cable goes out to a 4pin compatible cable so you can 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:24.759 either plug a three pin fan or a four pin fan into this in order to get the 00:05:22.479 --> 00:05:29.120 most out of your compatibility for different fans and I don't know what 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:35.560 this does this is interesting so this is an RP p m sensor that also includes 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:39.000 another ground so you could potentially 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:42.639 plug a fan into here and then you could 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:44.840 take this out and plug it into an RPM 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:50.199 sensor on your motherboard but you've already got an RPM sensor on the fan 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:54.240 controller so it seems to be all about redundancy with this thing it's got 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:57.680 alarms for if your fans fail you can plug it into your motherboard so your 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:04.400 motherboard can set off an alarm if your fan fails this is all about system 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:05.520 safety and temp sensors so these are oh 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:09.599 you know what I never showed you how long these cables were did I okay so the 00:06:07.599 --> 00:06:14.840 cables are about this long that is all okay and then for the 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:19.919 temp sensors these are actually hot glued in okay but they should come off 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:24.319 fairly easily if you really wanted to do that so you've got the four temp sensors 00:06:22.280 --> 00:06:30.000 and then you've got see this red stripe down at the other end that is the hard 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:32.520 drive LED so not only can you plug this 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:37.880 into the hard drive LED header on the motherboard then you can take your case 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:39.960 hard drive LED and plug it into this one 00:06:37.880 --> 00:06:45.199 so they'll both go off whenever you access your hard drive redundancy there 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:49.080 you go so this thing is taking functions that you could have already done and 00:06:46.919 --> 00:06:53.560 doing them better but then you also still have the old functionality that's 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:58.360 awesome because I hate it when you plug in like a front panel uh like a new 00:06:55.919 --> 00:07:02.599 front panel thing and then what it does is it just makes the stuff that came 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:07.120 with your case dead like if you plug in like a like a 5 and a/4 in so the full 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:11.400 SD card cut me off in the middle of my rant about how um duplicated 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:14.919 functionality on a front panel thing that you add to your system might render 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:18.720 something else useless like if you buy something that has an ESAT port on the 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:22.240 front and then you have to unplug the es SATA port on your case in order to make 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:25.080 that one work is like pretty stupid but this one makees sure that you don't run 00:07:23.400 --> 00:07:29.680 into that problem so I've actually in the time I've been off camera plugged in 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:33.039 a couple of fans okay into the back back of the unit so I plugged one in using 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:36.759 their extension cable and I plugged one in directly so you can see the back 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:41.520 light from around the side of the PCB and you can actually see the front 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:45.159 display so um yeah we're monitoring the 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:48.879 RPM of fan number one right now it's at 00:07:45.159 --> 00:07:52.360 uh 1700 and then 2600 RPM and then 1200 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:54.039 RPM I'm not sure how completely accurate 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:57.280 that is but honestly I don't think it really matters okay I think it's 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:01.080 unlocked right now and I think I can adjust it I don't know I didn't the 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:07.159 instructions very carefully on how to adjust the fan speed but one thing I did notice is that if you unplug it oh 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:16.199 there's an alarm there you go there's your alarm anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing today of the V12 XT Fen 00:08:12.199 --> 00:08:16.199 controller from a aerocool