I have been searching for a really small fan controller with some cool graphics (eye candy) for a while. The problem is that I have a very small area to place it in, and most of them have large pcb's with knobs or buttons on them. Then I found this one sweeeet! Well pretty sweet, the clock is kind of small (I have one anyway) and the date is yyyy/mm/dd (also on my clock) , that's weird. But it has a cool spinning fan on the display, three selectable fan's cpu, hd and system, each one has its own temperature probe. It also has a temperature alarm that you can set. It has a hd status display (same function as led on the front of a pc), Oddly enough it even has an alarm clock, and a few other functions.
So if you have wanted to add something like this to your car, but didn't think that you had enough room, maybe this one will work for you. I have measured it, for those interested.
SilverStone Eudemon SST-FP52-S right out of the box.
Disassembled:
I put the quarter in there for comparison. The knobs were hot glued on so I used a lighter to remove them. The knobs are a aluminum shell with a plastic insert, so they were slightly damaged but they could be hot glued back on. You will either have to remove the knobs or cut the bracket to get them out. The buttons are on a separate pcb, I like that, it will be so easy to put the buttons anywhere I want. The backup battery (3 volts I think) is also on its on pcb (easy relocation).
Now for the sweet part, the speed of the fan graphic changes with the actual fan speed and of course you can control the fan speed. It has a pretty big temperature display that can be changed to Fahrenheit or Celsius. I didn't have everything connected when I took this photo, that's why there's no power or hd status.
Ok, here are the dimensions as promised.
I have other projects to finish so I put it back together. It's going to be a while before I can get around to installing this, but I look forward to having the CPU temperature at a glance.
I hope this is helpful to someone.
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