Silverstone Commander ESA Edition

Darksaber · 07-30-2008, 03:35 PM

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lowfat · 08-01-2008, 07:53 PM

I am not impressed. Even on Silverstone product page, the make it sound like it can control 3 lamps. Not just power them, which IMO is useless. So I bought a product thinking it does somthing when in fact it doesn't. Not impressed at all.

EnglishLion · 08-12-2008, 09:42 PM

Seems fairly pointless to me. Little gain for the outlay.

sneekypeet · 08-12-2008, 09:48 PM

Seems like an OK product, the fact that it limits itself to Nvidia chipsets my be a huge downfall tho!

MKmods · 08-12-2008, 09:51 PM

The idea is to be able to control the fans lights and temps through Nvidias ESA program..

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_esa.html

There isant a lot of ESA hardware yet but if more shows up it would be really cool to have the cooling automatically adjust.

(the 1 thing I dont care for is the .5A per fan spec, wont allow high speed fans)

lowfat · 08-12-2008, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MKmods

The idea is to be able to control the fans lights and temps through Nvidias ESA program..

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_esa.html

There isant a lot of ESA hardware yet but if more shows up it would be really cool to have the cooling automatically adjust.

(the 1 thing I dont care for is the .5A per fan spec, wont allow high speed fans)

It doesn't allow control of the lights though.

07-30-2008, 03:35 PM	#1
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08-01-2008, 07:53 PM	#2
lowfat Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2 (0.00/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I am not impressed. Even on Silverstone product page, the make it sound like it can control 3 lamps. Not just power them, which IMO is useless. So I bought a product thinking it does somthing when in fact it doesn't. Not impressed at all.

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