Not wanting to toss the device away, I decided to see if I could reverse engineer their drivers and come up with my own control software. The user reviews at Newegg, Amazon as well as NZXT’s own support website highlight the issues with their provided ‘CAM’ software and it ranges from system stability issues, resource hogging and poor sensor readouts.I wanted a fan speed controller for my PC, not an escort. Cloud PC fan speed management? A ‘companion’ for my PC? Remote fan speed control software via a mobile app? The process is constantly between 1.5%-30% of CPU usage on my OCed i7-2600k and it’s memory usage hovers between 120-200MB’s. The provided NZXT CAM software is an absolute piece of garbage.You can’t turn off the fans completely.Speed adjustments are percentage based (with 5% increments) and are limited to between 40-100% (firmware limit).It can detect the RPM pulse signal from all 6 ports but speed adjustments are applied equally to all ports. It’s a 6 port, single channel controller.However, it wasn’t until I had setup the drivers and software that I realized the controller had a ton of limitations. It arrived yesterday in some standard packaging. LinusTechTips had some pretty decent things to say about the NZXT GRID+ so I decided to drop the 35USD and pick it up from a local reseller. I personally find slot and drive bay based rheobus/digital controllers unappealing as they somewhat alter the outer design of my case. As my current motherboard does not support non-PWM chassis fan speed control via software, I looked for a software based solution that I could stick inside my case to manually control the fan speeds as the Corsair AF120 fans in my rig are noticeably noisy even when my system is idling (probably because my motherboard is driving them at 1100RPM 24/7). I was looking for a digital chassis fan controller for my main rig and stumbled upon the NZXT GRID+ digital fan controller.
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