"stormrider" <oceanwind42@yahoo.com> wrote:
>http://silentgamingreview.com/components.htm

>This is a listing by component - there are full model names
>etc. No product sheets but you could google it

Turns out that it isn't easy to find information on anything from
Vantec Nexus. Here's the best review that I could find, as far
as giving at least a few specs. But it is still very unclear as
to what it can actually do.

http://silentgamingreview.com/components.htm

>I would do the software, but I could not find anything that can
>turn the fans completely off.

The Crystalfontz CF633 can turn the fans off. It can also
measure their speed while not running at full throttle too,
which is tricky when they are controlled with PWM.

The CF633 is far more versatile, but it is *totally* under
software control. Hence it can either be used with available
software, to whatever degree that happens to fit needs, or
custom software has to be written. I use Linux and custom
software, so I'm not at all sure what the various Windows
software packages will do.

The NXP-301 and NXP-305 are totally manual, which is perfect
non-programmers who shut their computers off when they aren't
sitting at the console. They also include a lot of purely
snazzy stuff for eye appeal (light controllers!).

Hence a CF633 is much more likely to end up in a server or an
engineering model, while the NXP-305 is more appealing for a
"consumer" system.

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