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hey Ron I'm Steve from gamers access net and today we're talking about NZXT su+ RGB LED controller and this is for cases so this is a brand new product we're reviewing it here today and what you get with the $60 that it costs is the RGB LED controller itself which is a small box about the size of a 2.5 inch SSD although a little taller but it will mount in 2.5 inch SSD slots so that's cool that's good future site on NZXT part it also comes with four LED strips with 10 LEDs each so you can get 40 LEDs with the stock set up and that is expandable to a total of 8 strips so you can buy an additional 4 for $20 more and the other inclusion here is a couple of extension cables so with the stock kit alongside the controller and the four LED strips you also get four extension cables two of which are about 6 inches in length and two of which are about 18 inches in length running nearly the full length of this h4 48 hour next meets a mid tower setup looking at the RGB LED controller the ports on the back are pretty simple it's 4 ports there's power there's a microUSB to USB 2.0 FP or front panel header and then 2 channels for the LEDs with the 2 channels and the stock setup of 4 strips you could run either 2 channels with 2 strips each for some additional customization using the cam software and that is how the LEDs are controlled or you can set up a single channel with 4 strips for Less customization but give yourself the room for another 4 strips in the future the hue plus is capable of sixteen point eight million color output with four lighting modes two of which are smart and audio with audio being responsive to decibel levels of your speaker output and it's got eight display modes fixed color so a single color breathing pulse scrolling marquee covering marquee which is basically a chase light where one color chases the other color around the case spectrum rainbow and then alternating patterns and you can do all these forward or backward in the case if you have a preference to which way it's going an additional LED is press on the 2.5 inch enclosure but that is only white so there's no RGB control there and that controller we've been able to mount pretty successfully on the top of the PSU shroud in this h 440 v 2 it'll be the same h4 40mm s 340 as well and other cases that might have SSDs in that spot on top of the PSU now the one limiter here to keep in mind is even though it is a 2.5 inch form factor you won't be able to fit the controller on the rear side of the motherboard in a lot of cases or even on the top of the PSU shroud which we've done here because it is a little bit taller so the limiter with the PSU shroud setup is if we installed a PCIe SSD with a heatsink that like the Intel 750 then you have collision issues on the lower slots we're using a predator HyperX SSD here with a PCIe adapter card and we're able to get them to work together with the PCIe SSD in the lowest slot but it's so close that it's actually a thermal concern so I would not run it this way permanently for my own setup for example I'd probably move the controller to the hard drive and SSD cage is in the more traditional vertical mounting over here away from the SSD lower PCIe slots which I normally use for something like a predator or Intel 750 SSD the color output on the hue plus is pretty impressive I'm definitely happy with the vibrance and brightness of the leds there's not too much bleed in the side-to-side directions it's all very directed which is good for lighting components if you want to do some kind of spotlighting with the strip in the top center and light downward towards the CPU cooler or the RAM or something like that then the way the LEDs are set up the way their lenses are focused is conducive to that type of endeavor a few of the wishes I have for the hue plus would include an elbow connector similar to the SATA 90 degree headers and that would be so that you can put it in the corner of the case and get a wall-to-wall flush very clean LED strip setup right now we're kind of talking cabling away and tying it all down with zip ties which to NZXT ease credit they do include I'd also like to see some additional customization through these software and luckily for NZXT they keep this all in-house they have the firmware in-house they have cams software in-house and that means that going forward if NZXT is active in furthering development of the hue plus controller they could enable things like game integration which is something that Logitech does very intelligently with game developers so Logitech in that example they have the g9 10 keyboard which is an RGB LED keyboard and working with the GTA 5 devs rockstar games logitech was able to set up so that the F keys will actually flash the red and blues when cops chase you in GTA 5 that's kind of gimmicky but it's a really cool idea and expanding that idea companies like Corsair and Logitech actually have both talked to us about setting up their headsets with the LED ear cups so that spectators and eSport arenas can more readily tell which csgo Cod or halo player is currently dead or dying by using red LEDs or LED changes to warmer colors and things like that and that's something that could also be integrated with the hue plus set up in cases if you had a case on display and you wanted to integrate with a game to show how is a player performing or how our thermals performing if you tie into a hardware monitor fan RPMs there's a lot of room for upgrades here to the Q Plus through cam and the firmware which is something that NZXT has told us they're working on but it's not all currently out there just yet so for current launch everything you've seen in the video is what the hue plus is capable of it's currently selling at sixty dollars with twenty dollars of add-ons through for additional LED strips and the price seems fair but we'd really like to see it closer to fifty dollars because ultimately you're just paying for flashy LEDs for your case so 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