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the jazz mini phone and tablet stand from Coolermaster is now available in a variety of cool colors from these great retailers click now to learn more the original grid from NZXT alleviated cable management and fan power headaches by allowing users to plug all of their fans into a single molex connector the issue with it is that it only splits 12-volt power rather than allowing the fans to actually be controlled so the only way to run at anything other than full speed is to figure out a high quality inline fan controller solution or rewire the connector to 7 volts or 5 volts so that's where the grid plus comes in it costs double or triple depending on the retailer you shop at for the same 30 watt power limit but it adds DC fan control to the capability of the original grid through NZXT T's cam software which is available for your PC or smartphone although why you'd ever need to control your fan speed from an iPhone is far beyond the capabilities of my very obviously too small brain to cover in any way physically it's a fan controller so there's not a lot to say it's got a white top power LED 6 side mounted 3 pin fan headers and a slight plastic overhang so you don't have to stare at the wires even though the included ones are thankfully all-black it's got a USB input and a power jack and included in the box you'll get a micro USB to internal header as well as a molex to power cable for the ports that I just mentioned you'll also get five zip ties a 3m dual lock square for stealthy mounting and two fan extension /why cables that allow a four pin and a three pin fan to be connected to a single power port at the same time which demonstrates NZXT is aware that some folks plug four pin PWM fans into three pin sources and use DC control on them which raises the question NZXT why didn't you address my original complaint about the grid and make them all four pin this time anyway and not stalling for time here let's cut to Luke to tell you guys exactly how it works so setting up the unit is fairly simple you plug in the USB cable you plug in the molex power you plug in all your face ends but then you need the software so I went to end EDX tees website and clicked on the Downloads button under the grid plusses product page and it brought me to a download section of wallpapers not cam software what anyways you can go to the cam section of their webpage and download it there because it works for all of your devices I guess they didn't decide to have it under the download section of individual devices but I would like to maybe see that in the future next up is fan curves they have a few default ones like performance or silent and they also have manual where you can kind of just set everything to a very specific speed that it will always run at or like I expect most of you to use they have a custom curve and setting up the custom curve is actually pretty nice whenever you plot a point along the graph and you try to move it it's very clear as to what you're moving it to you know exactly what percentage is you're running at and that's nice because I've seen with fan software in the past you're kind of guessing like I think that lines up with whatever percentage that might be and you're not really sure so it's absolutely nice how clear it is that being said it goes in increments of 5% so if you're trying to be extremely specific about something the smallest number you can get down to is an increment of 5 another thing to note about the fan curves is that the ramping is not smooth so it will jump from point to point so if you're setting up a custom curve and you want your fans to slowly increase in speed you're going to want to set a lot of points along the graph so it has a lot of bumps like a lot of different increments that it's going to go up as it speeds up instead of having one point and another point which is much higher because it won't change until the temperature hits to that much higher point and then it will change the entire way up it will not smoothly change to that speed just something to note if you're setting it up on your own another thing that caught my eye was a switch where you can change whether or not you're monitoring your CPU temperature or your GPU temperature I thought when I first saw this due to it being a fan controller that the custom graph or whatever speed ramping graph you have for your fans would reflect the temperature that you're currently monitoring so CPU or GPU so you can position your fans differently around the case that is not the case at which point I don't really understand why it's a switch and why they didn't just have both of the being monitored at all points in time the fan info on the right side of the software is very clean and very easy to read I liked that a lot you can see all of your fans at all points in time you can see what voltage they're running at what speed they're running at it's it's nice I would actually really like to have this on my radiator testing station so I can make sure all my fans are running properly all the time I do that anyways but it's just slightly more of a laborious process I personally am waiting to see something as feature-rich as a t balancer but then as aesthetically awesome as the cam software that's running on these because T balancers software is not awesome at all speaking of whatever it is Luke was just talking about I have no idea I scripted this before he did his thing so uh Intel is going to be at nerd HQ which is starting today July the 24th they have some awesome promotions going on during the event this year with a couple of their hardware partners and Operation Smile first up at newegg.com from July 24th to 28th you can get 25 bucks off select Acer products will offer code nerd HQ 25 and second up you can say 50 bucks off select Asus products with offer code nerd HQ 50 so head over to the bitly link below to see the list of qualifying products now discounts are great but free is even better 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