NZXT Announces The Sentry 3 Touchscreen Fan Controller

[HardOCP News]

Take your build to new heights with the Sentry 3’s perfect blend of precision and power. The Sentry 3 combines five powerful fan channels with an extraordinarily intuitive UI, giving you complete control over your entire rig’s cooling with the swipe of a finger. The Sentry 3’s huge 5.4 inch color touchscreen is 33% larger than any other single bay fan controller screen on the market. The newly introduced PowerSlide Bar gives you ultimate control over your fan channels, letting you adjust speed on the fly. Channel linking allows you to join any of the five fan channels together and control the link group simultaneously.

The Sentry 3’s 15 watts of power per channel is enough to push even the most demanding fans available for builders. To keep this power in check, we’ve included integrated short protection, making the Sentry 3 and Sentry Mix 2 the only fan controllers to integrate short circuit, undervoltage, and overvoltage protection to keep both you and your computer safer. The reimagined UI and high quality construction means you’ll never have to choose style over performance with the sleek, empowering Sentry 3. The Sentry 3 is available for preorder directly through our store, the NZXT Armory, for $34.99.

 

[Ashbringer]

Was going to make a joke about how expensive it's going to be but $35 ain't bad.

 

[cortexodus]

even the most demanding fans available

Something tells me it wouldn't handle a quintet of Deltas

 

[jamsomito]

The white PCB is interesting. Don't those cost more to produce? For something that will never be seen once it's installed?

 

[EdKiefer]

I see a lot of these bay fan controllers but do any of them do fan profiles vs temp either through external sensors or reading off MB sensors (via USB) ?

I always end up using MB bios fan profiles for most all except maybe intake case fans .

 

[ShadowVlican]

people still use these? i remember back in the day when i wanted to manually control my fan speeds when i'm gaming... i had those vantec fan controllers (their pots were smoother than zalman's offerings, remember those?)

but nowadays, the motherboard does a great job of automating that

 

[wjogert]

The Sentry 3’s 15 watts of power per channel is enough to push even the most demanding fans available for builders

Something tells me it wouldn't handle a quintet of Deltas

15W @ 12V fans is 1.25A per fan... while I can think of many available fans that would cook that circuit, it is still certainly impressive for a "universal" fan controller.

FWIW, the PWM fan controller I built handles at least 25W per channel as shown, and up to 65W per channel with a small heat sink. (shameless plug lol)

I like their additional micro-controller features, like grouping channels together, turning off the screen, etc.

 

[WaltC]

Was going to make a joke about how expensive it's going to be but $35 ain't bad.

It's certainly priced right--it's not going to be out of reach for anyone.

 

[Burticus]

Snazzy looking, but I agree can do all this from desktop now. But I remember 10 years ago my rig with all the knobs sticking out for fan control...

 

[Methadras]

Looks like LCARS.