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Vantec Nexus NXP201 Question

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mickey987

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Well, I've built my computer for some time now and I'm just tired of listening to all my case fans go off. I'm pretty sure that the 4 led fans I have is what's making up at least 75% of the noise. I'm also pretty sure the noise is coming from moving air, rather than the fan themselves. I've considered cutting holes to let air flow through my case a lot easier, but I have a bigger chance screwing it up than suceeding.

Ok, so I've looked around for fan controllers and I've set my sights for the Vantec Nexus NXP201 controller but I have a couple of questions:

1. How does the silver model look, compared to Lian Li (PC 65) alluminum drive covers? Is it a match? Slightly off? Slightly off, but ugly? Not even close?

2. Does anyone's vantec nexus make noises when set to the lowest setting? I read reviews, and they say that this rheobus makes some sort of ..noise when set to lowest setting (which is 7v if I'm not mistaken). The thing is, all those reviews are dated at least one year from now. I'm hoping that Vantec has fixed this problem.

3. Should I just go for a different Rheobus? I was considering the Sunbeam rheobus but not a lot of stores carry them and I just don't like that baby blue etching. I don't want to spend too much money, I'm going to get either a Zalman heatsink or an xp90 with my purchase.

I might overclock but not for a while though, maybe when winter comes back.
 
For question number 2, I've heard of that problem as well, but when my Nexus is turned all the way down, on any number of combinations of the four channels, I get no noise.
 
So, between the Vantec Nexus and the Sunbeam, which should one choose and why?

Thanks.
 
The reason I'm interested in the Vantec, rather than the Sunbeam is because of a couple of reasons. The main reason I dislike the Sunbeam would be the Baby Blue etching on the bay cover. It looks too tacky for my tastes. The second reason, which would probably be more important, ( I got this info off of a review) is that the dial only has about 45* of "usefull" spin, from 12v to 7v. The rest of the spins goes way below that, any by that point, the fan would most likely stop spinning. So in other words, half of the dail is wasted because it doesn't give the fan enough power to spin.

So does anyone know else have any more comments based on my origanal post?
 
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