No other company is as synonymous with quiet computing as Zalman. And today we are going to look at what is arguably the single most important component in quieting a noisy computer, the fan controller. If someone had invented a piano controller, perhaps Beethoven would not have gone deaf, but that's another article entirely. Beginning with the first inspired fellow who soldered a rheostat into a fans electrical loop, fan controllers have allowed us to have our cake and keep it from overheating too. A fan controller allows us the luxury of using high-performance fans for power hungry tasks such as gaming and allows us to slow down the same air thrashing beasts to reasonable levels while surfing for pr0n, um ...I mean researching garden mulchers and stuff. And more advanced controllers such as the ZM-MFC2 keep track of critical temperatures so we know when to crank up the RPM's.

The Zalman ZM-MFC2 allows us to do all this with style. The Zalman Multi has a two-tone black and silver bezel that should blend well with a wide variety of cases and contrast well with others and the low profile jog wheel should allow clearance for most cases with doors. The black portion is entirely covered with a clear plastic giving it a super deep clear-coat finish look. The LED display is well ordered and pleasantly colored. All the information the panel can display, is displayed. There is no digging through presets trying to find what your looking for. The ZM-MFC2 does three things and does them well, and without mucking up the interface with unneeded functions and garish graphics.



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