Aerocool F6XT Fan Controller Review

Installation

Installing the F6XT is a breeze. All you have to do is place it in a 5.25″ bay, attach the four screws that come with the controller, and connect the cables.

Figure 6 presents the product cables. The power cable, shown at the right side, must be connected to the power supply. The other six cables are the fan outputs, each one with a standard peripheral power connector.

Those connectors are, in our opinion, the great problem with the F6XT. Most fans available on the retail market (mainly the high-end ones) use three-pin power connectors. So, if you have some of those three-pin fans, you will have to buy either a power adapter or new fans.

It wouldn’t be a problem if Aerocool had included some power adapters with the fan controller. It would be a much more logical choice to manufacture this fan controller with three-pin connectors and include six power adapters to allow the user to use both type of fans.

Figure 6: Cables