NZXT Sentry LXE Fan Controller Review
Installation
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The internal unit looks like an expansion card. It is intended to be installed on a slot of the case, but it is not connected to the motherboard. There are 11 cables connected to the board: five temperature sensors, five fan outputs, and one standard peripheral power connector that powers up the peripheral.
Figure 6: Internal unit
Figure 7: External cable
The NZXT Sentry LXE has five temperature sensors, each one coming protected by a plastic tube, that must be removed before installation. Each sensor must be installed on a "hot spot" that you wish to monitor, like the base of the CPU cooler (since attaching the sensor to the CPU directly is virtually impossible), GPU cooler, motherboard chipset heatsink, hard drive, etc. The product comes with double-sided tape for you to stick the sensors to the computer components.
Figure 8: Temperature sensors
In Figure 9, you can see the fan connectors. Each output supports up to eight watts. All connectors are three-pin ones, and they aren’t compatible with four-pin PWM fans.
Figure 9: Fan outputs