If you’ve been around custom PC building long enough you’ve probably heard of Lamptron. They have been making fan controllers for cases for a very long time and were very popular with controllers that you would mount in an open 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch external bay. Since most cases do not even offer those bays Lamptron has come up with a great product which gives you that cool factor of having a display showing off fans speeds, temperatures, etc and offers a full fan and RGB hub. It is their new SM436 Sync Edition, which has a digital display that you mount to your PCI slots and shows out through your tempered glass panel and a full controller with four PWM fan channels, four 4-pin standard RGB headers and four 3-pin addressable RGB headers. Is this the ultimate controller for fans and RGB? Read on as we take a look!
Special thanks to Lamptron for providing us with the SM436 Sync Edition Fan & RGB Controller to review.
Specifications
Dimensions (boards): 121,5 x 21 x 72,5 mm (B x H x T)
Dimensions (display): 140 x 12,5 x 60 mm (B x H x T)
Screen: 95 mm x 45 mm
Compatibility: 3x PCI slots (display)
Material: aluminium
Color: Black
Fan channels: 4 (max. 36 W per channel)
Voltage: Stainless 0 -12 V
Connections:
1x 4 -Pol Molex
1x SATA
4x 2 -pin temperature sensor
1x PC -RGB In
1x PC -ADD In
RGB -LED -connectors:
4x 3 -Pin -RGB (5VDG, up to 60 LEDs per channel)
4x 4 -pin RGB (12VGRB, up to 60 LEDs per channel)
Delivery:
1x Controller board with acrylic glass cover
1x LC display
2x Connection cable Controller /Display
4x Temperature sensors
1x Infrared remote control
Mounting material for display
Packaging
The SM436 comes in a standard retail box. On the front there is a picture of the display, controller, and remote. Opening the box and getting everything out we have the display, controller, remote, RGB extension cables, temperature probes, mounting hardware, and a user’s guide.
