Usage
When you power your PC on you’ll notice the display of the SM436 light up. On the left side there is a circle that will show you what mode you are in, the percentage / voltage your fans are running at, temperature of the four connected thermal probes, and the speeds that your fans are running.
The display is quite easy to read and is definitely nice to have something covering up the empty space under our graphics card.
You can use the included remote to control your fans. The middle button on the remote allows you to cycle through modes:
– F means select fan work mode between 1,2,3,4
– P means full power mode (on all fans)
– 9 means quiet mode or fans at 40%
– 1,2,3,4 allows you to select the speed of the corresponding fan.
Now I did notice a few weird things when using the remote. When pressing the “RPM” button to switch between manual and auto mode the fans seems to slowly turn off and the display actually turns off as well. Not sure why switching to auto would make it do that.
While the instructions say there are three different brightness levels for the display (off, 50%, and 100%) when you press the brightness button on the remote it just turns the display on and off.
Since this is the SYNC version of the SM436 there is no RGB control, rather you connect the controller to either a 4-pin RGB or 3-pin ARGB header on your motherboard. According to Lamptron’s website the SM436 works with ASUS Aura Sync, MSI Mystic Light, and Gigabyte’s RGB Fusion. We tested it on an ASUS motherboard and it worked no problem.
