So we recently threw together a little rig of our own, and though we made sure to toss in at least four fans for keeping everything nice and cool, we has no idea that for a lot more money we could get ones that pull double duty as obnoxious billboards for flashing the internal temperature. So would we have done things differently had we known about ThermalTake's iFlash+ 120mm model with built-in POV (persistence of vision) display? Of course not, don't be silly. But for those of you who take pride in shlocking up your case mods as much as possible, Dark Vision Hardware reports that the iFlash+ does indeed live up to the hype, basically giving you the performance of ThermalTake's TT-1225A coupled with a bright, readable, and mostly pointless bit of ambient information. Reviewer Thomas gives the lively air mover a nine out of ten rating, harshing on it only for its curious but rather minor omission of a Fahrenheit mode (i.e. all temps are shown in Celsius). Still, you're not spending triple the price of a regular fan because of your need for real-time, completely accurate data anyway, so it's probably best to say that this product will be most pleasing to anyone who would actually consider buying it. If that's you, make sure to check out the vid after the break...
posted Mar 12th 2007 4:10PM
pah, so ugly. i like my fans to be silent, well hidden and non lighted.
This would be pretty cool if you could program it to display whatever you want.
Like bling bling.....bling bling.....bling bling......bling bling.....
I like my fans like I like my women: quiet, good blowing, and not that bright...
:D
one question: WHY?
These reminds me of those wheels that you can put personalized messages on. Soon, we'll have spinners on computer fans
A friend of mine has one of these. He also has no taste what so ever and is going to a 12 step program for LEDs in his system. The damn thing could attract landing aircraft.
Its "gaudy".
Haha I was wondering when these would hit the PC market, theyve had these for car rims for awhile now and I always thought theyd fit in perfect with the crazy case mod scene. I'll never understand the whole "bigger LED = better mentality," I cut all the LED wires in my fans since they made the case look worse than it already did. All the best stuff has LED's it seems, its hard to make a PC look classy these days, theres very few "clean" looking cases and parts.
How can people sleep in the same room as one of these?
**when you hack it, they will buy**
These have been out for a long time... and there are aluminum fans out there somewhere. can't remember which brand though.