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Touch-2100 is a manually operated fan controller that easily controls and monitors five temperatures and fan speeds at a glance.You can freely increase or decrease fan speed of a particular fan according to the temperature the heat sensors of the corresponding channel detects.

An alarm temperature can be set to a particular channel in order to carefully monitor the increase of temperature of particular component/s. Once the detected temperature exceeds the alarm temperature, the Touch-2100 will automatically increase to the max. speed of that fan of the corresponding temperature channel in an effort to cool the temperature down below the alarm temperature and thus ensuring the well-being of components.

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I know that when the name Aerocool pops up so recently after the review I did on their chassis, the Xpredator X3, many might think this is yet another product that will likely be sub-par, and may not even give it a second glance. What I have learned over the years of doing this review job is that you should never consider a company down and out just because one product you saw from them was not up to expectations. Even great men that have done righteous and very commendable things for their respected fields, but I bet every one of them took a bad step along the way to success. So even with the chassis still fresh in my mind, I want to take a look at their next submission with an untainted view.

Today we are in the realm of chassis mounted fan controllers, a five channel controller to be exact. In this design, Aerocool stepped up their game and bring a product that is not only technically sound, offers a bit of elegance with the black aluminum front panel, it even offers 3.5mm jacks for HD Audio, and a pair of USB 3.0 ports (and is reverse compatible to USB 2.0). What makes this fan controller worth some real attention is that you have the ability to just touch the screen of this dual bay fan controller, and with just the tip of a finger, you can control a full system of fans.

The new Touch-2100 from Aerocool has a lot to offer in what I have already told you, but as you will see today, it even has more to offer. Things like multi-colored options for the display, the fact that it offers an alarm system that will react to both the failure of one of the fans on the controller, but it even offers temperature probes with controllable alarms. There are a couple more cool features that the Touch-2100 has to offer, but if you want to know about them you are going to need to continue reading to find out what they are.

At first glance and with a bit of time using it now, I really do think that The Touch-2100 is well worth the time to glance through and see what this fan controller is all about over the next lot of pages.

Following the chart, as far as features go, the Touch-2100 is pretty loaded. Of course, and most obviously this is a touchscreen fan controller that offers 25W per channel. The LCD screen offers seven color choices with the alternative option to fully turn off the display when not in use adjusting fans or alarm settings. They also include probes to monitor up to five different devices, and you can swap between Fahrenheit and Celsius readouts. I mentioned the overheating alarm, but not the active display of bars that denote the fans are turning. I also already covered that this controller offers a pair of USB 3.0 ports, as well as HD Audio support with a pair of 3.5mm jacks.

Dimensionally the Touch-2100 is 150mm wide, stands 85mm high and is 70mm deep, but weights in at a pretty hefty 485 grams. This is large enough to take two full 5.25" bays, but short enough not to hang out of the back of the ODD cage inside the chassis. Behind the brushed aluminum panel that covers the front, you will find an LCD with 113mm of width and 57mm of height of viewable screen. Again they mention the wattage, and the way they word things, this is capable of powering 125W of total power. The controller will find the maximum RPM when a fan is plugged in and powered on, and then allows you to control the fan speed in increments of 100 RPM, down to 50% of the fans" initial speed, or you can shut them off completely.

Pricing will vary depending on where you shop, so a little time shopping around for the best deal is advised. Considering a knob or slider fan controller with five channels will averagely cost you around $30, I expected the pricing of this offering to be a bit more than what I am seeing via Google shopping. There I find a dozen or so listings starting off at $63.99 with a listing at Newegg. I also see a local listing, that with state taxes and such applied, I would be spending much closer to $80 to acquire this fan controller.

I will just come right out with it. The last touchscreen fan controller I had was a standalone unit, but cost much more. I loved that controller, and if this new Touch-2100 is anything close to that, I think Aerocool has a real winner on their hands.

On a background that is a scene from outer space, Aerocool placed the large name of the Touch-2100 boldly at the top. In the middle you find a hand touching the screen and it offers a realistic idea of what the controller actually displays. In case you missed the feature set of this device, the front of the box displays it to make you fully aware of its capabilities.

The back also continues the theme, but on display this time is the front of the Touch-2100. Along with the image of the controller, there are lines denoting what each bit of the LCD screen is showing. On the left side you can see the color choices for the backlit screen, and it also points out the connectivity at the bottom of the Touch-2100.

Inside of the box, protecting your fan controller and that large touchscreen, is a plastic tray with a plastic lid. The controller fits snugly inside, and with the lid on, the device is very secure inside of it. There is a manual shipped on top of the whole setup, and there is even a bag with some additional hardware you may need or want to use.

Fresh out of the box with all of the wiring still tied snugly in behind the controller, you can see Aerocool also protects the screen directly with the layer of plastic that is still in place. You can also see three lighter bands on the screen that will enable you to touch in those bands to change various functions.

At the bottom of the black, brushed aluminum, face plate, between the Aerocool name and the Touch-2100 name painted on to the front, you have a pair of USB 3.0 ports surrounding a microphone and headphone jack between them.

Both sides of the controller offer thick steel sides that will allow you to easily mount this into a chassis with one of 12 choices to get it flush with the front of whatever chassis you choose to put this into.

I went ahead and unwound all of the wiring so we could get some idea of what is going on behind the scenes. The grey and black wires on the left are the five fan power leads that terminate in a 3-pin fan connector. The red and black wires are for the thermal probes. That leaves the USB, HD Audio, and the power plug at the bottom of the PCB.

Getting in much closer, you can see all of the resistors, capacitors, and Mosfets used to power each of the 25W channels in the Touch-2100. Far to the left you also have the LCD ribbon cable that powers, controls and illuminates the LCD.

The right half contains the pair of Elan chips, one for the USB controller and the other works as the MCU for the controller. There are surrounded with all sorts of power circuitry to break down across the PCB as well as the components needed to make the screen function.

At the end of near two foot of wiring, you have the five channel power leads for the Touch-2100. With these clips you can add splitters to power multiple fans on one channel, since they can push so much power per channel.

Now we are back to the shorter length of cables again, but this time there is the Molex power plug to give the controller all of its power. There are also five thermal probes sent to allow you to not only control the fans, but isolate temperatures so that you know if something needs turned up or turned down.

All of this is packed inside of a bag that you will find with all the tied up cabling from the fan controller. In this bag you will locate two additional fan leads in case you do damage to the ones on the controller, and the same is offered with the pair of extra thermal probes. You are also given eight mounting screws to be sure this isn"t going anywhere, and you are also given nine yellow stickers to apply the thermal probes to things with.

It then moves on to dimensional drawings above how to install this fan controller into a chassis. The right page delivers information on where to make all of the connections from the Touch-2100 to your motherboard, as well as the power and fan connections.

Initially I hooked up the controller to a power supply, jumped the 24-pin connections green wire to a black wire, and the Touch-2100 and five fans came to life. You can also see that the default color of the Touch-2100 is red, and while it might be a bit grainy to see now, just wait a second.

What you see is a C/F button to change temperature scales, a plus and minus key for adjusting fan speeds and thermal alarms, and a color button on the left side. To the right you see dashes that will progress across the section showing the fans are spinning, it denotes the RPM, temperature of the probe, and its alarm setting for each of the five channels.

Not only did I swap out to the green backlighting for this image, I also grabbed a hold of the channel one thermal probe to gauge its accuracy. You might also notice that similar fans are reading two different speeds, and this is due to the 100 RPM increment scale of the controller. If the RPM rises too far, the controller reads the next 100 RPM, not the actual speed.

Swapping out now for the blue backlighting I also went ahead and dropped all the fans as low as the controller would allow. What I find is that it seems that 1000 RPM is the starting point for fan control, no matter its original speed. Don"t be discouraged if you set this panel to lower the speeds and when done it seems to do nothing. After a few seconds the new settings take a hold as the fan controller automatically steps down the voltage for you.

Well folks, there you have it in all of its glory. Aerocool hit on all the major points of what a fan controller should offer users, and even took it a few steps further. While knobs or sliders would work, the touchscreen LCD is top notch gear, and it will make all of your friends envious of your fan controller. There is also the fact that over all five channels you can stack multitudes of fans before you reach the 125W combined maximum potential. If anything, this is just a failsafe to allow users to do almost any conceivable build with as many fans as you can pack into one chassis. Offering the controller in seven colors; with purple, yellow, white, and light blue not being shown previously and then of course if you need it dark in the room for sleeping or movie viewing, you can simply turn off the LCD screen all together. Can you really ask for more in a fan controller?

During my testing I did find that the controller seemed to frustrate me at first, but then I realized it just takes a moment, and the settings will kick over to what you just asked the controller to do. After I knew that, using the Touch-2100 was almost second nature, touch the RPM, hit the minus keys a few times, and then the RPM again, and away it goes to slow down the fans. It is the same way for the alarm settings.

What I really like is the built in speaker - this way you don"t have to look and see if the dashes are progressing across the screen of the Touch-2100. If a thermal barrier is broken, or the fan on a channel stops, the alarm will beep the amount of times to correspond to the channel number. This way you know right away where the issue is, and hopefully fix it easily. Funny enough, I actually found myself using this on my open air test bench for CPU coolers. Without any form of dual ODD bays, I find that the sides are long enough and supportive enough that you can easily use this device sitting on a table as well. While it may not look as nice as it will in a chassis, for the modders and enthusiasts out there, this may be a better answer than the $200 version that come in a plastic box, but done come close to what the Touch-2100 brought to the table.

With all the options available, the alarm system, the bold and easy to see backlit LCD screen and the fact that it is easy to control with just a few presses of the finger tip, the Touch-2100 wins big in all categories. It has all the power you are going to need, it has five zones if you will, and five thermal probes to verify the best thermal results throughout the chassis, there really isn"t anything more a buyer will need in an onboard fan controller. Then you consider that you are getting an additional pair of USB 3.0 ports, and you can move the HD Audio from the top of the chassis to the front if you want, Aerocool really delivers something worthy of everyone"s attention.

The fact that this can be had for around $65 anywhere inside of the USA, it just makes the deal all that much sweeter. I highly recommend the Touch-2100 from Aerocool for anyone with serious fan control needs.

Surprisngly well built considering the instructions (they"re in Engrish). All metal construction. 2 extra of each cable included incase you lose one or break one. All mounting screws included as well. LOTS of cables. 5 fan cable, 5 temperature probes, USB 2.0 AND 3.0, HD Audio and the power cord, there is a lot of cables. Seems ironic that its a product to help control the internal temperature of your PC but there are so many cable it blocks the proper airflow of the fans it controls!

You can freely increase or decrease fan speed of a particular fan according to the temperature the heat sensors of the corresponding channel detects.An alarm temperature can be set to a particular channel in order to carefully monitor the increase of temperature of particular component/s.

Once the detected temperature exceeds the alarm temperature, the Touch-2100 will automatically increase to the max. speed of that fan of the corresponding temperature channel in an effort to cool the temperature down below the alarm temperature and thus ensuring the well-being of components.As soon as the temperature is dropped below the alarm temperature, the fan speed will automatically return to the previous manually set fan speed.

There are tons of software temperature and status monitoring software, and they do a good job of letting users keep track of the speed at which their fans are spinning and how warm their graphics card is getting. This is undoubtedly useful for overclockers.

The Aerocool Touch-2100 achieves the same purpose, but it features a touch panel that fits into your optical drive bay and directly controls and monitors your system’s temperatures via fan connectors and physical temperature probes. This device can monitor five sets of fan speed and temperature points individually.

The first thing you ought to know about the Touch-2100 is that it fits into your optical drive bays and that it takes up two bays. This could be a problem for those with a chassis that only has two bays and one is already occupied by an optical drive. Worse yet are some of the modern minimalist casings where there"s only a single optical drive bay. As with all devices that occupy multiple drive bays, there"s no guarantee that it will definitely fit all casings even if the required number of drive bays are available and we would advise taking precautions like checking with your retailer if a product exchange is possible in the event of a mismatch in fit.

The Touch-2100 is so-called because it features a touch-enabled LCD display. This means it forgoes all the conventional buttons and knobs that are usually associated with a fan/temperature front panel bay controller. The display measures about 5-inches diagonally across and features customizable LCD backlight colors, of which they are seven to choose from. Surrounding it is a black brushed aluminum panel, which looks and feels nice, but would mean that the Touch-2100 would probably match dark chassis with matching front aluminum panels best.

Under the display are also two USB 3.0 ports, headphones and microphones jack. If the motherboard does not have USB 3.0 headers, don"t worry, the ports will work with USB 2.0 headers as well as Aerocool has provided connectors for the two USB standards.

Simply slide the Touch-2100 from the front of your chassis into the bay and secure it with screws. The tricky part thereafter is to manage the multitude of cables behind. In total, there are 14 cables - five fan connectors, five thermal probes, a header for the headphone and microphone jacks, a USB 3.0 header and a USB 2.0 header and a 4-pin Molex connector for power. It will take a lot of patience and dexterity to thread and manage them properly.

The Touch-2100 gets its readings off the thermal probes, so this gives users a lot of flexibility in that they can place the probe wherever they want within their casings (so long as the cable is long enough, of course). Sticky tape is also provided so that users can secure the probe to the point that they want to monitor.

Once everything is wired up, simply connect the 4-pin Molex connector and fire your system up. The Touch-2100 will light up and will immediately begin displaying your fan speeds and temperature readings. The touch panel is pretty responsive and accurate to use.

The display shows your fan speeds in one column and temperature in another. Changing your fan speed is dead simple, simply tap the fan that you want on the display and press the “+” or “-“ keys on the left. You can even turn the fan off completely. In addition, if your fan fails, the Touch-2100 will sound its alarm - a non-stop series of beeps - to warn you.

In the temperature column, you can also adjust the temperature at which the alarm goes off. Very useful for overclockers or just enthusiasts we want to keep their components running at optimal temperatures. In our testing, we also found that the Touch-2100 updates its readings in a matter of seconds.

So far so good, but we have a glaring gripe about the Touch-2100 and that is the poor viewing angles offered by the touch display. At eye level, the display is perfectly readable, but at anything more than say 15 degrees, the display becomes completely unreadable, with the numbers all showing up as "8s" and "0s". Our findings are in direct contradiction to the marketing page of the Touch-2100 where it states recommended viewing angle is between 15 and 45 degrees. Well, we"ll let the above photo do the talking.

Overall, the Aerocool Touch-2100 panel is a something that we think will appeal to enthusiasts because of its funky looks, fun operation and functionality. Furthermore, with a recommended retail price of S$89, it would not burn a hole in the wallet.

Unfortunately, the issue of its poor viewing angles is quite an annoying one. Assuming you"ve placed your computer chassis on the floor, chances are there is no way you can read the panel without craning your neck or getting off your seat or bending over, which kind of makes the Touch-2100 redundant since it is supposed to let users quickly know their system’s operating conditions. Nevertheless, if you can get past this or if it does not bother you because your system is positioned on your desk, the Touch-2100 makes for a fun addition to your system - as long as you"ve two optical drive bays available.

You can freely increase or decrease fan speed of a particular fan according to the temperature the heat sensors of the corresponding channel detects. An alarm temperature can be set to a particular channel in order to carefully monitor the increase of temperature of particular component/s.

Once the detected temperature exceeds the alarm temperature, the Touch-2100 will automatically increase to the max. speed of that fan of the corresponding temperature channel in an effort to cool the temperature down below the alarm temperature and thus ensuring the well-being of components. As soon as the temperature is dropped below the alarm temperature, the fan speed will automatically return to the previous manually set fan speed.

AeroCool are well know for producing some of the best fan controllers around and the V12XT helps to confirm this. Similar to the Touch 2000, the V12XT offers the ability to control up to four fans via a well thought out LCD touch panel display which shows the RPM of each installed fan. It also shows temperature readings of the four supplied temperature probes. These probes are to be placed next to or on critical components like the CPU and GPU heatsinks as well as items like hard drives and any other component that requires to be monitored. There is also the option of showing HDD activity on the panel.

Operation of the V12XT is very straightforward. Just press the padlock icon, press the number of the fan you want to control then press the plus or minus icons to increase or decrease the fan speed!

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