Product Photographs

Upon unwrapping the polymer-based bag from the Reeven Six-Eyes Fan controller, we get an almost wistful feeling as we see a design that is somewhere between the ‘Chronicles of Riddick-Negromonger’ and the “Sith-Lord” theme, which in all honesty is a rather attractive finish. We immediately notice the ‘Six-Eyes’ has monitoring LCD displays for each channel, giving it a multi-faceted look of the compound eyes of a bee.

Upon examining the product, we find that Reeven has chosen to employ a hard-polymer based material, rather than use metal. This could alienate some users; however, if the price is  lower than that of other manufacturers, then this will not be an issue.

Down the left and right-hand side of the front face plate of the controller are six dials each marked by a Roman numeral and these  correspond to each of the fan channels. In order to operate the fan speed, each dial must be pushed in, therefore when not in use the dial may be pushed again to ‘pop’ out. This a great idea because when a channel is no longer being used or adjustments have been completed, the consumer only needs to push the dial back in to achieve a rather ‘clean’ and flushed look. Overclockers Tech appreciates this creativity because we have never seen this feature employed before.

Looking around the rear of the controller, we examine the electronics used. We can see the product is made from two printed circuit boards. The first being used to power the LCD’s or ‘Eyes’; and the second to mount the fans, adjust settings, and provide power to the unit as a whole.

Using the above photos and by referencing the product itself, we shall move from left to right. On the left are the six fan connectors and above these are the six rather small heatsinks. However, these have no need to be overly large as they are only dispersing 12 watts of heat! Next we have the four pin power connectors (adapter to molex is included), which look alot like the old floppy drive connector. To the right of this, we have the mounting posts for the six channel temperature monitor probes. Exploring further right, we find the jumper switches for the alarm, the temperature standard readouts, and two sets of DIP switches to set the alarm temperature and the LCD colour readouts.

One of the concerns are the non braided cables between the printed circuit boards as we feel that these spoil the overall look of the build. The printed circuit boards could have been dyed a different colour-rather then the usual green, in order to give them a more appealing look.

Finally, on this section we cover the LED Colour Displays

As shown below, the Six-Eyes fan controller sports differing LCD display colours, employed by the use of RGB LEDs.  Obviously, with this method you cannot get a true white, only an approximation; however, most of the other colours shouldn’t be a problem. The colours shown below are red, apple green, purple, green, light blue and blue.

Some rather nice eye-candy for the Six-Eyes fan controller by Reeven.

Now we move on to the testing phase of the controller.