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If you are attempting so as to add lights to a PC case, you have got plenty of choices: LED strips, CPU coolers with lights, case fans with lights, keyboards and mice with lights, motherboards with lights, GPUs with lights, sticks of RAM with lights, even faux sticks of RAM that go into your RAM slots in order that you do not have un-RGB-ed spots in your setup.
But if all of that is not sufficient for you, and that you must take issues one step additional, Lian Li has a new product for you: case fans that embody not simply RGB LEDs with two completely different lighting zones, however 1.6-inch LCD screens that may be programmed to indicate your PC’s stats or small looping photographs and movies.
Fans within the UNI FAN TL LCD lineup can be found in 120 mm and 140 mm sizes, with black and white shade choices. The variations with screens value $47 for a 120 mm model and $52 for a 140 mm model, and TL fans with out screens go for $33 and $36, respectively. The fans should be related to their very own devoted fan controller, which might drive as much as seven of the LCD-equipped fans at a time. The screens can then be custom-made by way of proprietary software program, as is sadly frequent for RGB lights and mini-screens.
One wrinkle for individuals who take pains to optimize their airflow: The LCD screens are solely seen on one facet of every fan. Normally, if you happen to wished to change a fan from consumption to exhaust—that’s, blowing heat air out of the case as a substitute of bringing cool air in—you might simply flip it over. If you do this to a TL LCD fan, you would be obscuring the screens. Lian Li sells devoted “Reverse” variations of every fan that blow air the opposite means; Lian Li says that mounting the LCD fans the mistaken means can injury the screens. The non-LCD variations can merely be flipped, like a common case fan.
Other firms have performed with the concept of placing LCD screens on inside elements earlier than—a number of firms manufacture all-in-one CPU watercoolers that combine a customizable LCD display screen on the water block that is simply readable via an acrylic or glass facet panel. You also can generally discover air coolers with an LCD mounted on the heatsink someplace. But Lian Li’s fans are, so far as we will inform, the primary to mount LCD screens on the fans.
Do you really need this many little screens throughout your PC, displaying your elements’ inside temperatures and looping little snippets of video? No, in fact not. But packing RGB lighting and different customizable elements into your PC focuses extra on what can be carried out than what ought to be carried out.
The UNI FAN TL LCDs will be pre-ordered in one- or three-packs beginning at the moment. The three-packs additionally embody the fan controller, which is out there for $25 further.