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With the speed at which computer components now run, there is a tremendous amount of heat generated inside a PC. While case fans help cool the system, they generally only provide horizontal airflow. With that in mind, Vantec introduces the Spectrum Fan Card. Utilizing any available PCI slot, the Spectrum Fan Card serves a dual purpose of directly cooling any PCI/AGP cards surrounding it as well as providing better air circulation with two adjustable fans. Made from UV sensitive material and featuring built-in UV LED lights, the Vantec Spectrum Fan Card lights up your case while cooling it down.
PCI Card Styled Fan Array With dual 70mm ball bearing fans with adjustable speeds at 2400~4000RPM on a PCI card styled board, the Vantec Spectrum Fan Card can be installed in any available PCI slot, providing up to 29.54 CFM airflow in vertical direction for increased air circulation and lower case temperature.
Light Up Your System With built-in ultra bright UV LED lights, the Vantec Spectrum Fan Card emits mystic blue light for eye-catching fun and enhanced ambience, perfect for cases with side see-through window.
Pros: The obvious pros of this is that it can cool down your expansion cards and does it nicely. It covers the entire cards surface and fits snug. I have mine cooling my nVidia 9800 GT and it sits right alongside it. The fan has a slider to set the speed which gives you a lot of options as to how fast you want the fans spinning. I keep mine about 1/4 of the way up. If you're in for a long night of gaming or rendering then turn this puppy up. The blue LEDs are a plus and aren't overly bright since it sits low in the case. I've put this into two separate computers and have had no problems. It has lasted the three years I've had it.
Cons: Their are a few cons that mostly have to do with design. The card takes up a PCI slot. While this doesn't make much of a difference to me it is something to consider if you may need it later. It is powered by a separate cable and not the motherboard which makes sense to get the amount of power it needs to spin that fast. But as I said this can be a issue because it takes up a card slot and a power plug. This doesn't tend to work well with SLI configuration due to space restrictions between cards.
Overall Review: This is a nice fan and can be quiet helpful with overclocking a graphics card if you need extra cooling. Just be aware of its needs and your own.
Pros: plenty of air movement, slim, has speed controller. Glows pleasant blue. I use to control an otherwise warm running Adaptec RAID card, and also on board NVMe m2 DRIVES
Cons: not much of a con, but takes up a case slot - though not a problem if not using the adjacent PCIe slot.
Overall Review: Nice to have - priced right,
Pros: can move a fair amount of air really..
Cons: can also sound like a small turbine going on a few feet from your ears! but at about 40%-50% it's quite tolerable.. and the uv blue (not a deep blue) is something i wish i could dim to about 50% as well...
Overall Review: for the price, this little 'card' does help out with cooling.. i have it in an upper slot with a perforated slot cover in the space below it, blowing up over my northbridge and through my low profile cpu hsf and out a 200 mm top exhaust fan.. lowered my northbridge temp 5% + and cpu temp a little more than that.. still think that i'll mod down the brightness of those lights though...
Pros: worked to cool 3 different graphics cards (1 passive cooled , 1 where the fans wouldnt spin die to low temps because of this fan, and 1 riser cable temp reduction) fans can come off with tiny clips
Cons: nothing really
Overall Review: Modded the life out of it, the base is black and the fans are white now, i have the LED's removed and not really using it lol
Pros: Extra cooling option for video card and looks cool.
Cons: led has grown dim but what do you expect I have been running it since 2007 and fans still running strong.
Pros:
Reasonably priced
Reduced temperature on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9266-4i by 13 degrees C at low fan speed
Occupies just one PCI slot
Barely audible on low speed
Cons:
Too noisy at higher fan speeds, although at high it only reduces temperatures by additional 2 - 3 degrees C
Six months after use, one fan started making an uncomfortably loud grinding noise. Vendor was quick to approve RMA but the cost of shipping isn't worth returning.
Air flow is limited
Overall Review: Wouldn't recommend purchase. Trying the Titan TTC-SC07TZ(RB) Z-AXIS VGA Cooler instead.
Pros:
Perfectly matched my fan LED color and looked pretty awesome in my case.
Fits well in any PCI slot and not too bulky.
Cons:
Lights eventually were darkened. Very significantly darker than when new. (expected)
Not exactly effective in terms of extra cooling. Overall case temperature and GPU temps were lower by around 1 or 2 degrees Celcius.
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Pros: Installs in a PCI slot under the GPU for extra cooling and air flow. I rarely ever use all these slots, so it's a great place to add more fans.
LEDs for extra flair.
Adjustable speed.
Includes screw for installation.
Decently long cord with Molex connector than can be daisy-chained is a nice plus.
Cons: The plastic tabs that plug in to the PCI slot feel pretty thin. Thankfully they don't actually make any electrical connection to the mobo.
Adjustable slider is located on the back of your PC. Depending on your setup, you'll probably never want to fiddle with it.
Overall Review: After having a PC suffer from poor air flow, I wanted to include as many fans in as many places as I could in my new build. The location of this one is very interesting as it should help take some load off the GPU fans. The blue LEDs were a perfect fit for my already blue theme too.