Fan Controller

Pros: Controls my fans as advertised. Adhesive is a versatile way to stick it anywhere.

Cons: Even though it's small it's bigger than it needs to be IMO. Adhesive is not coming off once it's on.

Overall Review: I've had this for over a year and it still works like new. Makes controlling fans very easy for an ultra-cheap price.

Pros: -Work well! -Small -Can use it on my desk!!! :)

Cons: Getting hot but don't cause any problems.

Overall Review: Be aware, controls only 1 fan, the title: ZALMAN FAN MATE 2 Fan Controller should be: ZALMAN FAN MATE 2, Fan Controller fan mate 2 is the model, it's not for 2 fans.

Pros: This unit controls ONE fan and works great. Inexpensive. Newegg customer service Rocks and shipping was fast, as usual.

Cons: Title is deceiving. It's a "Zalman Fan Mate 2" (comma), "Fan Controller". NOT a 2 fan controller. I should have read the details more carefully, I guess. Shipping was more than the cost of the controller. I wish Newegg would offer Eggsaver or a reasonable cost for shipping small items.

Overall Review: the controller is 3.5" long with a 30" cable - nice. At the OFF position, the controller will reduce fan RPM by about 50%. I used a splitter to run 2, 70mm fans off one controller (careful you don't burn out your motherboard connector doing this w/high power fans). This greatly reduced the noise from 2 loud fans I just installed. I can turn it up if I need xtra cooling or turn it down when those annoying Ipcqueen fans are louder than my TV. I really should have bought a bigger drive bay. controller , but this does the job well.

Pros: It does provide some adjustment of the fan speeds, so it will enable you to slow down a fan thats whining too fast.

Cons: The speed control is very flimsy and casued the speed monitor program to go crazy. A small adjustment to the setting caused the speed monitor to report jumps from 2000 rpm up to 30K rpm, down to below 300 rpm which would trigger the alarms. So adjusting the speed was cumbersome and finicky. But once you get it set, it generally works fine.

Overall Review: Cheap, works ok, but not great. In the end, it allowed me to slow down a loud CPU fan to something tolerable, so in that sense, it does it's job.

Pros: Had a fan that I needed to control and didnt need anything fancy. Picked one of these up and haven't looked back since. It just works like it's suppose to.

Cons: NONE

Pros: Inexpensive, versitile, easy to install, reliable. Have used it to control a fan on Home Theater amps, on a vehicle voltage converter, and in a computer mid-tower.

Cons: Be careful- if you wire it up with reverse polarity you can kill the rheostat! Apparently no protection is provided to sensitive parts. (a diode perhaps?)

Overall Review: After using this Zalman fan speed controller for months on an equipment fan, I had to re-wire it to use with a 12v auto system, and accidentally wired the polarity backwards (positve to negative on both leads). Once I realized my mistake I re-wired it correctly but now the speed controller is straight pass-through, does not attenuate the voltage any longer, the fans just run at full speed. So, treat it right and it'll do a good job, wire it backwards and you will have some expensive mini-molex connectors for your parts bin. :-)

Pros: - small - good quality - delivers

Cons: - none for my application

Overall Review: got 4 of them - you should definelty consider if you need a reliable and inexpensive solution to decrease RPM

Pros: Effective Low cost -- buy many at once

Cons: nitpick: it gets warm

Overall Review: I've used this multiple times to make silent computers. Noisy power supply fans, noisy can fans, noisy CPU fans: all are conquered with this little device. Keep in mind that even at full on the fan will not spin as fast as it would without the device. I'm assuming you're buying this to slow the fan down so this shouldn't be an issue :-)