Wednesday, January 8th 2025
DarkFlash Cooling at 2025 CES: Compound Fan with Segment Displays, and Stackable Fans
A rather recent cooling concept with the growing popularity of liquid cooling and radiators, is compound fans. These are monolithic frames with multiple fanlets. The design eliminates visible cabling among the fans, as well as the number of screws needed to mount one onto a radiator. DarkFlash put the space gained from this design (such as the gaps between the fanlets) to use with segment LED displays that put out useful information such as air temperature, and fan speed. The fan connects to your machine over a single PWM cable, and a single RGB cable. That's not all, it even communicates to a control module with a larger segment display that lets you control its speed, lighting, and monitor parameters. Next up, are the company's Gauss G-series fan sets. These are individual 120 mm fans that feature interlocks, letting you mount up to six of them onto radiators. The interlocking eliminates cable clutter.
1 Comment on DarkFlash Cooling at 2025 CES: Compound Fan with Segment Displays, and Stackable Fans
Why didn't they just create an app for that & add a wifi/BT transceiver to the fans so you could control it with your phone & not have to deal with yet another device laying on your desk ?