Silverstone CMD01 Commander ESA Edition Review 5

Silverstone CMD01 Commander ESA Edition Review

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Value & Conclusion

  • The Silverstone Commander CMD01 ESA Edition will set you back around 45€ or $49.99 US Dollars. This price is in line with other monitoring devices out there.
  • Justified price
  • Can handle four fans
  • Four temperature diodes included
  • Three Molex connectors, for lighting accents
  • Enables ESA in combination with the right mainboard for any chassis out there - giving you complete choice
  • No extra software needed
  • Well built
  • Available in black or silver
  • All cables included
  • Molex cables wrapped in black for a cleaner look
  • Good, compact package
  • Does not deliver much more than other monitor devices
  • ESA requires an NVIDIA chipset to function
  • Connectors hard to reach when Commander is installed
  • Cannot control lighting accents
  • Design does not match clean case front of most high-end cases
The Silverstone Commander CMD01 ESA Edition may not look like anything out of the ordinary from the outside. There is no external display and you won't find any dials or buttons on the device. All these functions are controlled via the NVIDIA nTunes System Monitor software, which is freely available from NVIDIA. The obvious downside of the software is the fact, that you require a mainboard from NVIDIA to access all the functionality. The upside of this being, that you only require a single application to access every monitoring aspect of the system with the ability to tweak it. This is an exclusive feature for NVIDIA and Silverstone manages to deliver this functionality for every chassis out there. You will not need to choose from a limited number of ESA capable cases any longer. Simply go for the enclosure of your choice and add the Commander CMD01 ESA Edition and you are ready to go.
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