Corsair Commander Mini becomes available, costs £54.99

by Mark Tyson on 20 August 2014, 11:00

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Corsair has announced that its Commander Mini control unit has become available in retail, costing £54.99 inc VAT in the UK, or $59.99 in the US. The small gadget resides in your PC case (mounting kit provided) and provides four Corsair Link Digital ports, controls for up to six fans, monitoring of up to four temperature inputs and an LED lighting strip control. Users get to control all these system aspects and monitor the results on their screens using the free Corsair Link Dashboard software. This combination enables you to "take command of your system like never before," says Corsair.

"Corsair Link marks an end to the days of case fans, component fans and case lighting that must be managed manually with hardware switches and dials, while simultaneously offering more advanced control and expansion options than motherboard BIOS settings," wrote the California based performance PC component firm in its press release. "Everything is configurable from the PC’s desktop via the Corsair Link Dashboard software interface."

Installation is said to be a snip. A mounting kit secures the Corsair Commander Mini inside your PC, the device is powered via a spare SATA power connector and an included cable connects it to one of your motherboard's USB 2.0 headers. After this initial hook-up you can start to attach the cables for your fans and temperature monitors etc. Corsair provides four temperature sensors in the kit. Upon starting up your PC you can control and monitor it via the Corsair Link Dashboard software.

Using the software you can both monitor and control your PC very accurately. For instance Corsair suggests that you can monitor coolant temperature, multiple point ambient temperatures and fan speeds "at a glance". For control the software interface allows adjustment of fan speeds individually or programs for the fans to follow depending upon ambient temperatures. Cooling profiles can be saved and loaded. The LED control can be used for either a striking visual temperature warning system or just for good looks.

If you are already an owner of a Corsair i-Series cooler, i-Series power supply or DRAM cooling systems which feature the Corsair Link Digital logo you will be glad to know the Corsair Commander Mini works with those compatible components too.

The Corsair Commander Mini is available immediately at the usual suppliers and comes with a two year warranty.

Package contents: 1 x Corsair Commander Mini, 1 x Corsair Link Digital connection cable, 3 x Fan extension cables, 4 x Thermistor cables, 1 x Mounting Tape



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This looks like an outstanding bit of kit and I will be purchasing it (if I can afford it)

Semi-passive fan set ups! Turn off all your fans until you hit gaming temps! Nerd-gasm, my only concern is how to hide this away as it's just a black box. Do you think you'd be able to fit it behind a motherboard tray ?

Edit:

Did some research - this is 13.5mm thick so I don't think it'll fit behind my mobo tray but ymmv!
Wow I see uk being ripped of again does it really cost them £15 per unit to ship I doubt it
£55 is ridiculous. A decent idea ruined by stupid pricing.

We all expect the UK price to be higher than the US one, but that's pretty much £20 more.
Exc. VAT it's more like £12 by my sums? I'm assuming the US price is, as usual, exc. tax.
jim
Exc. VAT it's more like £12 by my sums? I'm assuming the US price is, as usual, exc. tax.

US price is excluding tax, but I just tried several US states and nothing was added apart from shipping at ~$5.

I'm not sure what you mean by exc. VAT? It shows at including VAT in the article.

UK/US division to one side - the pricing at £55 is still barmy.