Zalman joins power monitoring club

ZALMAN IS A world-known manufacturer of cooling components with its main premise being silent working, but lately the company has been expanding into new markets, such as 3D monitors or HTPC cases.

Computex was the place where it revisited its fan controller line-up, and displayed Fan Mate ZM-MFC2. This fan controller will do its main function and control up to four fans, but its main feature and selling point is the ability to measure the current consumption of your computer.

That's right, ZM-MFC2 is a non-engineering and mainstream-threatening looking power measurement device, which almost for certain guarantees a success, since many enthusiasts will just love to see how much power their computer suck from the wallet.

Stylish looking fan controller shows just how much power your computer eats

External dongle is connected to the backside of the MFC2...

This just might be the ideal component for measuring power supply efficiency, or just how much juice you have left to play with. The scale will measure up to 800 Watts, which might seam not much, given the current fashion of 1KW or 1.2 KW power supplies, but in the real world, 800W is more than enough. µ

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