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The Sentry LXE is supplied packaged in a cardboard box that is shrink wrapped to ensure all the contents remain inside. The front of the package is decorated with a colour image of the Sentry LXE's brushed aluminum external touch screen display. This display unit sits on your desk and via an 8pin power cable, it then plugs into the controller card that resides inside your computer.
The image above are all the contents that were enclosed in our package. There is the card with the 5 fan connection cables, 5 temperature diodes and a power cable to attach to a Molex connection from our PSU. There is also a battery that needs to be placed on the card to save important data like the time, date, and fan speed settings.
There is also a battery that needs to be placed on the card to save important data like the time, date, and fan speed settings.
Above is the actual card that controls everything. It simply rests in any available slot inside your case and is secured just like any other expansion card that we would install. In the lower right hand portion of the card is where the battery goes. The power cable with the Molex connector on it attaches just above where the battery sits, and the thermal diodes are attached directly above that as we can see in our image.
These probes can be placed in critical areas inside our system to monitor how hot certain components get under stress. And then we have a shot of the 5 cables that attach to the controller card. These cables attach to the 3 pin adapters on our case fans and give us the ability to control each fan speed separately.
