News - Corsair Commander Mini becomes available, costs £54.99

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Said to offer the "Ultimate control of PC cooling, lighting, and performance".

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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 ?

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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.

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Originally Posted by jim

Exc. VAT it's more like £12 by my sums? I'm assuming the US price is, as usual, exc. tax.

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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.

Just to clarify.

$60 today = £36.04. Both excluding taxes.

£36.04 + VAT of 20% £7.21 = £43.25. £12 for shipping, UK storage, wages and expenses that come along with it. *shrug* It's not ridiculous.

I don't think its will cost any were near £12 shipping per unit for size and in bulk £2 max

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Originally Posted by makavien478

I don't think its will cost any were near £12 shipping per unit for size and in bulk £2 max

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Say you're shipping a containers worth, I don't know maybe 2000 units, I don't think it'll cost £4000 to ship that. That is also assuming it was even shipped from the US which is unlikely.

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Originally Posted by Agent

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.

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My point is that it's a bit harsh attacking the £20 price differential when a substantial portion of that is going to the UK Government and not something that Corsair have any control over.

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Originally Posted by jim

My point is that it's a bit harsh attacking the £20 price differential when a substantial portion of that is going to the UK Government and not something that Corsair have any control over.

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Gotya, thanks.

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Originally Posted by Jowsey

It's not ridiculous.

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Each to their own. But the feature set for £55 is too little for too much IMO.

maybe I'm missing something but all the features are already found on my motherboard? i have all 4 case fans plugged into my MB and can turn them all off separate and even set temperature controlled profiles for each?

90% of the functionality can be achieved by spending that £55 extra on your motherboard when you upgrade. Better fan control profiles and better temp sensors tend to come with premium U-EFIs and can be monitored with free software.
I don't really care about the conversion rates, tax etc. Its bigger brother predecessor was too expensive, and this one is still not on the mark. If it was £20 less, i could potentially see the appeal.

At £54.99 they have lost my interest

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Originally Posted by Agent

Each to their own. But the feature set for £55 is too little for too much IMO.

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I think you've quoted me out of context there. My "It's not ridiculous" comment was referencing the the mark-up from the American price.

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

90% of the functionality can be achieved by spending that £55 extra on your motherboard when you upgrade. Better fan control profiles and better temp sensors tend to come with premium U-EFIs and can be monitored with free software.
I don't really care about the conversion rates, tax etc. Its bigger brother predecessor was too expensive, and this one is still not on the mark. If it was £20 less, i could potentially see the appeal.

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True, and you'd also benefit from other advantages. But I didn't have an additional £55 at the time of creation of my rig. So a bolt on unit that provides this functionality and can then later be used on other rigs is quiet an interest product.

And it integrates with other Corsair i series products. And these are hardly 'value' items. It stretches out the Corsair Link features so we probably shouldn't think of this as just a fancy fan controller...

But that's just my view.

I can't help but feel the unit would have been better if sized for a 2.5" or 3.5" bay. I am never likely to use all 8 HDD bays in my Corsair case, leaving a perfect space for a device like this.

you can't run pumps off it up to 1amp on fans .. you would be better of either spending a bit more getting a 30w unit or spending a lot less and getting a 15w unit just for fans ..

this seems to be all gimmick with no true body

Not as nice looking though as something like a Scythe Kaze Master in a front drive bay and there is something tactile and satisfying about manually turning a knob. ;-)

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Originally Posted by Jowsey

I think you've quoted me out of context there. My "It's not ridiculous" comment was referencing the the mark-up from the American price.

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But I didn't say the UK/US difference was ridiculous. I said £55 is ridiculous.

The comment about the difference in prices was after.

My H100i gives me four fan control points, and the headers on my board offer enough extra mounts if I need them. If I was going whole hog on a full custom loop again, I would consider the Commander Mini, because it seems to offer more than a Big NG and looks to be better value than an Aquaero controller.

The link software is fairly easy to live with.

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Originally Posted by Agent

But I didn't say the UK/US difference was ridiculous. I said £55 is ridiculous.

The comment about the difference in prices was after.

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My bad then ! No worries :)

$60 + 20% VAT = $72

$72 = £43.46 (according to Google)

Therefore ripoff = £11.54

Spreadie: you can control pumps off the BigNG and the Aquaero, according to Rearider you cannot off the Commander Mini. For watercooling that is a big difference.

After saying that the Big NG has not been upgraded in years, software is very clunky

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Originally Posted by cjs150

Spreadie: you can control pumps off the BigNG and the Aquaero, according to Rearider you cannot off the Commander Mini. For watercooling that is a big difference.

After saying that the Big NG has not been upgraded in years, software is very clunky

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Fair point - I used to run my pumps off Molex, so I hadn't considered that.