News - Corsair Commander Mini becomes available, costs £54.99

[HEXUS]

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

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[Jowsey]

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!

[makavien478]

Wow I see uk being ripped of again does it really cost them £15 per unit to ship I doubt it

[Agent]

£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.

[jim]

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

[Agent]

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.

[Jowsey]

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.

[makavien478]

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

[ThermalDroid]

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

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.

[jim]

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.

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.

[Agent]

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.

Gotya, thanks.

It's not ridiculous.

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

[Jasp]

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?

[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.

[Primey0]

At £54.99 they have lost my interest

[Jowsey]

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

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.

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.

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.

[Brian224]

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.