News Cooler Master Musketeer at Dan's Data

That Wacky Antipodean known as Dan has been reviewing stuff again. This time he's been vivisecting the Cooler Master Musketeer to see what makes it tick:

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It does actually do something besides look pretty. It's a "System Dynamics Detector", if you believe what it says on the box and in the less than totally impressive Shockwave thing Cooler Master have made to... well, actually, I'm not sure what they think that thing's doing. It's good to see that the Lian Li product page programmer is still getting work, though.

Anyway, the Musketeer isn't pure tinsel; it displays the temperature of one thermal probe, and it displays the voltage going to one fan, whose speed you can control. So there's that.

There's also an audio VU meter, but it doesn't have a real function. It's just a pretty needle (only one; it's mono, not stereo) that pulses in time with your music, and can perhaps in theory be calibrated to tell you something useful by tweaking the gain slider next to it. Perhaps.

Full review here