Lian Li has found a brand new frontier for LCD screens: $47 PC case followers

In case you’re making an attempt so as to add lights to a PC case, you might have plenty of choices: LED strips, CPU coolers with lights, case followers with lights, keyboards and mice with lights, motherboards with lights, GPUs with lights, sticks of RAM with lights, even pretend sticks of RAM that go into your RAM slots in order that you do not have un-RGB-ed spots in your setup.

But when all of that is not sufficient for you, and you’ll want to take issues one step additional, Lian Li has a brand new product for you: case followers that embody not simply RGB LEDs with two totally different lighting zones, however 1.6-inch LCD screens that may be programmed to indicate your PC’s stats or small looping photos and movies.

Followers within the UNI FAN TL LCD lineup can be found in 120 mm and 140 mm sizes, with black and white coloration choices. The variations with screens price $47 for a 120 mm model and $52 for a 140 mm model, and TL followers with out screens go for $33 and $36, respectively. The followers have to be related to their very own devoted fan controller, which may drive as much as seven of the LCD-equipped followers at a time. The screens can then be personalized by way of proprietary software program, as is sadly frequent for RGB lights and mini-screens.

One wrinkle for individuals who take pains to optimize their airflow: The LCD screens are solely seen on one aspect of every fan. Usually, in case you needed to modify a fan from consumption to exhaust—that’s, blowing heat air out of the case as an alternative of bringing cool air in—you could possibly simply flip it over. In case you do this to a TL LCD fan, you would be obscuring the screens. Lian Li sells devoted “Reverse” variations of every fan that blow air the opposite method; Lian Li says that mounting the LCD followers the incorrect method can injury the screens. The non-LCD variations can merely be flipped, like a daily case fan.

Different firms have performed with the concept of placing LCD screens on inside elements earlier than—a number of firms manufacture all-in-one CPU watercoolers that combine a customizable LCD display on the water block that is simply readable by way of an acrylic or glass aspect panel. You may as well generally discover air coolers with an LCD mounted on the heatsink someplace. However Lian Li’s followers are, so far as we are able to inform, the primary to mount LCD screens on the followers.

Do you really want this many little screens throughout your PC, exhibiting your elements’ inside temperatures and looping little snippets of video? No, in fact not. However packing RGB lighting and different customizable elements into your PC focuses extra on what can be achieved than what ought to be achieved.

The UNI FAN TL LCDs might be pre-ordered in one– or three-packs beginning right this moment. The three-packs additionally embody the fan controller, which is on the market for $25 additional.