Phobya MaxGuide 6 Dualbay Fan Controller Review

The whole unit uses a green PCB, quite disappointing on the presentation front as it won’t exactly blend in to many cases.

There are a lot of cables to ensure the card reader has enough bandwidth.

The bottom has a fan fail alarm but this has a jumper to turn it on or off. With the jumper on it is enabled and with the jumper off it is disabled.

At the top you have the six 3 pin inputs for your fans. They use stock 3 pins so you can connect the fans directly to the fan controller to save on cable clutter if you so wish.

Below the fan connectors are the six 2 pin slots for the temperature sensors.

There is a molex connector at the top where this unit draws all its power from. Remember I mentioned already that no molex power cable is provided so you need to hook it directly into your power supply.

There is a USB 2.0 internal header in case you choose not to use USB 3.0. As far as I am aware the card reader shares bandwidth with the USB interface of choice.

Here is the USB 3.0 header, it is hard-wired in unlike the USB 2.0 header which is optional and can be removed.

Each of the two fan cables has three 4 pin female inputs.

The at the other end is three 3 pin male outputs that connect into the fan controller

These cables use the flat black design like we’ve seen on many new power supplies. This way no sleeving is needed so costs can be lowered but they still look just as good.

The temperature sensors are pretty standard 2 pins and they all use 60cm lengths. The fan cables are also 60cm long.