Ease of Use, Performance: 22/25, Look & Feel: 24/25,
Features 23/25, How much I enjoy 22/25
Total: 91/100
The Kama-Meter is the perfect Multi Controller for cooling and temperature monitoring plus the additional audio adjustments all in one convenient 5.25 inch bay location. The Kaze Jyuni and Ultra Kaze fans are the perfect cooling solution for any PC case and you can get the exact fan you need for your specific cooling solutions.
The Kama-Meter comes with the 5.25 inch bay assembly, the power cable that connects to a four pin molex, four temperature sensors, four fan control cables, three face plates in various finishes, instructions, an audio connection adapter and audio cable. The Kama-Meter is very easy to install and set up for the perfect cooling control as well as information center for your system.
Installing the Kama-Meter is simple with the 5.25 inch bay assembly installing in any available 5.25 inch bay and the cables are easy to connect and route. They are plenty long enough to get anywhere inside my current case, an Ultra Products M998. I installed the four sensors to read my CPU heatsink temperature, case temp and the hard drive temps.
The audio setup is to control your entire audio set using a knob on the controller that puts an additional volume control on your system between the computer and the speakers. This is especially handy for external speaker systems that have little control themselves and you don’t want to be using your computer to control the volume.
Once the system is installed you have three convenient settings for your temperature, fan speeds and volume as well as the displays showing you the settings. You can switch between the four temperature sensors to see what the temperature is that you placed the sensors. I placed the four sensors on the CPU heat sink, the side of the drive cage and one on each hard drive.
You can also control up to four fans using the fan switch and speed knob to control the four fan speeds. The audio volume lets you control the volume of a speaker system by placing the adjustment between the PC and the speakers. This allows for volume control without interrupting a game on your computer.
The Kama-Meter is an easy to install and use controller for your systems fans and temperature as well as the additional audio adjustment. I also received four fans from Scythe that make the perfect companion to the Kama-Meter with a good variety of sizes and speeds.
The Ultra Kaze line of Scythe Fans offer a good assortment of high performance fans in the 120mm by 38 mm size with speeds of 1000 RPM, 2000 RPM and 3000 RPM. The Kaze Jyuni or Slip Stream line of fans offer the same performance at a slimmer size of 120mm by 25mm with speeds of 500 to 1900 RPM’s.
Both lines of fans are great with long life sleeve bearings and come with four mounting screws and a four pin molex to the three pin fan connector adapter. The entire line of fans are the low noise that I did get to check out using my new SPL1000 Boom Stick Noise meter that measures in DbC weighting. This is not the same as the DbA weighting that Scythe uses but I do get a chance to compare these fans to some others and see the results of some basic fans to the really good ones from Scythe.
I measured all four fans I received for reviewing, two Ultra Kaze at 1000 and 3000 RPM’s and two Slip Stream fans at 1200 and 1900 RPM’s and a generic 80mm fan and found some surprising but understandable results. The 80mm generic fan was noisier than three of the four Scythe fans, both the 25mm thick slip stream fans and the 1000 RPM Ultra Kaze fan were at least a few decibels quieter. The 80mm generic fan ran about 60 dBc with the sensor of the meter about six inches from the fan and the other fans were about 45, 50 dBc for the 1200 and 1900 RPM Slip Stream. The Ultra Kaze fans were 48 and 65 dBc for the 1000 RPM and 3000 RPM fans with the meter at about six inches from the fans.
I also tested some other fans and found this same result in a few other small fans and the more odd named ones were usually the louder. The generic fans I have are from older PC’s but a few fans I have are from more recent PCs and a couple are even brand named ones like Apevia. One Apevia Fan I measured was at about 55 dBc for the noise level for a smaller 80mm fan.
The fans from Scythe are plenty quiet and would make a great addition to any computer case and not add a lot of noise as well. The fans come in the 120mm by 30mm and 25mm sizes with plenty of choice for speeds for the better airflow or quieter noise levels you need.
I highly recommend both the Kama-Meter 5.25″ Multi Function Controller for a great all in one fan and speed control center and the Ultra Kaze and Slip Stream or Kaze-Jyuni case fans from Scythe.
