(3/22/2012 Edit: I have purchased two more of these controllers after this post...they've sufficiently worked out the bugs and continue to add functionality as promised. I am quite impressed, and the customer support is awesome. I'm leaving this post up for informational reasons only...below is previous and since-remedied drama).
Purchased this for a watercooled i52500K build. I wanted something to control fan speed based on water temperature...something this thing has never actually been able to do. I started with Aquasuite 2012 Beta 5, Firmware 1013. I labeled everything and spent hours trying to figure out how to build a "curve." I was not successful. The best I could manage was a "Constant Value" controller, which means I have a slider to manually control fan speed.
Complaint 1: No included heatsink. Having said that, I've purchased / installed the passive HS and the benefit is nearly nonexistent.
(Edit: There is a far better passive HS now, so complaint is null
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/show…(Lian-Li-PC-P50)
Complaint 2: Not enough is posted in English.
(Edit: The forum has grown substantially since this post...getting more useful by the day)
Complaint 3: I've apparently just bricked it attempting to upgrade to Beta 6, Firmware 1014. The firmware flash progress bar gets "stuck" after hours at the 90-95% point. Then I get an error message telling me to re-flash...and then some exclamatory message in German. So...I try again...and again...NOTHING. Then I tried reverting back to Beta 5 / 1013, but now the software will no longer communicate with hardware. It still reports 1013 as being installed.
Frustrated!!!
Joshua
Update: Still no progress...and the fans are indefinitely stuck at 60%
I've uninstalled everything, cleaned out the Windows registry files, re-started, shut down ALL other applications , no UAC, no antivirus, and tried reinstalling Beta6. I am 30 minutes into firmware update to 1014...with 50% of the progress bar still showing. This is what's happened the last 5 times...I'm getting really tired of this...I just want it to at least work the way it used to, limited as it was.
Last update for this evening: 2x more fails...I am doing everything conceivable correctly. Before anyone says anything about my use of "beta" software...remember that I've been very hopeful for mere functionality. All joking aside...I'm pretty frustrated...I hope these guys stand behind their products better than they've launched them!!!
Here's my system specs:
Hardware:
Intel i5-2500k @ 4.8 GHz (Prime Stable) EK Supreme Nickel / Plexi Waterblock
Gigabyte Z68X UD5-B3 with EK Nickel / Plexi Waterblock
Two XFX 6970s in Crossfire with EK Nickel / Plexi Waterblocks
Two 140mm x 2 Radiators
Swiftech MCP355 Pump with XSPC Acrylic res top
LG BD/DVD ODD Slim drive
1TB WDC Black 6GBs HDD / 64GB Crucial 6GBs SSD (Both paired for IRST/SSD Caching)
Matrix Orbital GX Typhoon tricolor graphical display (Another very difficult, hair-pulling product which is great hardware but fails, relying totally on nearly nonexistent support)
Kingwin Lazer 1000w PSU
Razer Keyboard / Mouse
Software:
Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium (All updates completed)
Office 2010 Pro
Steam
Lots of games
LCD Studio
Speedfan
AMD Catalyst Control Center
Intel Rapid Storage Technology
*My user account is set as administrator, but I "run as" administrator regardless, just in case.
Once and for all...what can I do to get this thing up and running the way it was advertised?