You want to control the screaming fans that are keeping your high-end computer cool. You want to add some cool blue CCFL lights. However, you don’t have a free 5/25” drive bay for one of those cool rheobus devices, nor are you good enough with electronics to wire your own switch. You are sitting there, looking at your case that has no 5.25 drive bays available thinking “What am I going to do?” Then as your gaze slides down your case, you see it, that blank 3.5” drive bay cover, right below your floppy drive. That is when it dawns upon you, if someone made a fan & light controller that could fit into the 3.5” bay, it would rock.

Armed with your newfound determination you hit the web searching. You find 3.5” fan controllers. You find 3.5” baybus controllers, even dual voltage bay bus controllers. Finally, you come across your salvation. The Vantec Nexus NXP-305-BK, a 3 channel fan controller with a built in dual CCFL inverter and on, off, sound activated switch. And look, it even comes with 2 12” blue CCFLs!

It is perfect! It is everything you ever wanted in a fan and light controller. But is it any good? Well, that is where we come in. Read on trooper and find out if the Vantec Nexus NXP-305-BK fan & light controller is worthy of the Vantec name, and your hard earned cash.