The software for the Thermaltake Floe Riing 240 is available from here.
The first hurdle we had to overcome was the painfully slow website and even worse download speed. The file is only 25mb but took close to 30 minutes to download on a Virgin Vivid 300 connection.
After that little debacle, we forged ahead and got things up and running, which went smoothly.
Initial impressions of the software weren’t positive, sadly. The first thing we needed to do was tell the software which hardware package had been installed; we assumed the software would know this information straight away.
Afterwards we looked at adjusting fan profiles to ensure our system was running at an optimum temperature, however that didn’t go quite as smoothly as planned. We adjusted fan speeds, hit the done button, hit the save button and even tried restarting the application, all of which did nothing. We then repeated the procedure and still saw no increase. Only a system restart will apply fan profile changes, which may not bother you too much, but if you tend to switch between the profiles to manually control system temperatures between different workloads, that’s going to get tiresome.
Setting up the lighting on the fans wasn’t the most straight forward procedure, especially with there being no obvious way of adjusting all of the lighting at the same time. However, the built in profiles are plentiful and look fantastic. All of the LEDs on this kit, of which there are 30, are independently controlled.
Moving swiftly on, hoping for a more fluid and perhaps successful experience, we looked at the mobile phone app, available for iOS and Android.
Connecting the application was seamless; the list was populated with our test bench within a couple of seconds and connected immediately. Promising so far.
The phone software is used purely for the RGB lighting, leaving the fan speed to the desktop application. We set about trying to adjust the LEDs and testing the latency, if any is present. We immediately ran into yet another issue. We weren’t able to adjust the fans and the pump at the same time which made matching up lighting profiles impossible. There’s a different mode within the software for 12 LED and 6 LED (the fans are equipped with 12 LEDs per fan, whereas the pump has only 6.)
Overall, the software needs a lot of work from Thermaltake, it’s otherwise letting down a very beautiful set of fans and pump header.
The first hurdle we had to overcome was the painfully slow website and even worse download speed. The file is only 25mb but took close to 30 minutes to download on a Virgin Vivid 300 connection.
After that little debacle, we forged ahead and got things up and running, which went smoothly.
Initial impressions of the software weren’t positive, sadly. The first thing we needed to do was tell the software which hardware package had been installed; we assumed the software would know this information straight away.
Afterwards we looked at adjusting fan profiles to ensure our system was running at an optimum temperature, however that didn’t go quite as smoothly as planned. We adjusted fan speeds, hit the done button, hit the save button and even tried restarting the application, all of which did nothing. We then repeated the procedure and still saw no increase. Only a system restart will apply fan profile changes, which may not bother you too much, but if you tend to switch between the profiles to manually control system temperatures between different workloads, that’s going to get tiresome.
Setting up the lighting on the fans wasn’t the most straight forward procedure, especially with there being no obvious way of adjusting all of the lighting at the same time. However, the built in profiles are plentiful and look fantastic. All of the LEDs on this kit, of which there are 30, are independently controlled.
Moving swiftly on, hoping for a more fluid and perhaps successful experience, we looked at the mobile phone app, available for iOS and Android.
Connecting the application was seamless; the list was populated with our test bench within a couple of seconds and connected immediately. Promising so far.
The phone software is used purely for the RGB lighting, leaving the fan speed to the desktop application. We set about trying to adjust the LEDs and testing the latency, if any is present. We immediately ran into yet another issue. We weren’t able to adjust the fans and the pump at the same time which made matching up lighting profiles impossible. There’s a different mode within the software for 12 LED and 6 LED (the fans are equipped with 12 LEDs per fan, whereas the pump has only 6.)
Overall, the software needs a lot of work from Thermaltake, it’s otherwise letting down a very beautiful set of fans and pump header.
