A cooler innovative with a screen to monitor the PC’s vital signs? The idea would be attractive… if it were legal!
This is undoubtedly the embarrassing affair of the moment. Well, above all embarrassing for the Lamptron company, and perhaps for some of its customers. This was at the heart of the news with an atypical cooling solution.
This solution logically aroused the curiosity of many hardware specialists and, consequently, highlighted the surprising practices of the company based in China.
The need for an AIDA64 license
The story therefore begins last February, when several sites (including Clubic) reported on the ST060, an imposing cooler (153 x 152 x 120 millimeters) that the Lamptron brand had just put on the market.
The main characteristic of the ST060 is not linked to its dimensions, we have already seen larger coolers. On the other hand, no other model has until now been equipped with a monitoring screen, a fortiori a 6-inch diagonal panel capable of displaying Full HD!
For Lamptron, the advantage of such a screen is to allow real-time monitoring of all key PC data, from processor temperature to fan speed, these things obviously being largely configurable.
In order to transmit such information, Lamptron relies on well-known software, AIDA64. The ST060, like other products from the brand, comes with a key to activate the software… and that’s where the problems arise.
Officially…illegal keys!
Curious to test the ST060, Der8auer contacted Lamptron and received the product as well as the key for AIDA64. Problem, when he wanted to activate the automatic update, the AIDA64 servers specified that the license was not valid. These are things that happen.
Several inconsistencies on Lamptron’s side and discussions with FinalWire, the publisher of AIDA64, however, alerted Der8auer, who came to the conclusion that Lamptron does not deliver any legal version of AIDA64 with its products. , and that the provided keys are created by keygen.
Without AIDA64, Lamptron products are of much less interest, and the famous screens integrated into various solutions are nothing more than classic secondary monitors. Of course, we cannot condone such acts, and we advise you to stay away from this brand.
In reality, the thing is even more serious. Not only does Lamptron fall under the law for its practices, but it can take its own customers with it. Depending on your country of residence, the purchase of an illicit product may be considered as receiving stolen goods, which is also subject to sanctions.
Source : VideoCardz
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