Well I just tested turning off my LEDs and well, the coolant temp instantly dropped by 2°C, from 36.5°C to 34.2°C, in less than 2 seconds.
Turning em back on gave an instant 1.5°C increase. My CPU is currently under 100% load, all cores sitting around 52 to 60°C.
After some more toying around with the instant lighting colors:
Red: 36.4°C
Blue: 35.0°C
Green: 34.8°C
Yellow/Orange: 37.6°C
Light Blue: 35.7°C
White: 38.1°C(peak)
Off: 34.1°C-34.6°C
Edit: Adjusting brightness also affects these temps, lowest setting is a minimal increase
These are instant temp jumps & drops happening in when changing the colors.
At first glance this doesn't seem to affect my CPU temps under load. But still if this cooler is setup in a default config, where the fans react to coolant temp, then yea this is not ideal.
H100i Plat firmware: 1.00.33
iCUE version: 3.13.94
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