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Nearly all Asus boards have auto detect PWM/DC headers. They are not infallible and can make a mistake. However, if three fans in three different headers suddenly max out inappropriately, it’s more likely a software issue and not PWM/DC detection error in three separate headers at the same time. Where this can get really entangled is Armory Crate works with the bios on a deep level and can override the bios settings and commands. If something goes wrong with AC, it can scramble the bios too. Getting Armory Crate out of your system is hard, although the full windows wipe will certainly do it. However, if AC went wonky prior to this, it may have written a bad curve to the BIOS. I would load into the bios and see what it has assigned in the EZ bios QFan section. There also are manual settings for PWM and DC in the same place. While you’re there, use any +-12 second delays you see. That will prevent the fans from cycling up and down incessantly with cpu temp.

It is going to be covered by Amazon and/or the seller's warranty. It's fairly short in either case. Corsair used to sell their renewed products on Amazon and that was different, but I don't think that program is still in place. Corsair does sell their own renewed products ("revival") and those do come with a Corsair warranty, although usually in modified form.

Fans are not magical. Your motherboard general control software is running a control program for them. Presumably you are using it or you would not have RGB control over the strip or fans. You need to go in there and see the fan curve. You also may want to look and your full screen shot from above and see if you got a CPU temp figure in the capture. It is the most likely thing to have changed in any one moment. It's possible your motherboard software program had a moment and got stuck with all fans at maximum, but that is their software issue. You haven't identified what board and program you are using, but you don't need CUE and it is likely better you don't run it.

No, this should not happen. The power required to run a couple of 12v strips is minuscule and should have no impact on anything other than the light in the case. The AR fans are designed to be controlled for speed any lighting by your motherboard. They do not have a CUE connection and won’t show there. Any changes in fan speed control come from your motherboard. It seems like you are likely using default motherboard curves and those are usually based on cpu temp, with the sole purpose being to control the cpu air cooler. CPU temp is not a good control variable for case fans because of its extremely dynamic nature. I am not sure what other options you have, but your MB control program should have some other choices.

Ok. Even if there is a registered pump speed, if you power on and the cpu temp starts climbing and never stops, this is a zero or low flow state and an AIO issue. Could be a blockage or the pump impeller may have broken (usually very noisy). This occurs with minimal cpu load. Sit on the desktop and you can watch the cpu temp skip toward 100. Once there, you cannot cool it down except by leaving the PC off for hours. This is in contrast to “the cpu temp is too high when doing _____” or when gaming g the gpu temp continues to increase. Those are voltage or environmental issues and can be addressed by the user.

Not going to see a puncture leak in the middle of the tube. Nearly all of them result from the tube getting pulled out of it's insertion point or occasionally physical damage to the radiator. It appears the sleeve is simply stretched out and that is cosmetic. However, if it is bugging you... start a Support Ticket with Corsair. See if they will send a new one or use the same option with the vendor. While this will never matter for performance, part of the price is the aesthetic value. If it fails there, that is a legitimate reason to swap it.

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Hydrochloric Acid (HCl). Not a serious comment. I think the wear is both unusual and extreme. I have not seen anything even close to that over the product lifespan. Contact Support as means to replacement. However, the soft tactile construction on that mouse may lend itself to more wear and tear compared to other mice.

If you manually quit CUE, does the problem persist? Not sure if this is hardware, software, or OS originating yet.

This is typically what happens when MSI mystic light/aura tries to grab control of the device during load. Go into your MSI settings and make sure the “sync all” function is turned off. That function seems to have extended complications when used. It also seems like you have enough gear where you need to use CUE, so I don’t see a reason to be using the JCorsair rgb header on the MB (if you even have one). That’s what MSI integration does. It does not transfer full motherboard rgb control to CUE. Turn it off for now to help isolate the cause. Corsair KBs often default to red when there is a hardware issue with its internal lighting controller. However, that would be a permanent state and the CUE service restart would not matter. This appears to be a software conflict.

No more washing your hands with HCl before gaming. I was about to write we haven’t seen any Darkstar mice exhibit that kind of wear, but that appears to be a Dark Core and there have been a few photos over the years where that ‘soft’ skin flakes a bit. However, I haven’t seen anything that extreme and not in that short a time. I got mine out of the box. It likely has 1000 hours of use. Not a spec of material missing and I am not overly concerned with the state of my hands when I sit down at the PC. If you bought it new, contact Corsair Support. That level of peeling seems like a fabrication problem, but be prepared for someone to claim ‘normal wear and tear’. If you bought used, you’re probably out of luck. If you’re trying to decide whether to buy another, I’d say that depends on how much you loved the feel. A new M75 Air is roughly the same price, wireless, and likely more durable. Some of the newer wireless gaming mice like the Darkstar are very expensive.

With the CUE software running, you should have an option to disable the side buttons. It is a separate option in the assignments choices on the left side. However, you can’t do that in hardware mode, so if you need them to be disabled during non-CUE use the best option might be as you suggested — to assign a meaningless key. That can be done in HW mode. Not sure what will work best for you, but likely something like Shift or ALT that does not produce a character when activated to cover any accidental presses.

I don’t think there’s any reason the worry. The outer sleeve is cosmetic and you sometimes see small sections that are not ‘skin tight’ on the underlying tube. That little wave closer to the radiator side may relax in time after the tubes heat up (mostly from case temp). However, if you feel genuine kinks or creases in the underlying tube beneath the sleeve, that is potentially problematic. It could restrict the flow and those should not pass a QC check.

The RAM is the only CUE device? While usb disconnect issues are very common on x570 platforms, it is not usually the RAM in play since it communicates in a different way. Are these CUE crashes? Or the RAM drops in and out of CUE?

That is all normal and the CPUID CUE uses to fetch the data has trouble with the Asus Embedded Controller. Other programs like HWinfo will give you a warning about it, but seem to handle the interaction better. You get lots of duplicates and junk values at the min/max end of the range. This has been an issue for many, many years. Similar discussion earlier this week.