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Taking a look at my local Corsair, I am confused by the product lineup. I am looking to replace an ageing RM550x, but it seems that replacements are lower quality. (I do wish that Corsair would make decent low power PSU's, I have no need for even 550W). The Corsair website is confusing, it lists certain products as out of stock, when I think they are actually discontinued. Much as though I don't want to go to a higher power output, would I be better going for the RM750x rather than the RM650 or e or whatever, because it is a better quality? Price is not important. Your wisdom please!!

Despite my attempts to stop it, it seems that iCUE has updated on one of my PC's. Almost as per usual, it failed when it rebooted (it just didn't run at all) and left the system with no cooling at all. Great, fantastic. Looking forward to doing more debugging for Corsair. Anyway, the point of this thread - can anyone tell me why the iCUE icon on the Win 11 Taskbar can't be removed any more? I don't want it visible on the Taskbar all the time.

What I do with Corsair, is find a version that works, then block it in the firewall so it can't update. Unfortunately, it is still necessary to update it now and then, which I did recently, and of course I chose a bad moment, because it's broken. Again. I do wish that Corsair would make older versions available, because the previous version I was running was just fine. I normally keep older versions, but wouldn't you know it, on this occasion I didn't 😕

No. After the latest 5 crashed in the mornings, I went back to 433.138. That was almost as bad. The PC lighting didn't work, and after a week it crashed on startup and trashed itself. I installed 4.28.177, which I was running for ages before I installed 5, and it's working just great. Seems that both the latest releases of 4 and 5 are hopeless. Corsair are beyond rubbish, developing software. I think this is about the third or fourth time in my history of using their products that my PC has powered up in the morning and the cooling solution has just been dead because iCue has failed. I have to block iCue from updating, or chances are it will destroy itself with a rubbish update.

Turns out, it's the latest update. "Here we go, again". I think this is the fourth time now, updates have caused a severe problem. I see that Corsair hasn't improved its testing. We will have to wait until a new release comes out. Until then, I am back on version 4.

Sorry, that wasn't a clear post. Does anyone know of an earlier version of five that works? It was only the very latest that is failing. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the previous version of 5.

Does anyone know of a later version that works? It's only the latest that doesn't, what was the release before that?

Oh dear, it seems I have the same problem. No, they don't. They have a horrific reputation of releasing the software with fatal bugs in it. This is not the first time this has happened to me. On one occasion they nearly burnt my CPU up. Never, ever use iCUE for critical cooling.

Having been working for a long time, icue has suddenly started crashing during power up. It only seems to do it when the PC is cold, which worries me that something is failing. How can I use the logs to tell what is going on?

I'm sorry, but I don't think either of you know what you are talking about. Of course switch on is a dangerous time for any electronics, but that doesn't mean you don't do it. It's just irrational fear. When the thing has a ten year guarantee, it's just fine. And you can't use single instances of failure or videos from youtube to prove your case. Anyone with a background in science should know that one instance does not make a rule. You are cherry picking to prove a case where there are no real statistics. And you can't quote electronic or electrical qualifications, either, I have them too. Again - Corsair would not offer a ten year guaranteed on a product if you can't turn it on or off, and who cares anyway as long as you have the guarantee?

I am trying to work out which PSU to get. These days it's difficult because we don't know what the next generation of GPU will consume. Right now, I need 1000W, as recommended for a 4090. However, the HX1000i has a HUGE warranty so I am trying to work out what I might need in future!! Seems that the HX1200 would be a better buy, but it lacks the i, and is also an older design. The HX1500i seems a bit over the top. By the way I have decided NOT to wait for ATX 3.0 because of the issues with the GPU power sockets.

TBH I think cablemods will clean up on this. They offer a right angle cable, and also their standard cable connects to 3 PCIe sockets rather than the 2 that the Corsair plug in to.

There seem to be enough reports of the plastic melting that it is spooking people. That's more than enough reason for people to want a right angle cable! I thought it would be a really sensible move for Corsair to have it's own Type 4.

You will sell tons of them. Many cases have issues with the cable coming off the GPU and hitting the glass in cases. People are worried about bending the cable too much cus you will set fire to the socket.

Hello! Yes it will be fine. The sense lines on the new cable are really only relevant if you have a power supply that is smaller than required. Since you have a 1000W power supply, that is at least twice the power draw of a 4090 so you are good to go.

Corsair actually say that the limit for the cable on an 850W power supply is 300W. But as far as I can see this is a user limit, in that it is not enforced by the sense lines in the cable itself, so you could happily plug the cable in to an HX850 giving you anything up to a 600W draw. You need to use your brains to figure that you shouldn't actually do that, you should buy a new power supply if you actually need 600W. But certainly for 450W then it should be OK on an 850W psu. Personally, I would be happier though if you followed the recommendation of the GPU manufacturer - which are usually around 1000W for the PSU. I mean, lets be honest here, if you can afford a 4090 then you can afford a new PSU. If I am wrong about this ( and I could well be ) then I really would be interested to hear a response from Corsair ( since I would like to know how the sense lines on the cable know what power supply you have!!).

That really is an exaggeration. You actually think that Corsair would put a 10 year guarantee on something that can't be switched on and off? There are plenty of situations where power supplies are switched off daily and they suffer no consequences. I have worked in companies were it is a policy to turn PC's off at night, and they haven't suffered significant failures. They sure used to, old power supplies were less reliable, but a modern power supply really have no problem.

I know a number of people who are not. They are waiting for atx 3.0 to appear. There are a number of 3.0 psu's for sale. True, they are mostly for pre-order, but they are at least out there. Corsair? Nothing. Silence.

Who actually knows?

It's crazy that we have all known for some time that the 4000 series is on the way, and have all anticipated power requirements, yet Corsair seem totally unprepared. I don't get it. I mean surely they would want to have the product on the shelves the before the 4000. People are buying power supplies RIGHT NOW, and they are not going to be buying older models.

I think part of the problem is legacy, part is the orientation of the cases, part is aesthetics, part is ( limited ) size and part is a lack on knowledge on the part of the builders. It simply isn't ( or shouldn't ) be necessary to have so many fans. Looks nice though!

I don't think anyone would believe that Corsair did this deliberately but what I don't understand is why anyone would tempt fate by setting an expiry date that was "on the horizon". Anyone with any sense would not do that. Anyway, too late. I have removed two of my commander pro's and have already bought the parts to replace the third. Sorry Corsair but you screwed up just one too many times. Without iCEU on my PC's I am no longer tied to Corsair hardware either. So you really do lose on this.

Just a heads up really. I have noticed a number of people being very dishonest on ebay and with other companies, Amazon for one. I have a large number of ML PRO fans. About 12 I suppose in the PC's that I have. You could say I am a bit of an expert with the ML PRO fans!!! From time to time one will fail or I will sell as part of a CPU heatsink or so on, so I need to replace. Time was now! I just needed to get two new ML140 PRO. Looking on ebay I saw several auctions where people had removed cheaper Corsair fans from cases and had placed them in ML PRO boxes and are trying to sell them as ML PRO's. There is still two auctions on there right now if you care to look ( feel free to report them! ). I bought one "used as new" fan from Amazon and was horrified to see that someone had pulled the same trick with Amazon. They had bought a new fan and replaced it with a cheaper case fan. So my advice here is, unless you know what you are doing, don't buy these fans "used". Buy new ones.

Well, that's it. I have bought the necessary components to take all fan control away from the Commander Pro's and iCEU software. On two PC's I am removing iCEU altogether. On the third PC iCEU will be used to control a few led strips. I have had it with you Corsair. Time and time again you show that you simply are not able to write critical software. I kept on giving you chances but again and again you fail. Someone must have approved that date. It is not a random thing. It is beyond belief that someone sanctioned a date that could be actually reached. Why on earth was the date not set to 2099? Rule one in software is that critical system control absolutely must not fail and heaven forbid if it does then it MUST fails safe! Of course you get bugs, but to have a certificate expire is just beyond stupid - it is utterly incompetent. Why does iCEU not have a watchdog? It should do. I will never trust you again.

I am seriously outraged by this reply, Corsair would actually send out hardware and software aimed at PC cooling that has an expiry date? Are you idiots? On the 17th My three PC's failed to detect any sensors and my brand new Z690 nearly completely melted down because all the fans failed. And I find out that some idiot thought that iCEU committing suicide was a good idea? Seriously? The reason people don't update iCEU is because Corsair can't get it's act together and delivery reliable updates. And damn me, we stick with something that works and you screw us some other way! What happens with PC's that haven't got an internet connection? ( so they haven't updated ). Are they melting as we speak? I mean seriously. The level of stupidity here is unbelievable. RULE 1 - Never ever, ever must cooling systems fail. Not ever. And to discover you did this kinda deliberately, I am lost for words. I suppose 4 has an expiry date too. That's it. Really. I am never trusting you guys again. Corsair can mange the lights because you are obviously utterly incompetent when it comes to handling anything of importance. Yep, I am furious.