daschronos

Thank you for your detailed and nuanced reply; it certainly helps clarify many things. The two noctua fans are actually plugged into the mobo header directly off a splitter (all fans headers on the board are 2A so I'm well within power limits) with the curve set to respond to mobo temps. They are also blowing directly on the a vertically mounted GPU. I left my set up as is (i.e. all Corsair fans plugged into the Commander Core). I may eventually just move to a non-RGB setup and just abandon the 360 AIO altogether. Cheers!

I'm going to be moving to Linux as my daily driver. Given that iCue is not supported in Linux, in addition to my personal preference/paranoia of software failures, especially in an unsupported OS, would I be better off plugging the 3 AIO fans directly to the mobo bypassing the Commander Core all together? Currently, with Windows, I use the hardware profile for both the RGB and cooling management with iCue completely uninstalled after initial config. So I guess my questions are: - Will the hardware cooling profile persist even with Windows removed? - Should I keep all of my 6 fans plugged into the Commander Core and use an open source software in Linux? - Should I go the mobo route and giving up on setting the fans to coolant temp and use CPU temp instead? I am still not clear about the safeguard with the Commander Core but I haven't been stressing my CPU since I built it so I haven't ran into any cooling related issue yet. This is my hardware configuration: - AMD 7900X (updated to the latest chipset) - Asrock X670E SL BIOS 2.02 - 4x32GB Corsair (CMH128GX5M4B5600C40) – Unfortunately, I mistakenly selected this model without proper filters, and it's not even on the QVL list. Returned them and got Corsair 2x48GB with QVL - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Gigabyte - 1300W EVGA Gold - Corsair icue 360 pump + 3 Corsair QL AIO + 3 corsair SR 120 (2in side+ 1 ex rear) - 2 Noctua ippc 3000 bottom - Hyte Y60