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Not OP but this appeared in my YT feed the other night. [ame] [/ame] What I would love is a transparent LCD film/e-ink mod to display CPU/GPU temps like the competitions.

OMG!! I thought I was ready to go with this. Looks like I have a couple of days worth of reading and processing the info before I even start....potentially need to order a few more bits and pieces to to what I want......and potentially need to order a lot more bits and pieces after starting to read that amazing guide and watching the YT videos. For example, I have 10m of cheap Amazon Chinese RGB LED strips on my desk, a 3m section of which seems to be failing. Was thinking of swapping that out for aRGB 10m strip but it started to get complicated when asking about controlling it from a PC or with music etc. Seems like if I went the Corsair aRGB strip route for the Desk lighting, while still complicated, it would integrate a lot better with the PC's and do not just what I want but more than I realised I wanted! LOL. Quick Question for you Zotty about the Linking of 2 PC's RGB to iCUE on one PC via a USB cable and the Corsair RGB Strip Desk lighting. I see the RGB strips can be powered by an external 12v powersupply wall plug. Is it possible to have the Desk RGB strips controlled by iCUE on my main rig when its turned on and be able to utilise all those fancy iCUE aRGB effects especially Music control.....but when that main PC is turned off have the Desk strips still be powered up via the wall plug and defaulting to a preset colour? See this setup is the main 5900x/RTX3090 Rig and a 24/7 Media Server on the same desk in the same room which ultimately be a Home-Cinema/VR/Motion Simrig/Gaming room. On the one hand using the 24/7 Media Server as the iCUE controller of the Desk lighting makes more sense if I can't have the Desk lighting still on and with a static colour even if the main rig was turned off, because the Media Server is on 24/7 and I could turn on and off the Media server and Desk lighting together whenever I wanted. However, then I'd have to shift music playing over to the Media server to get the Music aRGB effects and connect it to my 5.1 Receiver....while at the same time also wanting my main Gaming/VR rig connected to the 5.1 receiver too which means my old Receiver won't cut it anymore and I'd need a new one with multiple HDMI inputs.....arrrggghhh!!! My Brain is FRIED!!!!! :D::D: [EDIT] Oh, actually this diagram might answer one of my questions? Am I correct that the RGB strips can default to a preset colour when iCUE is off? In other words, the Desk strips connected to the Lighting nodes and a Corsair PSU and Alexa Smartplug can be turned on/off independently of the Main rig and display a pre-set Static colour when the main rig is off but thanks to the USB connection back to the main rig, when that main rig is turned on, iCUE on the main rig can take over control of the Desk RGB strips and give me all the fancy aRGB effects?? Just how much $$$$ is that many Corsair Strips to do 10m+ worth of runs on my desk and maybe even more if I wanted to light up other parts of the room with strips. Is the image in the diagram just using a stock Corsair PSU image or would one really need an 850W PSU to power that many strips?? Current room setup for reference but due to get a whole lot fancier....and more complicated:

Managed to get a prebuilt in only 3 weeks with the following base specs: Ryzen 9 5900X Asus X570 Strix Gaming F 4x8gb 3600mhz Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro Asus Strix RTX3090 Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL Separately I bought: Corsair H150i Elite Cappellix AIO Corsair Commander Pro 3x Triple Fan Multipacks of the QL120's Lian Li Strimer Plus RGB 24pin Motherboard cable Lian Li Strimer Plus RGB Triple 8pin GPU cable LS100 Starter Pack (only intend to use 1x 250mm strip in this PC. The rest going into another build) How do I get all this connected and controlled by the iCue Software? Would I be right in thinking that straight off the bat, I don't need the Lighting nodes that come with the Triple Fan packs because I'll have all the LED headers I need on the Commander Pro and the Commander Core that comes with the H150i Cappellix AIO? So I plan to do Push/Pull on the 360mm Cappellix Rad mounted as intake to the side location on the O11 Dynamic XL. 3x spare Corsair PWM Non LED Radiator fans mounted to the back side of the rad not visible inside the case and 3x QL120's. I presume the Commander Core that comes with the AIO can accommodate this. ie. the 6 PWM fan cables connected to the CoCo and the 3 LED cables from the 3 QL120's. All 6 fans speeds controllable by iCUE based off of water temp. Then connect the other 6x QL120 Case fans PWM and LED cables to the Commander Pro. Do I daisy chain the CoCo and CoPro USB headers together to one USB header on the motherboard? While I think I have that right (though maybe not) the confusion really starts to set in when I think about the Lian Li Strimer PLus RGB power cables. While I have read that they can be controlled by iCUE, I am not sure how to connect them. Do they or can they connect to the CoCo or CoPro or do I use one of the lighting nodes that came with the fans. How and what do the lighting Nodes connect to?? Or do the Stimers still connect to their own RGB controller and that connects to the Lighting Nodes or do the Strimers connect to their own controller and their own controller connects to an RGB header on the motherboard and the iCUE controllability I heard about is via the motherboards RGB header. I think I read that Asus is one of the few companies with compatibility arrangements for its Mobo RGB system with Corsair. The single LS100 250mm strip I am going to take out of its diffuser and place inside the Fan shroud at the bottom of my Strix RTX3090 that I am taking apart anyway to do the Thermal Pad replacement Mod. GPU will be Vertically mounted on a bracket so Fans facing forwards out the side of the case. Should do a much better job of lighting up the GPU Heatsink and fan blades than the Strix RGB strip along the top and controlled by iCUE as a bonus so perhaps even some nifty aRGB effects possible on the Strix 3090 fan blades. Does anyone know if the O11 Dynamic XL's own RGB Strip requires its own USB header (possibly taking up one of the potentially valuable 2x USB 2.0 headers on this motherboard or does it use the mobo aRGB header? In case you are wondering, the 3x ML120's that came with my Cappellix will be used in another build along with 1x250mm and 2x400mm LS100 RGB strips, a Corsair A500 Tower Air Cooler with 2 ML120's fitted. So 5x ML120's in total. Any use for my spare Lighting nodes over in that build or might I be best served if I actually moved the CoCo or CoPro from the main O11 Dynamic build to be the iCUE Fan/LED hub in the other build and buying some other PWM controller for the main O11 build to replace the CoCo or CoPro that you tell me to move to the other build? That other build btw will be a 12 Bay Media Server. Its 4x 3Bay Corsair 900D Hotswap Caddies in a modified Corsair Air540 case. The Cooling setup is probably technically overkill but I have most if not all the gear, overkill means being able to run it at minimum RPM's and thus quiet and Aesthetics are a major consideration for me. So effectively it doesn't matter if the chosen fan control setup is running the case/HDD fans and CPU fans all at the same speed because they are on the same controller or something like that. They'll all be running minimum RPM's anyway. A cool mod I'm doing is adding a 7" Touchscreen to the front of the Case. Normally this will Display a Sensor Panel showing CPU stats like Temp/Fan speeds, load, freq etc but most importantly, HDD SMART info for each drive showing capacity, free space, drive health, temp etc. I'd like to add a shortcut onscreen button to turn off iCUE controlled Fan/LS100 Case lighting when its sleepy time (all this PC gear is in my Bedroom) Has anyone done this with a software button and scripting that can toggle iCUE lighting on/off? I hope I haven't overwhelmed any potential respondents with this TLDR post. (Take it a paragraph at a time?? ;): ;): ) Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Ordered a prebuilt from a UK System Integrator despite building my own PC's for 15 years in order to get a GPU and closer to MSRP and much quicker. Its a Lian Li O11 Dynamic Midi Tower White, with a Ryzen 7 5800x, Asus Strix Gaming F x570 motherboard, 4x 8gb sticks of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200mhz DDR4, Asus Strix RTX 3090 OC, 512GB Samsung 980 Pro NVME (Gen4) for OS, 2TB Samsung 970 Evo NVME (Gen 3) for Games Storage and I will transfer from current build 2x 3TB Toshiba 7200rpm HDD's for Media. As this SI doesn't have all the parts I want I will order the following items separately. 10x Corsair Black Framed QL120 RGB fans, an iCUE Commander Pro and an NZXT Kraken Z73. Sorry Corsair, but I fell in love with the Kraken Z73 so no Corsair AIO for me this time with this build. So the plan is basically this aesthetically speaking though some parts differ from the build in the video: [ame] [/ame] There is room in this case to run the 360mm Radiator in Push/Pull if I decide to put the Rad in the Side mounting point to the right of the Mobo in that Vid. So my 10x QL120's would be all the visible fans in the case like the VID (10th Fan as another exhaust over IO Shield) but I would also have the 3x NZXT Radiator fans hidden on the backside of the Radiator. So the question is how to wire all that up. Do the Nodes that come with the 3x 3Packs of QL120's combined with the CoPro cover the RGB connections for the 10 QL120's? Can the CoPro in combination with some PWN Y splitters or a seperate PWM Controller cover the 13 fans? Ideally I want to be able to control all 6 fans on the Radiator (ie. 3x QL120's and 3x NZXT Rad fans) with the iCUE or NZXT Control software such that they are based off of the Water temperature and not the CPU or Core Package temps. Back in the day with my Corsair H110GT cooling a 6700K, no matter what fan curve I set the fans would ramp up and down even in google chrome on a media heavy web page. It was only when I realised that it should actually be based off of the AIO Water temp which is much more stable, did my fan ramping issue get solved. I would like to maintain that functionality with this new PC. WHats the best way to achieve that? All 6 rad fans connected to CoPro headers and the other 7 case fans on a separate Fan controller. Or those 7 case fans connected to the CoPro (with 1 Y splitter) and the 6 Rad fans on a separate controller connected to where it needs to be for the NZXT AIO Control software to manage the rad fans? On my old build I also used Speedfan to base the Case Intake and Exhaust fans speeds off my GPU temps. ie My GPU fan profile was set not to even spin up till the card hit 50ºc. Case Intake and Exhaust were set in Speed fan to minimum RPM. When gaming though, once the GPU temp went above 50ºc, I set a curve in Speedfan to increase the RPM's of the Case Intakes and Exhaust. Is this possible to replicate in iCUE? Is it possible to shut down iCUE without losing fan control or shut down the RGB component of it at least. Apparently iCUE can flood the USB sub system with 'interrupts' as it controls the RGB which can affect VR negatively. So when I VR game I may need to shut off the RGB control. Other users in my household on my home network will also be VR gaming on this PC remotely as well as 2D Pancake gaming via Steam In-Home Streaming/Remote Play without direct access to the PC. Ideally when they use this PC remotely and wake it up WOL with a 'magic packet', I wonder is it possible to set up a scripted or scheduled task or something like that, that would shut off RGB when they connect and re-enable it when they disconnect. Not sure if that kind of thing is possible though.

I watched the latest Gamers Nexus YT video about Pump/Radiator orientation [ame] [/ame] and despite my unusual case and thus pump and radiator orientation, I reckon I am probably good and have inadvertently achieved 'best practice' by accident as my H110iGT has worked flawlessly and silently for 4 years. Heres some photo's of my case and its orientation. https://imgur.com/a/32GJ29q My Corsair Air540 is orientated on its side with the clear side window facing the ceiling and this does indeed put the pump below the level of the radiator. A fellow redditor confirmed my intuition that air if it was to collect at the highest point would be at the top of the flow and return tanks at each end of the Radiator and depending on how much air had permeated into the loop in the last 4 years, if the highest tube is the return to the pump, this could suck air back to the pump whereas if the bottom tube is the return then there is no chance of air thats collected at the tops of the flow and return tanks getting sucked back through the pump. So the question is this. How can I tell which tube/hose into my CPU/Pump Block is the flow and which is the return?

Imgur Album of my pair of Corsair Air540's on their sides.

I have a request for my RGB Strafe. I have an Air540 case with Thermaltake Riing RGB fans. I bought them intending to mainly use them white but with the option of using other colours if the mood took me. I was very disappointed to discover that the 'White' of an RGB LED is very differrent from a single Colour White LED. It turned out that the Riing fans white was actually a very Turquoise and purple colour and nowhere near white. However, very quickly I grew to love this colour. Its very visually interesting. The LED Ring is on the Turquoise end of the spectrum with a purple glow cast on the fan blades and there is a prism rainbow effect to the cast/reflected light. I found a colour code in Cue that made my Strafe KB and M65Pro mouse match the PC fans reasonably well. The Keyboard is pretty much Turquoise but the lit Corsair Sails logo on the mouse has this same lovely gradient from purple to Turquoise as the fans. I've had it all set this way for the last year but I happened to be posting about these fans in another thread on the forums tonight and the thought occured to me, "maybe Cue can have a purple->Turquoise colour gradient across the keyboard too!!" http://i.imgur.com/Rd4RvXj.jpg It doesn't show up in this photo well but the led rings are Turquoise and the reflected lights on the Blades is purple. So I wonder if someone could do me a profile or explain to me how to do it, to have a static colour gradient across the keyboard from left to right, either Purple to Turquoise or Turquoise to Purple??

Bought this Ram for my 6700K on an Asus Z170-A CMD16GX4M4C3200C15 XMP caused overclock to fail. Its running at 2133mhz since. What do I do to run this ram faster?