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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.