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