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This is all fantastic advice, thank you! My brain always said that making the rad the intake didn't make sense because you're basically pulling in heat from the get-go but what you're saying makes a lot of sense. I have 3 LL 120mm as side intake right now but could easily turn those into exhaust instead. Or maybe swap those into the rad to keep the RGB and put the AIO's fans onto the exhaust. Gt a but of planning to do. Thanks again! 😊

OK, so you bring up a good point there. That CPU temperature reading in iCUE, is that the coolant or the CPU itself? If it's the coolant, that makes way more sense because my CPU usually is 15-20 degrees hotter when read through HWINFO (it's a 5800X so it's a warm boy, though I don't overclock it.) I have a Lian Li O11 Dynamic case, which I love, save for the stupid decision they made to have it support two power supplies (seriously, why?!) at the expense of having a standard size place to put a rear case fan. So all the exhaust is going through the rad and since I have a 3080, the case can get mighty toasty when I'm gaming or rendering video. I looked at putting exhaust fans on the bottom of the case but because of where some of my motherboard's connectors are, they can't fit over the screw holes because they run into the cables. After letting the fans run with the PWM configuration for a while, the average temp on that readout is not 35-37. So a big improvement, if not still ideal. If the system is idle though, that should drop further. I definitely welcome any ideas to add more exhaust to this system but I'm at a bit of a loss because of the reasons above. Thank you again! 🙂

Hunh. So, I tried 70% fixed PWM and the attached is what I get. So, that seems to work. I mean, not really a big deal leaving it that way since I just want a fixed RPM but I'm curious what changed to make the actual set RPM value not work, given that it's worked for 2 years. Curious if that's a bug or something else. Thanks for the help!

Hey all. I have an H150i Pro AIO that I am managing (among other things) with iCue (at v4.20.169 at time of writing.) I normally run the fans on the cooler at 1,150RPM fixed, enough to keep the case well exhausted of heat, while also not being noisy. It's worked well for over 2 years now but recently, I noticed components running hotter and it seems that iCUE is not respecting my chosen speed anymore. If you look at the attached screenshot, you'll see what I mean. Deleting and recreating the profile didn't help. More perplexingly, the other stock profiles like Extreme and Zero RPM, work fine when I switch to those. It just doesn't want to respect my custom, flat RPM that I've set. Anyone else run into this and manage to fix it? I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanks!

Hey all. I have an H150i Pro, Vengeance RGB Pro and 3x120mm LL fans (though a Lighting Node Pro), all being controlled by iCUE. I also have a LG UltraGear 27GL850-B displays running through a Gigabyte AORUS MASTER 3080. Recently, I've experienced a frustrating problem where when I wake my monitors from sleep, my system will frequently freeze. The machine actually appears to still be running (I'll see the HDD LED flash for instance) but I get a frozen image on all the displays and have to force shut down the machine. This started around the time I got my third monitor because it has different firmware that insists on "blinking" the DisplayPort connection when it wakes up, something the other two don't do. I also found that rolling back to an older NVIDIA driver made the issue happen far less often so I assumed it was their fault. Not so much. I noticed one day that when the system froze, all my LEDs froze too. After some testing, I noticed that this issue happens FAR less (as in like, 90% less), when iCUE isn't running. If I leave it running in the system tray, the issue is almost guaranteed to happen. Closing it doesn't remove the issue but it becomes much more rare. I'm running v4.14.179 of the software, the most current as I write this. I don't know if iCUE is directly to blame for this but it seems to be a significant contributing factor. However, I couldn't find anyone having the issue this particular way, nor do I have any idea what to do about it. I do have an ASUS motherboard and some have said that conflicts between AURA/Armory Crate can cause this behaviour but I don't have either of those tools installed. The motherboard's RGB is disabled in the BIOS. Anyone have any ideas here? I appreciate any help. Thanks!

This is exactly the information I was looking for! Thank you! :)

Hey all. Forgive me if this comes across as a noob question here but I couldn't find an answer. I have an H150i Pro that's being controlled by iCUE. Is there any way to manually control the fan RPM. On the Quiet profile, I don't feel like it's venting enough heat but on Balanced, the fans are too loud. I'd like to manually set a middle ground between the two profiles but can't find a way to do that. Is there? Thanks!

Perfect, that answers my issue! Thank you very much.

Hi again. Apologies but I've seen that thread before and re-read it just now but I'm still confused here. So, to control both the fan speeds and the RGB, I would not use the JCORSAIR header, instead doing something like this: H150i goes to USB2 port - Can be controlled in iCUE. LNP goes to USB2 port, Fan Hub goes into LNP, all LL fans go into Fan Hub - RGB and fans can be controlled in iCUE. Based on reading the sticky post, I think that's what I'd need to do. Can you confirm I've got this right? Thank you again!

Thank you for that, very helpful! So just so I'm clear, to be able to control both the RGB and the fan speeds for the LLs, I would plug the Fan Hub into the motherboard JCORSAIR connector, plug the fan speed lines into that and then plug the RGB lines into the Lighting Node Pro? That seems to be what the manual indicates but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks again!

Hi all. I've been racking my brain on this and can't find a clear explanation anywhere, either on Corsair's site, MSI's site or searching these forums so I hope someone can clarify for me. If this is a redundant thread, I apologize, feel free to point me to the existing one. I am planning a new build. The relevant parts are that I'm building with an MSI X570 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard, an H150i and I also bought a 3 pack of LL 120mm RGB fans that come with a Lighting Node Pro and Fan Hub packaged in with them. My objective is simple (in theory): I want to be able to control the fan curves on the H150i and the LL fans and also control the RGB on the fans from the iCUE software or MSI Dragon Center. Obviously, a Commander Pro can do this. However, this particular motherboard has a JCORSAIR1 connector on the board, which if I'm interpreting page 42 of the manual correctly, looks like it will allow me to just use the existing Fan Hub and Lighting Node Pro and achieve the same things. The H150i I'm getting is not the RGB version so I believe I can control the fans curves on that by just plugging it straight into the motherboard's CPU fan header. Am I correct in this or if I want to be able to control all the fans and the RGB through either iCUE or MSI Dragon Center, would I still need a Commander Pro? Is there any particular advantage having a Commander Pro would add in this scenario? Thanks all!