So I discovered this past Friday morning that my system had shut itself down. Something that happens from time to time here in the south when we have a random thunderstorm and we get a quick blink of the lights. Only we didn't have a thunderstorm overnight on Thursday night into Friday. So I sit down to do some random stuff and hit the power button to reboot and I get a new screen on my monitor that says to check the CPU fan and reset if needed. I think that's weird but check it anyway and then hit OK and move on. About 5 seconds later my system reboots and I get a Windows error screen on restart. Again I go "weird" so I hit OK and move on....typical PC dude stuff but now my spidey sense are tweaking that something is wrong. I just built this rig with a new I7-13700K an added more RAM and a new RTX 3060TI video card so I am now really hoping the merde hasn't hit the ventilator. Again I get a reboot about 20-30 seconds after logging into my session and now I am super geeked out. Now I get another new screen and it says to shut down and check the CPU fan because your temps are too high....WTF I think to myself; this is a less than 4 month old CPU cooler; sure it was missing some cable but dude it plugged into my motherboard and has been working. Surely it isn't dead Corsair makes good stuff...right.
Well short answer is NOthe H60x "Elite"; is an "Elite" pile of freaking dog ****. I didn't read the forums here because I was standing in the store and needed/wanted a new CPU cooling option and wanted it to work with iCUE; I know I like mental pain and anguish. Also it was right around $60 and I didn't want to spend $150+ on yet another cooling setup and hear it from my wife. The old adage applies directly with this POS H60x...buy once, cry once but dang sure don't buy this POS.
I'm not even going to RMA the POS because it's apparently not even worth the time or benefit of Corsair support to acknowledge that the H60x is hasn't even deigned it worth their time in the last 36 hours to even acknowledge the support request. I went to Best Buy this morning and bought another Corsair product that I know works every time all the time in the H100i Elite LCD cooler. So I then spent a total of 5 hours moving fans, rerouting wires, temp sensors, cables for USB connections, etc... to install a product I should have bought to begin with instead of buying a lower cost Corsair CPU cooling option.
Now I just have to go back inside and disconnect the Commander XT or the Commander Pro that I have had in this case since the beginning.