tamag901

How’s the sound over Bluetooth? As good as over Slipstream or USB?

Thanks @Corsair Albert. Are the XTs using the same speaker driver as the SE, or have there been some improvements to that as well?

This looks great. I had to return my original Virtuoso because of the crazy clamping pressure. Does the XT have any changes to padding/clamping? Also, does the Bluetooth connectivity work with 4.0 devices?

Upgrade from 3.x to 4.x went smoothly but now widgets on my Nexus are stuck with a permanent black background. On 3.x I could turn off the background toggle and have text overlaid over the animated GIF - now these black rectangles are covering it up. Turning the background switch on and off does nothing now. Is this a bug @Corsair?

You could set up macros instead of using F13-24 directly. For example, you could bind something longer like Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1 to slot 1 on hotbar 4. Then, set up a macro so that F13 on the mouse triggers the keybind you set up in the game. Don't forget to add a very small delay (20ms) between each macro step - I find that the macro misbehaves in FFXIV sometimes without this. I don't know how the game processes input, but you might have to raise the delay if you're playing at a lower framerate. I have the G1-G6 macro keys bound to various hotbar actions that I need to hit quickly (like Second Wind).

I think I've got my OC settings right on the edge of stable - 1.30v and Mode 4 LLC. Any lower and OCCT fails. I just remounted and dropped my temps by quite a bit actually - I'm now hovering in the 70C range when running the CPU-Z stress instead of slamming straight into 80s. I grabbed a shot of the IHS right after I removed the pump head, it looks like the thermal paste hadn't spread evenly?

I'll try re-mounting my cooler tonight and see if there's any improvement. I may have gone a bit heavy on my application of XTM50 when I used the applicator. Apart from a better mount, is there any other way to reduce the differential? Better thermal paste? 160W doesn't seem like a lot for a H100i Platinum to dissipate and it feels like a waste if its the CPU at fault here.

Small update - I did some tweaking around with voltages in BIOS and have set it to manual. I'm now doing 1.31v and Mode 4 LLC @5.1GHz stably. With this setup HWInfo reports 1.29 vCore under load but the CPU still slams into the 80+C mark a few seconds after starting the test.

Hi, My LLC is currently set to Automatic - I was getting random crashes when trying out anything from Mode 3-8. Setting this back to Auto fixed the crashing so I believe this is either Mode 1 or 2. My voltage is currently set to Adaptive + Offset mode in BIOS, with the offset at +0.025. Here's a screenshot of the motherboard section in HWInfo while running CPU-Z stress - it says the Vcore is 1.356v.

Is a +55-60C difference between the CPU package temp and coolant temp normal? Got this when running the CPU-Z stress test. When starting the test, the CPU instantly shoots up to 80-85C, with coolant in the 25C range. The coolant temp does rise by about 0.1C every 2-3 seconds, so there is thermal transfer. Once the coolant hits 32C, the CPU is at 100C and thermal throttling. My chip is a i7-10700K overclocked to 5.1GHz @ 1.350v. I'm using XTM50 thermal paste that I applied using the included applicator. I've attached a screenshot of the temps from iCUE/HWMonitor.

I'm inclined to just leave it be at this point - I'm sticking to using Video Lighting in some games, like MMOs, where it looks fantastic in raids and a drop of a few FPS (like from 160 to 155) doesn't really matter. If I really need to squeeze out a few extra FPS like in Cyberpunk I just set them to off in the game's CUE profile. Reckon I've got the hardware to keep Video Lighting on in like 90% of the things I play without noticing an impact unless I'm staring at the FPS meter and taking notes. I treat it as another graphical quality setting.

Can confirm I lost a bunch of points in 3DMark with Video Lighting. Without: 13.7k points, with 14.1k for GPU and 12k for CPU With: 11.9k points, with 11.9k for GPU and 11.7k for CPU So also lost about 2k points with Video Lighting active.

Anecdotal, but I just installed an H100i Platinum SE (which also has the Coolit pump). I have it set to Extreme pump, Quiet fans and the pump isn't audible outside the case. I can only hear a very slight hum if I stick my head in the case and put my ear up to the pump head.

I just tried that out in a couple games - it still says "G-Sync On" when video lighting is (obviously) enabled. My monitor's OSD also says that it is on and I can see that it is changing its refresh rate according to the FPS in game.

Coming over from https://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1071306#post1071306 I don't seem to get any conflict between Video Lighting and G-Sync - I can have both enabled and they run well together. I've got an RTX 3070 and Asus monitor if that helps, and run all games in Exclusive Fullscreen. I suppose this is fair enough, since it has to use a few CPU cycles to sample the display. I think the effect is worse in CPU intensive games - HZD uses 60-70% of the CPU in open areas and I feel that is impacted the most (from ~110FPS to ~90FPS and stuttering). I tried Wolfenstein Young Blood and the effect is much less apparent there - I went from ~160FPS to about ~155FPS in open areas. In Nier: Automata there's no difference at all, but that game is locked to 60FPS. I couldn't tell a difference in The Outer Worlds either, even with that game running at 100FPS. I also tested runs in Unigine Valley but having Video Lighting did not seem to affect my score at all. Will give 3DMark a go soon to see if it does anything.