Jump to content

BlaiseP

Members
  • Posts

    489
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    16

BlaiseP last won the day on March 16

BlaiseP had the most liked content!

Reputation

90 Excellent

About BlaiseP

  • Birthday 03/07/1962

Converted

  • Occupation
    Retired

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

  1. The Phanteks Glacier D120's are passive distro-plates, I still use Singularity Computers Protium D150 pump/res combos. I haven't dabbled with distro-plates that include a pump so I can't comment on performance compared to traditional pump/res combos. Truthfully, I only use the distro-plates because it makes my runs neater. I used to have a Phanteks Glacier D140 (again, passive) distro-plate in a Phanteks Enthoo 719 case that allowed me to run the CPU and GPUs in parallel-loop mode rather than serial-loop mode, but I no longer use that case. Parallel vs. Serial loops – that's a debate best saved for another day!
  2. @c-attack the O11D XL has 28 LEDs. @TTonk81, here's how I setup the case LEDs for ICUE control as an example for you... I have the aforementioned O11D XL with a daisy-chained Phanteks Glacier D120 distro-plate (10 LEDs), so 38 LEDs in total. It's setup in ICUE as 4 x LED strips on the Commander Pro's LED port (using a PirateDog Tech RGB adapter) with a custom "Quick Lighting Zone" set to 38 LEDs that I use when defining the lighting layers. Going to change out the Phanteks distro-plates (I have 2 x O11D XLs identically plumbed) for EK Quantum Volume FLT 120 D-RGB flat reservoirs this weekend that have I believe, 6 or 7 LEDs (will have to check) so I will have to drop my custom "Quick Lighting Zone" to 35 LEDs.
  3. I bet a lot more people use Facebook/Instagram or Tic Tok without a second thought to personal data privacy and specifically with these apps where you are the product. In the case of some of these social media apps, even if you specifically opt out of certain data collection activities, the app ignores your selection and harvests it anyway. @Youknowit - I think you're putting too much faith into what Microsoft's "Dynamic Lighting" is or might become. Microsoft's foray into RGB is only ever expected to provide a very basic offering without the whizz-bang sophistication of ICUE, Chroma, G-Hub or others currently offer. Besides, ICUE and others do more than simply allow you to craft RGB effects, they support and provide configuration (macro's, key reassignment, polling rate, DPI, fan curves, etc.) of the underlying vendor hardware. If RGB (and RGB only) is all you want, SignalRGB may be enough assuming it supports your hardware. I haven't the slightest inclination to read WhirlwindFX's EULA/Privacy statements so I'm not aware of their data mining stance or habits. PS. One issue the OP voiced was having to download a behemoth application "just to control four buttons". ICUE moved to a modular application approach starting with version 5 (around April 2023 - 14 months after the OP penned this thread). Now, apart from core functionality, ICUE only loads modules related to the Corsair products you have present in your system.
  4. @Youknowit - give it a break mate! Do you need to keep repeating the same points and throwing aspersions at community members? At this point you're just yelling at clouds; the OP hasn't logged back in since the day he posted this topic over two years ago. Do you use Corsair products or have ever installed ICUE on any of your devices? Rest easy soldier, you have done your "duty" and informed the ignorant masses to reprehensible practices of THE BIG BAD CORPORATION. If this question is so popular, why exhume such a long-buried thread instead of one more recent and therefore more relevant? Helped the OP... really? That's a bit presumptuous of you. You read the magic word - "spyware" and sprang into action with the EULA/telemetry/spyware rhetoric? Seeing as the OP hasn't logged in for over two years sadly, there's a greater chance he may never see your voluminous "words of wisdom" (including the all-seeing, all-powerful big brother WER API) anyway. Many of the users of this forum only come here when they have an issue; that's just human nature. However, in your case it appears you came here simply to preach and argue.
  5. @doverkan69 @c-attack I've used a bottle brush; they can be found in various sizes everywhere and are cheap. I can remember using small ones in school science classes (many decades ago) to clean out test tubes. There are many household products that find their way into cleaning tech because they simply work. We used to clean microwave couplers (communications) with tampons. I use makeup removal pads (along with Isopropyl alcohol) to clean up thermal paste from cold-plates and CPU's.
  6. It doesn't look like high-end tech is going to use less power in the foreseeable future in the Intel/AMD CPU or AMD/NVIDIA GPU arms race. The jury is still out one whether Intel is ready to compete at the high-end of the GPU market. The three PSU's I have in service: HX-1200i, AX-1200i (both are platinum rated) & AX-1600i (titanium rated) but to be fair, I run SLI'ed 180TI's, RTX-3090 & RTX-4090 across the 3 rigs (all water-cooled) that I overclock from time to time. I have one lower wattage PSU that I use for filling and to test leak my water-cooled builds; a SF-450 (gold rated) with a bridged 24-pin (pins 4 & 5) that I got at a silly cheap price just before the COVID lockdowns.
  7. I can see ICUE's CPU package temperature for both of my Intel systems (9900K and 12900K). There has been a bit of an issue reported on these forums with people not having it as an option recently though. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the majority of complaints came from AMD owners. I put a system together with bits I had laying around last week that doesn't show CPU package temperature but does have core temperatures. I didn't worry too much as it was very old tech - X58 m/board with an Intel i7-930 processor running Windows 10. The CPU package temperature wasn't showing in v4 of ICUE for that processor, so I upgraded ICUE to v5 where it still wasn't present. It just put this off as a something dodgy with the CPUID library ICUE uses albeit HWMonitor does which also uses the CPUID SDK. I'm not concerned in this case as I have all six fans controlled by the liquid temperature of the H115i via a PWM controller. Kudos to Corsair though, my lightly used H115i AIO (2016) shows up even with the latest release of ICUE.
  8. I use PirateDog Tech adapters - find them from the link I provided or on his eBay store. I also have some EZE-Fab adapters - available on Amazon.
  9. This is how I do it using a Commander Pro. I choose the "Lighting Setup" as x RGB Strips to approximate (always over) the actual number of LEDs I have connected on the channel. Then under the "Lighting Channel", I set a custom "Quick Lighting Zone" entry which is exactly the number of LEDs I have on that channel and use that when defining my lighting layers. You'll only need to define the custom zone once per channel (the Commander Pro has two) as ICUE saved your custom zone. eg. I have a channel connected to the LEDs of a Lian Li O11D XL case extended with a Phanteks Glacier D120 Distro plate. Case LEDs = 28, Distro plate = 10, total of 38 LEDs, Lighting Channel set to 4 x LED strips (10 each totalling 40 LEDs), Custom "Quick Lighting Zone" defined as 38 LEDs and finally, When adding a Lighting Layer, use the custom Lighting Zone for the exact number of LEDs on the channel. This is only for the software-controlled lighting, the hardware lighting is defined by the Lighting Channel setup. In the above example, 40.
  10. There was a sneaky update to the ICUE plugin to v1.5.220 yet the history on Elgato's Marketplace shows this version was release last November (t wasn't).
  11. And I imagine permissions of the copier, not the subsequent user which may cause problems with modifications. You would need to take ownership of the files under the correct username.
  12. How is it if you do a cold boot? I've found the ASUS plugin requires a cold boot to show my motherboard and GPU on ICUE's front page.
  13. Working well here - two machines albeit the ASUS plugin (for both my Motherboard & GPU) required a cold boot (a warm boot won't suffice) to show up under ICUE devices. This has been this way through multiple versions of ICUE. Kudos to the Stream Deck developers for the sneaky update of the ICUE plugin (now v1.5.220) that fixed a typo for the Power Efficiency of digital Corsair PSU's. It now correctly shows "%" instead of "W" for the sensor unit. There wasn't an update through the Stream Deck app when I checked yesterday yet looking at the history for the plugin in Marketplace, it states 10 Nov 2023 and I have "automatic updates" turned on. Weird?
  14. Exactly. I try to ensure I don't use PWM splitters as they may be problematic with CoPro PWM ports. I run the following for 9 x ML-120 RGB Elite's... Corsair Commander Pro with a 10KΩ thermistor for a hardware (liquid) temperature source 1 PWM port off the Commander Pro Lampton SP105 powered fan controller, 1 PWM port of the Commander Pro for my D5 pump (running at 50% fixed). 2 x Lighting Node Cores (for the RBG)
  15. I tried it out a few days ago after reading about this and the latest ICUE works fine with 3DMark SystemInfo on both of my systems. And to reiterate @KILLER_K - close & kill ICUE when performing benchmarks.
×
×
  • Create New...