What’s Corsair iCUE LINK?
Corsair revealed iCUE LINK again in Mightand it modifications the best way we take into consideration PC cable administration. iCUE LINK is a Good Parts Ecosystem, and it’s designed to remove many of the cable litter that’s related to PCs with a lot of followers, a lot of ARGB lights, and different equipment. How? Although customized energy/knowledge connectors, and a neat daisy-chain characteristic.
Let’s have a look at one instance. Most RGB illuminated followers have two cables. These cables are their energy cable and their RGB management cable. iCUE LINK condenses this down to at least one customized cable, after which provides a neat daisy-chain characteristic. This enables as much as seven followers to be related although a single cable chain. Sure, a scenario that when required 14 separate cables can no use a single cable chain. That’s rather a lot fewer cables to handle, and rather a lot much less cable mess to work by means of when it’s time to improve.
iCUE LINK – The Construct
We needed to present Corsair’s iCUE LINK ecosystem a correct evaluation, and that meant that we wanted to construct a full system to showcase its capabilities. We additionally wanted to do that to get a really feel for the way it modifications the PC constructing course of. At OC3D, we’re effectively used to constructing PCs with a multitude or RGB cable litter to handle, so something that makes that course of simpler can be welcome.
Past this. We needed to see what the iCUE LINK improve course of is like. That’s why we waited for Corsair’s iCUE LINK H150i LCD improve package. This improve required us to re-manage a few of our iCUE LINK cables. We needed to know if this is able to be a simple or tedious course of. Fortunately it was the previous.
System Specs
For this method, we determined to principally utilise white elements kind Corsair and Gigabyte. This included Corsair’s white 5000T chassis, Gigabyte’s white AORUS Z790 PRO X motherboard, and a white RTX 4080 Imaginative and prescient graphics card. Total, I believe we now have created an ideal trying system right here. Under is our elements checklist, and a few buying hyperlinks if you wish to see how a lot they value, or need to construct an identical system your self.
CPU – Intel i7-14700K
CPU Cooler – Corsair H150i iCUE LINK
CPU Cooler LCD Improve – Corsair iCUE LINK LCD Display
Case – Corsair 5000T RGB
Motherboard – Gigabyte AORUS Z790 PRO X
Reminiscence – Corsair DOMINATOR TITANIUM DDR5-6600
Followers – Corsair iCue Hyperlink QX120 Starter Pack + Single Pack
Energy Provide – Corsair RM1200x Shift PSU
PSU Cable Improve Package – Corsair Professional PSU Cable Package Sort 5Â
Graphics Card – Gigabyte RTX 4080 VisionÂ
iCUE LINK Cable Administration
For this method, we utilise Corsiar’s RM1200X SHIFT energy provide. This PSU is uncommon, because it has its cables popping out of the aspect of the unit. This design makes altering your cables a neater course of. It additionally offers us some area the place PSU cables usually come out. That is the place we determined to position Corsair’s iCUE LINK controller.
From this controller, we now have two cables that come out to energy our total system’s fan and RGB setup. One cable controls three followers, and the opposite controls 4 followers and the upgraded LCD display on our H150i CPU liquid cooler.
