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24 minutes ago, podkall said:

I get your point, but you can control all the lighting, with just one program,

 

because all the fans will connect to same ARGB header on the motherboard, or two, but MB can just send same signal through both, it's not rocket science.

OP stated they already have corsair ram, so they would be running ICUE already. are we talking about fan controllers that integrate into ICUE? or we going with another software like OpenRGB to tie it all together in which case yea it would be all 1 program, agreed.

also the snarky comment is just unnecessary 

Is corsair iCue worth the money?

 

Ok so, for my build coming up I need to select fans and a radiator for a whitefishtank build so I already got corsair dominator ddr5 ram and they got great rgb so what is your guys opinion on Icue as I ready to spend bucks an aesthetics.

 

Is it overpriced slop?

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Short answer? No.

 

Long answer? Fuck no that abysmall pain in the ass cunt piece of shit garbage software deserves to burn in hell.

 

Yes I am frustrated by it as I have to build systems with these all the time and most come in again because icue broke again for some dumb reason.

 

Corsair has TANKED in quality since going public and icue has gone from being somewhat functional but not great in 2018 to just terrible these days.

 

They now have some forced integration with openrgb due to the sheer amount of frustration from users but well its not officially supported. Heaps better tho

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I've really not been a fan of any RGB software, but I'd always try to unify it all inside at least one. so i don't need to have 5 programs to set the lighting in my pc. ever since electricity prices spiked during COVID, I've actually disabled the lights & just never turned it on again. realized at least for the moment I don't have any need for fancy blinking lights.

 

from what I've used of ICUE, its fine never had any big issues. except getting my ASUS 3070 gpu integrated so i could control the lights, that was quite tedious. if you already control some lights with ICUE, then id just focus on getting products for that. for simplicity sake, but I might just be lazy in that regard.

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well that depends,

 

iCue is proprietary connection, meaning only iCue products will be compatible,

 

the benefit of iCue is that it combines power and RGB control into one wire,

 

you need an iCue controller, that connects bunch of wires, and from there single cable connects to all fans, and daisy chains through the iCue fans,

 

the price gets higher the more iCue things you have and don't have, for example if you have few non-iCue fans, then you either need to connect those to regular MB headers, or buy another Corsair controller that converts  power and RGB connectors into iCue connector.

 

  • At that point though you could just use regular fans
  • Some ARGB are daisy-chainable, they come with extra connectors that make the daisy chain and do almost the same thing as iCue
  • regular fan controllers exist, though you could even use fan splitters
  • daisy chained regular fans don't increase the amount of connectors so you don't need more MB connections, and if you daisy chain like 3 and 3 you could still use one fan splitter if your MB has only 1 port, but most "gaming" or mid-higher end motherboards, most of them, have more than 1 connection, at least 2 ARGB connections, and 3+ fan connections

 

1 minute ago, Razercake said:

I've really not been a fan of any RGB software, but I'd always try to unify it all inside at least one. so i don't need to have 5 programs to set the lighting in my pc. ever since electricity prices spiked during COVID, I've actually disabled the lights & just never turned it on again. realized at least for the moment I don't have any need for fancy blinking lights.

 

from what I've used of ICUE, its fine never had any big issues. except getting my ASUS 3070 gpu integrated so i could control the lights, that was quite tedious. if you already control some lights with ICUE, then id just focus on getting products for that. for simplicity sake, but I might just be lazy in that regard.

well, regular fans don't need 5 softwares either, just one that controls the RGB, and it sends the signal through MB to the fans

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1 minute ago, podkall said:

well, regular fans don't need 5 softwares either, just one that controls the RGB, and it sends the signal through MB to the fans

We still have a LONG while till companies realize "Hey maybe making lighting a pain in the ass to control is bad for our more expensive products and we should instead make a 1 for all program that doesnt suck" but knowing them they'd also lock the *Choose color* or specific colors (most of the them that arent RGB) behind a paywall (possibly a subscription if they feel extra greedy)

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1 minute ago, Millios said:

We still have a LONG while till companies realize "Hey maybe making lighting a pain in the ass to control is bad for our more expensive products and we should instead make a 1 for all program that doesnt suck" but knowing them they'd also lock the *Choose color* or specific colors (most of the them that arent RGB) behind a paywall (possibly a subscription if they feel extra greedy)

I get it:

 

"Are you tired of using ARGB and MB fan connectors and daisy chaining those pesky fans?"

 

"Introducing iCue, the solution, just connect motherboard, power and one more cable to the controller that you may need to buy, and you're good to go, you also need to buy iCue cables or starter kits separately, as some if not all iCue products come without the connection wires"

 

"isn't that much easier and less chaotic?"

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1 minute ago, podkall said:

well, regular fans don't need 5 softwares either, just one that controls the RGB, and it sends the signal through MB to the fans

No, but my point. if it wasn't clear, is I don't like having to use multiple programs to control the lighting & sync it up. I much prefer everything is controlled in one unified space. same reason I have Home Assistant so its all unified in 1 place.

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1 minute ago, podkall said:

I get it:

 

"Are you tired of using ARGB and MB fan connectors and daisy chaining those pesky fans?"

 

"Introducing iCue, the solution, just connect motherboard, power and one more cable to the controller that you may need to buy, and you're good to go, you also need to buy iCue cables or starter kits separately, as some if not all iCue products come without the connection wires"

 

"isn't that much easier and less chaotic?"

*said in the classic 50s radio announcer voice*

Then like its a medicine commercial they zoom by that you need a 9.99 subscription and that each fan and controller is now sold seperately instead of selling packs

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icue is free to download and its fairly basic and apparently a pretty big resource hog if used with many components...

 

i use it for my corsair psu only and its fairly lightweight but i wouldn't want to use it for more.

 

if i were you i would look for components that are compatible with open source software like openRGB and fancontrol.

 

 

 

 

 

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Lively Wallpaper 

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16 minutes ago, Razercake said:

No, but my point. if it wasn't clear, is I don't like having to use multiple programs to control the lighting & sync it up. I much prefer everything is controlled in one unified space. same reason I have Home Assistant so its all unified in 1 place.

I get your point, but you can control all the lighting, with just one program,

 

because all the fans will connect to same ARGB header on the motherboard, or two, but MB can just send same signal through both, it's not rocket science.

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I avoid anything with the Corsair name on it.

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24 minutes ago, podkall said:

I get your point, but you can control all the lighting, with just one program,

 

because all the fans will connect to same ARGB header on the motherboard, or two, but MB can just send same signal through both, it's not rocket science.

OP stated they already have corsair ram, so they would be running ICUE already. are we talking about fan controllers that integrate into ICUE? or we going with another software like OpenRGB to tie it all together in which case yea it would be all 1 program, agreed.

also the snarky comment is just unnecessary 

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1 hour ago, Razercake said:

OP stated they already have corsair ram, so they would be running ICUE already. are we talking about fan controllers that integrate into ICUE? or we going with another software like OpenRGB to tie it all together in which case yea it would be all 1 program, agreed.

also the snarky comment is just unnecessary 

I didn't mean to sound snarky, RAM could be any brand, you can just control the ram RGB with whatever RGB software too, I think.

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TBH, from years and years of RGB frustration, just find stuff will work with Signal RGB and buy that stuff. Corsair stuff will work with OpenRGB and Signal RGB to a point, but I have had so many weird issues with the Capellix 360mm AIO, from pump lights dying, fan lights stuck on pink, even just using the icue software, I might just go with an entirely different brand next time.

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1 minute ago, podkall said:

I didn't mean to sound snarky, RAM could be any brand, you can just control the ram RGB with whatever RGB software too, I think.

Yes, I have done so many combinations of hardware and software for RGB, and sometimes it works ok using more than one. But then randomly it'll get all messed up one day for no reason and it takes forever to fix it. Eventually I just sold the RAM I had and got some XPG sticks and those work great with Signal and couldn't be happier.

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26 minutes ago, Absentia13 said:

Yes, I have done so many combinations of hardware and software for RGB, and sometimes it works ok using more than one. But then randomly it'll get all messed up one day for no reason and it takes forever to fix it. Eventually I just sold the RAM I had and got some XPG sticks and those work great with Signal and couldn't be happier.

the problem with that is a lot (probably the majority) of "mah games stuttering!!!" comes from shitty rgb softwares like nzxt icue msicenter asuswhatevertheycalltheirshitsolution etc etc etc, often a combination of all of the above... hence if you can avoid it then don't go for that proprietary manufacturer stuff...

The direction tells you... the direction. 

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Softwares used:

Corsair Link (Anime Edition) 

MSI Afterburner 

OpenRGB

Lively Wallpaper 

OBS Studio

Shutter Encoder

Avidemux

FSResizer

Audacity 

VLC

WMP

GIMP

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15 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

the problem with that is a lot (probably the majority) of "mah games stuttering!!!" comes from shitty rgb softwares like nzxt icue msicenter asuswhatevertheycalltheirshitsolution etc etc etc, often a combination of all of the above... hence if you can avoid it then don't go for that proprietary manufacturer stuff...

I never really had any issues like that, but with all the people here saying how bad it is. I must be one of the lucky few 😅

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56 minutes ago, Razercake said:

I never really had any issues like that, but with all the people here saying how bad it is. I must be one of the lucky few 😅

the thing about PCs, sometimes things work, and sometimes they don't, and all you need is slightly different config or something,

 

those people stuttering on RGB software could be using a weak CPU that's just being loaded +1 on the background apps running, while running game, and if they load things like music, Discord, etc. on top of that, the result could be stutters or some performance inconsistency.

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3 hours ago, podkall said:

the thing about PCs, sometimes things work, and sometimes they don't, and all you need is slightly different config or something,

 

those people stuttering on RGB software could be using a weak CPU that's just being loaded +1 on the background apps running, while running game, and if they load things like music, Discord, etc. on top of that, the result could be stutters or some performance inconsistency.

i think its also how much they're actually in use, like i said my icue is just fine, but all i have is my psu readouts and psu fan speed, it barely uses 1% cpu... i see all the other stuff running but it all uses 0% of anything so i assume if there's more going on there could be some optimization issues too, if they all gonna use 1-2% cpu each, its gonna add up (even ram)

 

or its just flat out bad like nzxt cam or msicenter... cam *always* had these issues with memory leakage and "phoning home"... nzxt even acknowledges it saying they'll fix it "next time" but they never do (to my knowledge) 

 

so yeah its fine if someone has no issues, thing is lots of people do and its easily avoidable. 

The direction tells you... the direction. 

-Scott Manley, 2021

 

Softwares used:

Corsair Link (Anime Edition) 

MSI Afterburner 

OpenRGB

Lively Wallpaper 

OBS Studio

Shutter Encoder

Avidemux

FSResizer

Audacity 

VLC

WMP

GIMP

HWiNFO64

Paint

3D Paint

GitHub Desktop 

Superposition 

Prime95

Aida64

GPUZ

CPUZ

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icue is trash. i have it on my laptop and desktop. no clue one day on my laptop it just stopped working, won't load at all guess give a very long error that meant nothing. lived with it for a few month until i ended up with the same problem on desktop. try to uninstall nope error not founded, tried to reinstall didn't work error. after some googling corsair had a full guide on how to and where to delete all the folder before a reinstalling. i still use it cause im too lazy and cheap to buy new mouses and keyboard

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