This Changes RGB Forever - Corsair CES 2019
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,272 words · ~6 min read
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thanks to Corsair for sponsoring our trip to ces 2019 the Corsair one is
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their new super powerful water cooled gaming and or workstation system you can
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check it out at the link below so Corsair is no stranger to launching
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new RGB products at trade shows but this time really i swear it's actually
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different so this isn't just more RGB
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leds with more animation patterns or
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anything like that no okay actually that's exactly what it is but i swear
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it's different like get over here so this right here is a demo of what
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Corsair has been working with with a company called primax and they're
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calling it capelix and what it essentially is is a method of mounting
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leds and not like not like this entire surface mount like blocky square white
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thing but actually the diode itself just the little dot in the middle that
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actually emits the light mounting leds directly to a pcb and this is important
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for a number of reasons it increases power efficiency which in turn can
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actually increase the maximum brightness of the leds and it dramatically
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increases their density so in the past if they wanted to do let's say an RGB
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memory module they would have been stuck with like basically this kind of spacing
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there's only so much granularity you can get to the animations that you can build
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into the product well now they can achieve density of like
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i mean what do you what even is this this is like a hundred leds or 80 leds
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looks like a hundred and it's like under my pinky and i have i have very
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small hands folks very very small fingers uh so
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right now there's only one product that is going to contain this new technology
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and it's their new dominator platinum RGB you can actually see they've got
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like a history of dominator platinum here and they haven't gone that crazy so
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they've only got 12 of these uh capellix
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leds mounted to it but what they're talking about sounds pretty incredible
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because not only can they mount these things to a rigid pcb they can even
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mount them to a flexible pcb so even some of their most RGB out products like
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some of their fans with 16 leds built into them
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i mean this is a whole new level they could put hundreds of leds into a fan
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and do like i mean they could even display something when you think about
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it this is fundamentally a small led
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display it's absolutely incredible now they're going to need some software
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upgrades because at the current time a single channel off of i believe it's
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their node pro controller does that sound right aaron node pro single
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channel 100 leds at a time right now yeah
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they're so a single channel can only support 100 leds which is like
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i'd have to do this so those guys have some work to do to catch up to this but
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this enables all kinds of new possibilities for led lighting you could
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conceivably have a system with thousands or tens of thousands of leds so in a
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nutshell more compact more power efficient or brighter so they could do
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something like a wireless uh backlit keyboard for
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example and just generally more possibilities because they can put them
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anywhere like that look at the difference in profile here
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it's crazy speaking of peripherals they're stepping up their game there as
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well so we've had range issues actually with our dark core RGB
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wireless mouse and our new employee lounge and i was so thrilled to see the
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harpoon RGB wireless so the incredible thing about this is
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twofold number one is the wireless technology that they've built into it so
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Corsair says that with a single device connected to a dongle they've achieved
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500 microseconds so that is about half
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of a millisecond of latency on this thing and with two devices connected
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like if you had a harpoon RGB wireless and then a future keyboard that
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presumably they're working on you could get one millisecond on each and that's
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with a micro dongle so this is a new technology they're calling slipstream
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and the second really cool thing about it is the price
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so they're not holding back on us and launching this with a hundred and fifty
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dollar mouse they want slipstream freaking everywhere in their lineup and
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they went well uh this mouse is the one that's currently uh most ready for production
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so we're gonna put it in there boom let's go 50 bucks it's super light it's just
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under 100 grams and the range is actually really impressive so it's
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running off of that system over there one of the Corsair one i-140s
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but that's not the crazy thing that's not really that far it's that they're doing
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it at ces so part of their slipstream technology is that they're able to
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straddle two frequencies at a time for a very short period and decide on which
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one is the best in order to maintain that latency and showing it off working
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at a trade show like ces without any hitching is either brave or foolish so
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far it's actually been working really well for most of our time with it so i'm
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leaning towards brave but i mean there's still plenty of time for
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them to regret this it's just looking pretty darn good at the moment they're
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boasting 30 hours of battery life using slipstream or up to 60 using bluetooth
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le although of course there is a latency disadvantage there and it comes with a
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little compartment on the bottom for the dongle as well as a switch so you can go
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between 2.4 gigahertz slipstream and bluetooth this puppy is available uh hey
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hey harry when's the harpoon available
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now okay you can buy it today so you can go check
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it out at the link in the video description
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speaking of the link in the video description this video is brought to you by the Corsair one the lineup goes all
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the way from the i-140 which has an rtx 2080 and an eight core processor all the
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way up to the i-180 pro which is really closer to workstation than it is to game
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ring with 12 cores uh 32 gigs of RAM an
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rtx 2080 ti a 750 watt power supply and
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this is all in the same slim form factor as the original Corsair one so you can
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check that out at the link in the video description thanks to Corsair for sponsoring this video and thanks to you
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guys for watching don't miss any of our ces content we will see you guys at the
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next move oh by the way the elgato guys here at Corsair were going to be super
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sad if i didn't mention their key light so you can control it so check this out
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you can adjust color temperature and brightness and stuff with your stream
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deck it's like wi-fi connected if you're a streamer it's pretty sick if you're
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not a streamer then maybe you just really like having like a
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light um on your desk but that's cool too