Corsair may be the RGB King! - iCue Announcement
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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thanks to Corsair for sponsoring our computex 2018 coverage check out their
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new hs70 gaming headsets at the link below
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it's getting to the point where i don't even know what to say about RGB anymore
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but Corsair has kicked it up yet another notch with what they're calling
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iq a Corsair interface
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they're taking everything that was good about link and q so those were their individual
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softwares for your internal components and your peripherals and they're putting
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them all together as more of like a complete system
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software suite that can monitor your system temperatures and your clock
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speeds it can adjust your RGB animations it can synchronize animations between
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the inside and the outside of your system and they've got it working with a
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whopping 1649
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skus now most of them are Corsair but some of the components do have
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compatibility across platform like these all new vengeance RGB pro dims and they
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are currently working with partners like Gigabyte MSI and ASUS to improve
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intercompatibility across the various RGB ecosystems
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some of the coolest things you can do with iq because it's more than just
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lighting control are setting up profiles
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so say for example when you're at your desktop you can have like a kind of
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mellow color shifty thing going on when you fire up a game you can have full RGB
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circus mode light up and then best of all when you do something like
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launch a movie you can have all of your RGB lighting turn off so that it's not
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distracting in the slightest and because it controls your system fans as well you
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can even have all of your fans either go to a very low RPM for a near silent
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operation or even turn off entirely so
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that nothing interrupts your movie watching experience but don't imagine
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that this kind of customization comes cheap the system that we're looking at
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here in their newly launched 1000d so
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this is a close relative to the concept
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slate that we actually did a dual system build in not that long ago the main
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difference being that it's got flat tempered glass on the front instead of
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curved will cost you well in excess of 1
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000 us dollars this system right here to
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control the 20 Corsair light loop fans which are worth
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800 plus us dollars on their own requires
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four of their commander pro control modules
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wow and that's not even including extras like their RGB strips or their vengeance
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RGB pro memory now if you guys are into RGB memory this is looking like a pretty
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significant advancement so they've got a bunch of the pre-canned animations on
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display here but the main advantage compared to competitors like g-skills
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tridency RGB is that they've got 10 leds
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per module which at this time cannot be individually adjusted within the
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software but on a hardware level are individually addressable so you can do
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all kinds of complex animations like this one that's like an RGB rotating
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clock thing and their software configuration which is more advanced
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than stuff we've seen in the past including the ability to depending on
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your motherboard layout adjust things like which dim is in which slot and
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which orientation is each dimm in so some motherboards have the dimms kind of
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all going this way and then some have them like this way on either side of the
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CPU socket so this allows us to just hit one button here to reverse the direction
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and now all of a sudden our animation is running in the same direction on each
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dim instead of being in opposite directions this video like many others
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here computex 2018 is brought to you by Corsair's hs70 it's their new wireless
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headset that features comfy cushiony earcups a removable microphone and up to
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16 hours of wireless battery life which
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i guess oh it's playing in my ears does it have
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it's got a volume control knob on the back what am i listening to
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these guys know how to do a demo you got that music playing in there
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all right so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our computex 2018
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coverage by getting subscribed we will see you at the next booth
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