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jvickers · May 21, 2025

How I wish my iCUE software would consistently recognize my iCUE H60i RGB Pro XT liquid cooler! All the lighting on the inside of my case would be purple.

Dru2 · May 21, 2025

jvickers said:
How I wish my iCUE software would consistently recognize my iCUE H60i RGB Pro XT liquid cooler! All the lighting on the inside of my case would be purple.

Care to clarify? If you want the colors to stick, you have to enable that feature. Click on a device, click Lighting effects, and enable Device Memory Mode. This will lock in those colors, even if you disable iCUE.....

If you have a purple icon over a device, those colors are locked.

jvickers · May 21, 2025

Dru2 said:
Care to clarify? If you want the colors to stick, you have to enable that feature. Click on a device, click Lighting effects, and enable Device Memory Mode. This will lock in those colors, even if you disable iCUE.....

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If you have a purple icon over a device, those colors are locked.

My iCUE software recognizes my RAM and Corsair keyboard, but it won't recognize my iCUE cooler. It used to, but it stopped. I had enabled device memory mode to lock the colors, but when my iCUE software stopped recognizing the cooler, it reverted back to RGB. The RAM and keyboard are set to locked as well and are still purple. I believe I'll have to uninstall and reinstall the iCUE software. What a nuisance.

EDIT:
Fixed it. I ran an iCUE repair. The only issue is that my CPU cooler isn't really purple despite having the same color code as the other hardware. Oh well. At least it's not strobing RGB anymore!

Dru2 · May 21, 2025

jvickers said:
My iCUE software recognizes my RAM and Corsair keyboard, but it won't recognize my iCUE cooler. It used to, but it stopped. I had enabled device memory mode to lock the colors, but when my iCUE software stopped recognizing the cooler, it reverted back to RGB. The RAM and keyboard are set to locked as well and are still purple. I believe I'll have to uninstall and reinstall the iCUE software. What a nuisance.

You have a double post so you might want to delete one (I quoted the first one).

Anyway, yeah, that sounds like something weird is going on there. The only Corsair products I use are memory, fans, AIO. None of their RGB peripherals. In fact, I don't use any RGB peripherals.

jvickers · May 21, 2025

Dru2 said:
You have a double post so you might want to delete one (I quoted the first one).

Anyway, yeah, that sounds like something weird is going on there. The only Corsair products I use are memory, fans, AIO. None of their RGB peripherals. In fact, I don't use any RGB peripherals.

Actually, the second is a follow-up to my post with a quote. I guess I can edit the original.

Dru2 · May 21, 2025

jvickers said:
Actually, the second is a follow-up to my post with a quote. I guess I can edit the original.

Ah, I missed that.

jvickers said:
EDIT:
Fixed it. I ran an iCUE repair. The only issue is that my CPU cooler isn't really purple despite having the same color code as the other hardware. Oh well. At least it's not strobing RGB anymore!

Anyway, to keep colors consistent I use a color hex so I know the colors match between devices; but I also use both the iCUE software for my Corsair products and Gigabyte's RGB Fusion software for my board and items connected to it.

The hexadecimal color #9D00FF, known as purple, has RGB values of R:157 G:0, B:255 and CMYK values of C:0.38 M:1, Y:0, K:0. That said, if one device isn't capable of displaying that shade, while another is, yeah, you'll get different shades between the two RGB devices.

When I installed my GPU and connected the RGB cable to the board, the color color was immediately set to blue

Scannerman · May 21, 2025

No disrespect intended. I'm sorry you found my comments offensive. I think some credit should be given to those who build systems without the bling just as much as those who do not and many of those can be just as expensive if not more expensive to build than RGB rigs. I don't think "traditionalists" should be ostracized for this either. Evidently, you didn't catch my comments on "hot boxes" and the fact that I stated that I also have some "aquariums" as well. I think that if I'm equally prepared to "criticize" myself for the same folks should be able to deal with it in good humour. I apologize for hurting your feelings.

Dru2 · May 21, 2025

Scannerman said:
think some credit should be given to those who build systems without the bling

You're making excuses. The major difference is we (me) don't make disrespectful snarky comments about those systems. Nor are we required to give homage to them when we post our "bling" systems.

I think we can move forward here and stick to the thread's intent.... Show us your PC/Setup

Peace

colinp · May 21, 2025

rawintellect said:
I take the interwebs with a grain of salt. I've been creeping around the internet since before there was an internet. Just 300 baud coupler modems, sysops and BBS systems. Even then there were confrontations on those BBS systems. The first multi chat room I was in circa 1990 had the same 20 users bickering over and over again.

I've become numb to it I guess. My ignore button has a hair trigger.

Oh yes, the good ol' days. Many a fiery night on alt.linux (or something to that extent). You quickly developed a very thick skin, and yes, the ignore button is a godsend.

Scannerman · May 21, 2025

colinp said:
Oh yes, the good ol' days. Many a fiery night on alt.linux (or something to that extent). You quickly developed a very thick skin, and yes, the ignore button is a godsend.

Yeah, those boys can be harsh. Some folks just have no sense of humour.

jvickers · May 21, 2025

Dru2 said:
Ah, I missed that.

Anyway, to keep colors consistent I use a color hex so I know the colors match between devices; but I also use both the iCUE software for my Corsair products and Gigabyte's RGB Fusion software for my board and items connected to it.

The hexadecimal color #9D00FF, known as purple, has RGB values of R:157 G:0, B:255 and CMYK values of C:0.38 M:1, Y:0, K:0. That said, if one device isn't capable of displaying that shade, while another is, yeah, you'll get different shades between the two RGB devices.

When I installed my GPU and connected the RGB cable to the board, the color color was immediately set to blue

The colors aren't coming out correctly on the AIO. I copied the same RGB code to all the items, and the AIO just looks washed out. Maybe it's defective. At least it cools.

retiredat44 · May 21, 2025

Marie SWE said:
Nice setups folks

I think we need some older computers.. its a bit to modern in here

I just gave away two old computers from the years 2000 and 2010

PerpetualCycle · May 22, 2025

I have moved to the dark side (literally). I usually have my lights off and I am now windowless, focusing on performance.

I just did some maintenance/checking. One side of my processor runs a lot hotter (odd pcores) under load than the other (even). I was using a thermalright contact frame and thought it might be that. It wasn't. So it is either my AIO coldplate ((which is fairly convex, or the Intel indium, solder/die/heatsink. No difference in temps between contact frame and Intel ILM clamp.

So anyhow, here is a crappy phone picture of the mesh side panel. The color of the light is actually gold, but like I said they are usually off because you can't see much through the mesh. The bracket with the fan is for cooling the memory.

Dru2 · May 22, 2025

I'll be disassembling my backup system cause it appears something shorted my old GPU in addition to now not being able to enable XMP without resetting and complaining something is causing a BIOS failure and not allowing the system to boot into Windows. Have to Load Optimized Defaults to get the BIOS to stick and allow me into Windows. Odd as the was my main rig before I did the new build and had zero issues.

Whatever happened, happened when I moved the system out my current case to the backup system's case.

retiredat44 · May 23, 2025

Dru2 said:
I'll be disassembling my backup system cause it appears something shorted my old GPU in addition to now not being able to enable XMP without resetting and complaining something is causing a BIOS failure and not allowing the system to boot into Windows. Have to Load Optimized Defaults to get the BIOS to stick and allow me into Windows. Odd as the was my main rig before I did the new build and had zero issues.

Whatever happened, happened when I moved the system out my current case to the backup system's case.

are the header wires correct?

Dru2 · May 23, 2025

retiredat44 said:
are the header wires correct?

Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of and checked. And why I need to take the system apart

I had to modify the case by drilling a couple of holes for my larger AIO and fans, but I was pretty sure I cleaned up things before putting the system in it. Maybe not

Scannerman · Sunday at 12:44 PM

Not mine but I worked on enough of them that looked like this.

gunrunnerjohn · Sunday at 12:52 PM

Scannerman said:
Not mine but I worked on enough of them that looked like this.

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Looks like the machine my grandson brought down for me to fix. :lmao:

Scannerman · Sunday at 1:00 PM

gunrunnerjohn said:
Looks like the machine my grandson brought down for me to fix.

I have a pink one with a tempered glass window that's starting to go that way. Too lazy to clean it because it's the girls "guest" computer.

retiredat44 · Sunday at 3:03 PM

is that dust or cheese?

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