Corsair introduces iCUE Link to make building your next PC easier

Date:
Tue, 30 May 2023 11:46:09 +0000

Description:
The new smart component ecosystem promises to solve all your PC-building woes - provided you stick with Corsair parts.

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Building a DIY custom PC can be arduous, even for seasoned PC builders like myself. But iCUE Link, a new product line from component manufacturer
Corsair, could make the whole process a lot more streamlined.

I remember spending hours on my very first PC build years ago, struggling to fit everything together inside my case - and the worst part of it all, something that still plagues me even now, was cable management. Good cable management is something of a holy grail among PC builders, with all too many of us settling for an opaque side panel that conceals our cable clutter.

iCUE Link, which Corsair describes as a smart component ecosystem, uses patent-pending single-cable connections to link (see what they did there?)
all your components together. For example, an LED fan wont need both a power cable and an RGB control cable routed through the case; itll just have a single cable. Cleaning up your case Daisy-chaining components is great, but even better is how the iCUE Link fans can connect to each other simply by slotting together on a radiator or fan mount. (Image credit: Corsair)

The real draw here isnt just that each component only needs a single cable, though, its that you can daisy-chain any compatible parts together, with only one end cable connecting to the Corsair control hub.

Fans mounted side-by-side on the same radiator can be linked together
directly without any cables at all. The image above illustrates how this will work. Previously, every single fan would need a separate connection to the
hub in the bottom left.

The picture below shows what your case could look like with iCUE Link at work - sure, it probably wont be quite as neat and tidy as this, but even my own current gaming PC (which is somewhere in the triple digits of computers Ive built) doesnt look this good behind the side panel. Look at how clean that cable management is. This is bordering on pornographic for PC-builders like me. (Image credit: Corsair)

Building your own PC is still a serious undertaking - and if you prefer the easy life, all the best computers are no assembly required - but Corsair claims that using Link products can speed up the overall process by as much
as 50%. Im not entirely sure where that figure comes from, but I can attest that cable management can be a time-consuming aspect of putting together a high-performance PC. The only downside, of course, is that youll need to
stick with compatible Corsair components to get the best experience - and while Corsairs products are typically very high quality, there are cheaper options out there.

Corsair offers the full details in a blog post , confirming that the first wave of Link-compatible products will be landing very soon in June, with more products coming later in 2023. Personally, I think this is a great step forward in simplifying the PC-building process; I just wish Corsair made more stuff, so this wouldnt be limited to just cooling components. Corsair
graphics cards , please?



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/corsair-introduces-icue-link-to-make-building-y our-next-pc-easier


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