Apparently PC building is about slapping 'brains' on all your components now
Both Corsair and Hyte are all about slapping «brains» on everything right now when it comes to PC building. Both companies are soon to launch new, smart control systems for PC builders, which will help us keep tabs on everything that's going on in your system. That's alongside full cooling and lighting ecosystems, fans, AIO cooling solutions, and RGB lighting strips to match.
At Computex today, Corsair announced its upcoming iCue link hub and cooling ecosystem that it says is set to «change the way PC building works forever.» Maybe that's a little dramatic, but essentially we're getting a bunch of modular case fans, and the Hydro X cooling system, that all feed into the System Hub—a dinky little «brain» that controls everything—with just one wire.
The upcoming QX fans come in 120mm and 140mm, with each one having its own brain… A sensor, it's called a sensor guys.
What that means is that you'll be able to read not just the system's temperature as a whole, but the temperature of each fan individually. For reasons. It also keeps track of fan speed, and the iCue Link tech means you can jam them all together with proprietary connectors, rather than having cables spread everywhere.
You can have up to seven fans linked together, all feeding into the iCue Link System Hub and connected up with just one PCIe cable.
«The system gets smarter still with the Hydro X cooling system, » a Corsair spokesperson says, «with the GPU block, the pump, the CPU fan also all connected on that one wire system.»
Senior Director Harry Butler promised me Corsair's new iCue wasn't going to be «yet another AI gimmick» trying to upsell us PC parts and the like, and I'm really glad that's not the case—could you blame me for asking, though? Instead we
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