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Corsair, Asus, and others are making it easier to build a beautiful PC
11.01.2024 - 18:59 / theverge.com / Tom Warren
By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. He founded WinRumors, a site dedicated to Microsoft news, before joining The Verge in 2012.
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I hate cables. I hide them in the walls behind my TV, I make them disappear around my desk, and I try to eradicate them everywhere else in my life. So every time I hear about something in the PC building community that involves hiding or removing cables, I get excited. Over the past few years, some of the biggest names in PC building have been making it easier to hide cables away and build a PC that showcases your skills.
I’ve built a lot of PCs over the past 25 years, and the main part of the process I hate the most is cable management. It often takes me longer to tidy up cables and route them properly than it does to put all the parts of a PC together. It’s especially bad if you’ve decided to build a PC with a bunch of RGB fans and an all-in-one (AIO) cooler. There are more cables to hide and more lighting to reveal any mistakes you make. Thankfully, a lot has changed in recent years.
Case manufacturer Lian Li helped push the PC building industry toward daisy-chained RGB fans with its Uni Fan a few years ago. Instead of two cables per fan (one for power and one for lighting), the Uni Fans connect together, so you only need to route a single cable for a block of fans. It’s a design that takes away a lot of clutter, so naturally it led to many competitors launching their own versions.
Corsair was one of them with its iCUE Link system. Launched last year, it offers daisy-chained RGB fans and AIO coolers that hide all the cables away. Corsair has even moved all the pump AIO cables into the tubes that route to the radiator, so you don’t have to worry about trying to hide them yourself.
I built a PC recently with the iCUE Link system and was surprised at how much of my cable headaches went away. I have 12 iCUE Link fans in total, with just three cables running to the rear of my Phanteks NV7 case. Without daisy-chained fans, that would be at least 24 cables to cable manage. Instead, there are the three cables and a little hub where the cables attach at the rear, which then feeds into your CPU fan header, USB, and a PCIe power connection.
While there are plenty of daisy-chained RGB fans on the market, I think Corsair has a good balance of features and performance. The iCUE Link fans have a “Time Warp” mode that makes it look like the fans aren’t spinning by synchronizing the strobing of the LEDs with the speed of the fans. It’s a gimmick as pointless as RGB itself, but if you’re spending all this money on making your PC look pretty, then
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