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Starter kit consists of twin 422mm aluminium towers with 46 RGB LEDs each.
£129.99 Wow. Simply W-O-W!
A Fool And His Money.... comes to mind.
My first question is - Does the quad tower setup daisy-chain to run off one AC power adapter, or does each tower require it's own, thus taking up all four mains sockets in my room or encouraging very unsafe use of a 4-way extension cable?
Second question is how it all connects - I presume anything PC-related will require a proprietary connector and will not be compatible with standard pin RGB headers?
Really?Quote:
Originally Posted by HEXUS
How nice...
My Aquacomputer Farbwerk 360 has four channels that does 90 LEDs each, for a total of 360 LEDs, each one individually addressable. I can run it internally or externally and it's controlled by Aquasuite with a vastly wider array of patterns. I believe it even has an add-on that allows it to use the proprietary connectors on NZXT and Corsair RGB kit!
For that, I could have six towers with more LEDs per tower, or up to twenty-four towers at 15 LEDs each, all run off one small palm-sized unit. About the only thing I can't do is run it without a PC really as there's no on-board memory I am aware of (although I could even be wrong about that!).
My Farbwek360 costs £30, includes two LED strips plus cables, and the expansions are, like, a fiver.Quote:
Originally Posted by HEXUS
OK, so... credit to Corsair for trying something different, but at ridiculous rip-off prices for something I could make myself for about a quarter of the price with six times the performance and even a better headset stand, it's a very small credit... barely more than a footnote.
Indeed. I would actually rather like something like this (if it was Razer, to work with synapse) but not at that sort of money - it would be good for lighting up parts of my room when streaming to create some nice effects.Quote:
Originally Posted by blokeinkent
As it is, I think i'll stick with the also ludicrously expensive, but under half the price, Phillips hue option. It's not "gaming" but does what I need for a lot less.
Still, I bet they will sell a bunch and their you-tuber fans (or shills, depending on your level of pessimism) will rate them as amazing value ;)
https://i.imgur.com/snsSxZZ.jpg
Wow a solution looking for a problem.
Can it sync to a heart-rate monitor....? I can think of a comedy use in a gym. The rainbow heart-attack warning system detector... That would be more useful than a desk top accessory where I do not want lights glaring in the corners of my eyes.
I would never put something like that up, i mean when i stream to my thousands of followers i dont want anything distraction from me, their god and savior.
Just kidding i would never stream anything and sure as hell not my face, i mean in the words of Jimmy Valmer ,,,,,,, COME ON !
It is just yet another fab i so not get, even knowing someone make bucket loads of money doing just that,,,, i still think it is sick ( sick as in bad sick )
There is actually a precedent.... They've just run way too far with it, is all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentle Viking
Basically, you're not supposed to play games or watch TV in a completely darkened room. You're meant to have some kind of background lighting on, ideally something that also lights up the area immediately around your screen.
There are some 'Gaming' solutions that already achieve this - Most lamps are just on or off, so these use RGB light strips that go on the back of your monitor. Obviously you can change the light colour, intensity, brightness and other attributes to best suit your own eyes, without having to use the Unicorn Vomit Demo mode... but you can also do all that if you want. Plenty of other solutions implement it far better - Mine runs off one of the USBs on the monitor itself.
Corsair merely jumped on the bandwagon without really seeing what everyone else had already done.
Yeeeesssss, more RGB uselessness !
I wonder how many of these will ACTUALLY sell ? Corsair seem to think there is a market for it. I bet there is a percentage of the Overclockers.co.uk/forums are wild for it.
It is buy, open up and throw away methods people are going after today, it would not be listed here if they did not have a market for it already.
It is like buying a Ferrari sun glasses and not having a Ferrari.
I'd like to express my true thoughts on this, but I don't want to be banned from the forum.
I have an idea - we wait for this to hit the market and track it on Amazon via 3camels, then watch the price plummet as the complete lack of demand becomes apparent.
There is obviously the possibility that some morons will buy this - after all, there's one born every minute - in which case, I'll say congratulations to Corsair for successfully extracting fleece from humans... or extracting urine from the tech community.
Yeah, one of those.
That's crazy money. If you want funky RGB just get AMD's wraith prism cooler. Its pretty funky when setup with its odd strobe effect on the fan blades - its also only £13 on Amazon used. Heck my new case, a Gamemax F15 came with 2x 20cm aRGB, 1 x 13cm aRGB fan + fan/argb controller for £60 total.
I can see the down the side of the monitor lighting (like the phillips stuff) + headset stand would be nice for £40, maybe £50 at a push but this is crazy. Then again I guess I'm not the target market.
That's oddly specific... You have a personal gripe with that lot, or something? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Andi-C
I'm sure there are people in forums all over the world who would go equally wild for this. Mainly those who simply aren't aware it can be, and has been, done better for less money.
Ooooh.... hows about marketing it to makers of resus trolleys? Link it to the defib and, when it all goes tits up, you can have it flashing at 120bpm, to allow for perfect CPR rate... AND you could have the colour changing for when someone is compressing too deep or too shallow!Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
Corsair, I've just found a market for your utterly stupid product, in an equally utterly stupid setting.
I'm sure it'll also help weed out any latent epileptics in the room as well.
I came for the price, wondering how Razer they would go.
They went full Razer. Never go full Razer.
LOL pcper gave them a rainbow gold award
where have I seen this before....??
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condition rainbow, when it's time for filling your pants and nothing you do will make any difference.
I thought that was just for Pride season?Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
Am I reading that right? £130 for the two-Tower starter kit. £60 each for additional towers, so £250 (plus, don't forget £5 shipping).
And .... ummm .... why?
Petty lights?
Okay, I admit, I have wifi-controlled LED overhead dimmer lights. And they are colour-temp controllable, but white. And a couple of Alexa-controlled Phillips Hue bulbs, again dimmer but white. But they're functional, and didn't cost anything like that much, including two 3rd Gen Echo devices.
I hope it will gonna work
iCue is the single worst application it has been my misfortune to come across
surely you're not saying these otherwise pointless desk lights are simply to show gay pride?Quote:
Originally Posted by philehidiot
This is for people that want what you have, but without having to know anything about wiring domestic lights or messing around with Alexa (Amazonz stealz ur data) and anything like that.... and who may also want some additional colour in their lives (mental health wellbeing).Quote:
Originally Posted by Saracen999
It's pure plug & play.... just badly done and way overpriced, is all.
Only because you have not yet tried Gigabyte's RGB Fusion.....! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Phage
iCUE itself is probably the most comprehensive and capable RGB software around, but is hampered by Corsair's proprietary connectors, and it requires a lot of time to painstakingly assemble each LED change for each LED effect, one at a time, millisecond by millisecond.
This is how come there are people who offer (for sale, or for free) hundreds of pre-built iCUE profiles and patterns.
You don't need to know anything about domestic wiring to do what I've done, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
The WiFi lights come with a simple little remote. Four individual "channel" buttons and an overall power.
Installation? Take standard bulb out. Put WiFi bulb in. Job done. It's precisely as complicated as changing a blown bulb.
Configuring WiFi remote?
Turn on bulb at switch or wall socket. Within a few seconds, press and hold one of those four switches I mentioned. After a second or two, bulb flashes. Job done.
That remote now controls the bulb or bulbs set to that channel.
The difference is, perhaps, why I went for these. It's pragmatic. I needed the remote control.
As for Alexa, installation basically does much the same as above, given that you have a (suitable) smartphone and the Alexa app. It's a little trickier, but not much, and the instructions can be read in about 1 minute.
As for Alexa stealing data, and taking that at face value, I guess Amazon now know when I turn bulbs on and off and have a sort-of insight in my musical tastes. I wish them luck exploiting that. ;) :D
You said you had a dimmer switch on the main overhead. Does that no longer mean turning off the mains and doing some rewiring of the light switch, while making sure your choice of bulb is suitable for variable current....?Quote:
Originally Posted by Saracen999
As for Alexa, I don't actually believe you have one.
Coming from the guy who won't use Steam or anything else that requires giving out personal data, the idea that the same guy would then invite into his home one of the industry's biggest players in tracking your every move and then spamming the pants off you (pants available for £4.99) with tailored-content adverts..... well, it's just completely lacking any credibility. In fact, it'd be more believable if it was a Special Forces tale written by Chris Ryan and starring Ross Kemp!!
On the first bit, no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
The bulbs I use (hard or impossible to find now) are simply either bayonet (E22) or Edison Screw (ES). So they work in any light fitting or lamp that uses B22 or ES. bulbs. I have four in overhead lights, i.e. 2 bulbs in each ceiling light, and two ceiling lights. And, one in a table lamp.
With the bulbs, you need either a little remote control, or a WiFi bridge that links them in as part of a bigger system. I just use the remote (about £8). There is an overall on/off on the remote, and then four rocker switches, one for each of four "channels".
I have overhead light 1 controlled by rocker 1, overhead light 2 by rocker 2 and the table lamp on rocker 3.
So, rocker 1 controls 2 bulbs, as does rocker 2. I could have controlled each bulb in, say, light 1 separately, and been able to dim or brighten them separately, but I wanted to dim the whole fitting, not each bulb.
So ... 4 channels. Each can control one or multiple bulbs.
Whichever rocker you used most recently is "active". The remote also has a 4-way rocker that does up/down, or left/right. The up and down brighten or dim any bulbs on the active channel, while left/right adjusts the colour temp, i.e. Blue-White to yellow-White.
The wall switch, or online switch on the table lamp can be used to remove power from the light fitting, in which case, the whole bulb/remote thing stops working, just like a normal light would with no power. (*)
If we were replacing the wall switch with a (manual) dimmer wall switch, then yes, you'd monkey with wiring. I've done that in the past. It's pretty simple but NOT for anyone that doesn't know what they're doing.
There are also WiFi dimmer systems where you do indeed replace the wall switch (whether simple switch or manual dimmer) with a WiFi dimmer, and then use normal bulbs.
But for my system, the dimmer circuitry is internal in the bulb, and sealed. Any user that can replace a blown standard bulb can fit this, and the only exposure to electricity is to a pair of AAA batteries in the remote.
(*) For purists, the ceiling rose may well have power going to it even wwhe the switch is off. Power generally goes to the Rose permanently, and then to the switch and back, using the switched live to turn fitting on/off.
But you have to take the ceiling rose cover off to get and those and you do not do anything at all tto the rose to fit this dimmer system.
I get why you would think that. I'll drop you a PM later with an extra point or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
But I now have two Echo devices 3rd gen Alexa), a standard Echo and a Dot. Several lights are controlled by them. They're Hue bulbs but White dimmers, not colour changing. I've just added Alexa-enabled wireless headphones (Sennheiser Momentum 3). I can wander round the house and indeed some of the garden with those, listening to just about anything. I have Amazon Prime (at the moment) as well as Music Unlimited (hence listening to anything) and Kindle Unlimited. And I'm on .... umm .... my fourth Kindle. Tempted by the new-ish one (Oasis?).
The Echo's have what boils to a Zigbee mini-hub sufficient to run Phillips Hue bulbs but if you want much more in the way of home automation it needs a separate Zigbee bridge.
@Saracen999 if you got a way to contain personal data from amazon, please drop me a hint or two on PM plz;)
I have iCue, and like a fool, forgetting the issues I had getting it to install last year, I hit the update button.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
The installer hung at 65%.
Killing the process in task manager, left windows installer service running, and not able to be stopped. It also wouldn't allow the machine to reboot. Only a hard reset would regain access to the system.
This left a half installed application, which did not appear in the Windows Control panel. The only way to uninstall it was to boot to safe mode, then use Regedit.
I tried again. This time the installer recognised my peripherals and popped up another download/update box. I tried that method as well. The installer hung at 65%
Another hard reset, and this time I ensured that all other drivers were updated, and that all non-essential hardware was unplugged. (2nd SSD and optical)
Installer hangs at 65%
I tried an old version of CUE that I have previously had success with. Installer hung.
By this time the only way I can get the headphones to work at all, was to recover from a back up (April) and allow Windows to install it's own drivers.
So now I have a functioning but only Stereo head set, and the profile I saved to the keyboard and the mouse just is stuck at default.
If I had, I'd shout it from the rooftops. Sorry.Quote:
Originally Posted by DevDrake
I presume you've tried clean-installing all the latest drivers for all the Corsair kit, and then tried clean-installing the latest iCUE?Quote:
Originally Posted by Phage
But hey, at least you haven't had to reflash BIOS and completely clean-install Windows, so iCUE is still doing better than RGB Fusion!! :D
Yep - did the whole update everything then clean install - Nada
I did have to recover from a system image because it messed up the boot. So close
Absolutely agree there, I had a Gigabyte board with that awful software on it, was a pain to use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Now I have a MSI board and a Wraith RGB cooler, for which I am using the coolermaster software for it.
So now I just let MSI Dragon Centre and Coolermaster Wraith software fight it out to who is controlling the fan RGB.
On start up dragon centre is controlling it then coolermaster software loads and takes over, at some point something must tick in the dragon centre and it takes control again and so on and so forth.