The War on Cables is raging, aiming to make the principle chamber of your desktop PC as clear as a vegetarian’s barbecue grill. Corsair’s latest thought is on show at Computex: A system of followers, AIO coolers, and different gear that may be daisy-chained throughout a whole desktop with one string of cables. Gordon went hands-on at Corsair’s sales space on the present flooring to see what it’s all about.

The complete factor begins with the iCue Link System Hub, a little bit plastic gadget concerning the dimension of a matchbox. This takes a normal PCIe energy rail out of your energy provide (most 168 watts), plus a MicroUSB cable that plugs into the headers in your motherboard. The hub can match kind of anyplace in your case due to a magnetic backside.

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With energy and knowledge going to the hub, it could energy and handle each cooling and lighting gadget in your case. There are two slots for Corsair’s proprietary single energy/knowledge cable exiting the hub, and every one can deal with as much as seven gadgets chained collectively (for a most of fourteen on two completely different traces). That consists of all-in-one liquid cooler techniques, case followers which can be both on their very own or related in banks with fancy magnetic connectors, and even superior parts like coolant reservoirs and GPU water blocks. Additional cables go between every related element, offering energy and knowledge alongside the road.

But it’s not simply fundamental energy that’s being offered. With the iCue software program managing the parts through the hub, plus embedded temperature sensors in every fan, it could truly alter the velocity of the followers individually to supply even temperatures throughout the system. If that’s too sensible for you, Corsair has a number of new strobe lighting tips that may make it appear like your followers are standing nonetheless.

The iCue Link hub and appropriate followers and AIO models are scheduled to be launched later this month, with extra superior parts following. How a lot is all this fancy tech going to price? It received’t be low cost, definitely, however Corsair says it’ll be solely about 10 p.c greater than its comparable {hardware} with out the Link goodies. For extra updates on the War on Cables and dwell protection of Computex, be sure you subscribe to PCWorld on YouTube.