SO regular annual removal and cleaning of the radiator is now the norm.Īgain thanks for your help Edited by djmorgan I remove the USB cable and Link software and went back to letting ASUS AI Suite monitor and control my (H80i) fans all other monitoring is done by AIDA64 and MSI Afterbuner, existing programs that run very well on my system, so thanks for your suggestions and help, but my solution whilst it bypasses fluid temps in favour of CPU temps does work for me.Īs a side issue and a plug for H80i doing some stress testing and running the CPU at 100% my temps never go above 45C and fans never at maximum, the older H70 would go beyond 60C with fans at maximum, one reason I think for that is when I removed H70 found the radiator was covered in dust blocking most of the surface area. I am a big fan of corsair having, PSU, memory and cooler, only 1 device will work with link.Īt this time I think link is for a problem that does not exist for me! I'm a mature user so are not a fan of RGB anything except when editing my photos, I am a AAA gamer so performance is paramount and reducing background programs is a prime objective. I did get Corsair link to work using a connection to an external USB port, and I was going to order a Internal USB Hub to make a permanent connection. Thank you very much appreciated the time you took to respond, and I will take your advice :praise::praise: Last, but not least, is to get a Commander Pro, which has two USB headers and serves as a hub itself. Only do this if you are familiar with and comfortable with the cables, by the way. if something else that's connected to one of the internal headers only actually uses 1 port, you can get 2 single port USB extension cables to wire it up. Internal USB headers have pins for 2 USB ports and the cooler really only needs 1 port. Depending on what you have on your internal USB headers, you may be able to wire two devices, including the cooler, to a single header. Another is to use a standard mini-USB cable and run this to an external port on your motherboard's backpanel I/O. One is to get an internal USB hub to give yourself a few more headers. Now, I completely understand being out of internal headers and you have a couple of options there. When the fans are controlled by the cooler, the default control source is the temperature of the coolant.

While you can run the fans for the cooler from a standard fan header, the control you have of them will be limited to using the CPU temperature, which isn't the best control source. So if you see an RPM of 1430, the actual pump RPM is about 2800-2900 RPM. Second, the RPM reading for that fan header will be about 1/2 of the actual pump speed. This powers the pump and the pump requires the full 12V at all times.

First, the pump's fan connector needs to be connected to a fan that runs at 100%, all the time.

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