Corsair iCue Suite

CORSAIR’S ICUE SOFTWARE has been on the block for a while now, and it’s certainly one of the better pieces of RGB-control software out there. They all have their issues, whether your beef is with Razer’s Synapse, Gigabyte’s RGB Fusion, or MSI’s Mystic Light. But iCue functions well and enables you to easily synchronize the lighting effects on your Corsair products, so a transition towards direct hardware support is hardly surprising.

We’ve got several pieces on display for Tech Porn this issue, but most eye-catching is the LT100 Smart Lighting Towers. These twin spires are designed to sit either side of your screen (or wherever else you’d care to mount them) and expand upon any existing lighting effects you have set up. They’re impressively bright, and come pre-loaded with a ton of animated effects—or, if you’re so inclined, they can dynamically synchronize to games, videos, or music.

The LT100 towers are pretty great, but they’re mostly an aesthetic addition. For more control over your gaming experience, there’s the iCue Nexus, a “companion touch screen’ that clips onto the top of a compatible Corsair keyboard. The Nexus display is fully customizable within Corsair’s iCue software; you can select up to six programmable “buttons” on-screen at once, editing the fonts, icons, and color schemes.

These virtual hotkeys can be used for all manner of quick shortcuts, whether it’s instantly adjusting the lighting preset of your setup or muting in-game audio so you can better hear your chat. It’s remarkably easy to set up in the iCue software menu, too.