Corsair iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Tower Starter Kit, Black

Look great and is easy to install. They are expensive.

The media could not be loaded. I really love these lights! They’re super bright and look amazing with my setup. The problem is with the software, sometimes it’s really buggy but that’s on Corsair’s part. Also they like to fall off the back of my pc so I put the little things that come with them for wire management to hold them up. The colors aren’t super accurate but it still looks amazing.

These are beautifully defused and can be controlled easily by iCue software but installing them by the instructions is not advisable if you want great cable management. I did not use the metal plates as I found that the magnets are not very strong and getting them to stay in place was really difficult. The plastic stands containing the magnets pop right off and you can use strong two sided 3m exterior tape to mount them to the monitor or just use two sided tape directly on the plastic stands. I also did not want the controller on the monitor so I just ran an extension(provided in the kit) back towards the center of the monitor to run hidden to the underside of the seat where I mounted the controller. Two important hints, make sure you use the input of the ascending strip as shown in the directions and once you have the unit installed, don’t be alarmed if some of the lights will not light on a 2 channel setup. The instructions say you can have up to 138 leds per channel and 192 for both together. I have two 450 mm and two 250 mm on channel one behind the monitor and another four 450mm on channel two behind my desktop for a total of 192. Three leds would not light until I placed them in lighting channels in iCue. If you are going to try to use these without a computer, you can, your limited to about 188 led’s for some reason. The expectation is that you will fire these up with iCue. They are beautiful but you have to know how to set them up.

The media could not be loaded. EDIT: Read to the bottomBuckle up folks. Its review time.Although the LEDs are flexible, the corsair box they arrive in bends the LEDs and gives them a pre-curve, making them not sit nicely on the magnets. The slightest bump or tug on the cords causes the whole thing to cascade down like a comedic curtain drop, except this curtain drop cost you $100.The adhesive magnetic stickies are EXTREMELY strong, and will not come off once placed on without a chemical cleaner. So make sure you put yours in a nice spot. I cleaned the back of my monitor off with alcohol and they are now a part of my monitor's DNA and possibly its future kin's DNA as well.Make sure you place your magnetic strips as close to the end of the LED strip as possible so the unnatural bending can be addressed (this was not in the instructions and should have been). My girlfriend found the curve appealing for some reason, but not so much for me.Also, the wire connectors between the LED strips are rigid, and force the already-strangely-bent LED strips to weirder angles.The LED strips also make noise while on. It kind of sounds like a very quiet chorus of ants caroling from a distance.The pros, however, is that this LED system work very nicely with iCue, and their brightness is not overwhelming. Makes for great backdrop once you start gaming. They look good, and have a wide range of options for colors and styles.I hope you enjoyed my rant--_-------------WAIT I HAVE MORE.Been using them for a year.Really nice colors.No dead LEDs.They are absolutely incredible for live streamed music.My cats don't really mess with them so that's nice.The band band in the video is Goose. They are incredible.Gave it an extra star because of the Livestream music functionality with iCue. Everything else above still holds.

The media could not be loaded. Producto excelente no he tenido inconvenientes, hay que ser atento en la instalación y organizar bien los cables, afortunadamente los Case de Corsair te permiten ordenar los cables que se conectan al Lighting Node Core, la luz es potente sin ser muy deslumbrante como para distraer tu atención de la pantalla, algunos juegos se conectan con el RGB de las tiras LED inteligentes iCUE LS100 y te dan un experiencia más inmersiva, es compatible con ICUE obviamente, y también compatible con Wallpaper Engine de Steam de tal forma que los colores del Wallpaper coinciden con el color de RGB las tiras, son una excelente compra :D.

A pc monitor backlight kit that can easily swap modes and sync with your display was a highly coveted concept up until recently, beacuse nobody had a convenient package that didn't involve complex setups with custom software.Enter Corsair's LS100 Starter Kit in 2019. I bought this kit October 2020. It was initially fantastic. A unique type of product with convenience and customization that nobody else really offered.Within just a few days, though, issues would crop up. Primarily, ICUE wouldn't recognize the device (very typical). But less than a year later, a portion of the LEDs refused to light up or would spaz out with confetti colors. Reinstalling ICUE, doing firmware updates for the kit did absolutely nothing.So I'd unplug the whole thing, and sometime later, try plugging it back in. Surprisingly, it would work for a moment, then spaz out again. I contacted Corsair and get replacement strips. They also worked perfectly for almost a year -- before the same problems returned. At that point, I just threw it all away.As expensive as this thing is, the very fact that it's basically guaranteed to fail qualifies it as a complete scam and contribues to Corsair's reputation for developing unreliable software.If you're looking for another option, consider the Philips HUE Play Gradient Lightstrip for PC. Admittedly, I haven't used this yet, but there's lots of praise around it and I will be getting one shortly for myself.