So I'm new here, but not to building computers of course. Been building, configuring, and fixing computers for about 14 years now. I was very active on Nvidia's forum before it got hacked and became the new Geforce forum (can't stand the new format).
So anyway, I just upgraded from my Z97 Haswell system to a Z-370 ASUS Maximus Hero X motherboard, i7 8700K, and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR4-3000 RGB.
Now, I won't get too in depth about my system, suffice to say that there are RGB's built into the motherboard, DRAM, H100i Pro RGB cooler, and my EVGA 1080Ti SC2 graphics card.
I had REALLY high hopes for ASUS AURA sync. I heard such good things about it from popular YouTube celebs like Jay2Cents. But I had nothing but issues with it when I finally installed the latest version. Granted, I had Corsair's new iCUE software installed as well, which they admit is still in the testing phase and it's extremely buggy. It turns out that AURA doesn't play well with iCUE on my system, which is a big deal since my VOID Pro headset actually needs iCUE to get full use from. Thankfully I don't actually need the mic on those headphones and they do come with a 3.5mm jack so you can use them as headphones alone, so I am working around this issue for now .There is no 3.5mm jack for a mic on the VOID Pro headset, so you NEED USB and iCUE for that. I uninstalled iCUE and went back to using Corsair Link. Now Link sadly doesn't have a setting to just hand total LED control over to AURA (wish it did), but also doesn't seem to interfere much with AURA sync no matter what you have the LED's set on. That said, AURA only detects Corsair's DRAM and can't even control ANYTHING else on my board.
AURA installs a few pieces of software on my system, including Patriot's RGB controlling software AND Galaxy's GPU RGB control software. The Galaxy software doesn't allow AURA to access my GPU's RGB LED's at all. I still have to use EVGA Precision to change it at all. I keep it on a static color. Even Corsair's own software cannot link the LED's between the latest H1xx series coolers and their RAM or fans, which just blows me away. I mean I can't believe that. I even tried syncing them up manually but the DRAM has a fine grain control over the speed of the LED's, however there are only THREE speed settings on the CPU cooler, so I can get them close, but they get more and more out of sync as time goes on so I gave up and set the CPU cooler to static as well.
Now the motherboard's LED's (it has quite a few) and the DRAM will sync fairly decently just using AURA now that iCUE is uninstalled. Back when iQUE was installed, my DRAM kept freezing on a pink color and only a restart would fix that.
So I'm just wondering if anyone that has an ASUS mainboard, Corsair peripherals, and perhaps even some EVGA gear has gotten them to sync for ANY lighting effects that would require synced lighting... If you have, please let me know what sorcery you used to achieve this. I also have a GSKILL 780X cherry MX Brown RGB keyboard along with a matching MX780 RGB mouse. Those don't show up in AURA either, even though they are full RGB. That doesn't bother me much though because I already have my profiles for them set through GSKILL's software and I like them just fine, so i wouldn't change either anyway.
We are desperately in need of an open API for controlling RGB LED's not only from the addressable ports on the MOBO, but even USB and PCIe as well. I guess we have a while before this happens yet. This is my first build where I had so much RGB going on. I'd love to use more effects but it's just really not possible. I even have a set of three Corsair LL120 RGB fans (probably the most expensive fans around today as I paid $120 for them) but I haven't installed them yet. I know I can get some really SICK effects with those fans alone, so perhaps I'll go static with everything else and just use Link to create a cool effect with the fans. I hope you all are having a better experience with me. I'm in RGB hell here.
