Corsair has debuted a brand new combination piece of beta software known as the iCUE, which brings together its industry-leading (and this writer's favorite) peripheral backlight management software with its Link cooling management tool. It brings together robust lighting systems with system monitoring and control through fan speed control, temperature sensors and full RGB lighting.
The new iCUE system is very much in beta at the moment but it will be most familiar to those who have used the CUE software extensively as it looks much more like that the Link system that pure watercooling users may be used to. CUE and Link will still continue to exist until this new software suite leaves beta, but then Corsair will be dropping support for them and will focus all of its attention on the new iCUE system.
As PCGamesN points out though, this shouldn't be a sad day for Corsair fans. Indeed the new iCUE platform is much more robust and lets users twin their lighting profiles with their cooling system. For example, now when your system heats up, you can have the LED lighting of the CPU block and any associated LEDs change color to reflect that. You can set everything to a stealth mode gaming set up that lowers all of the lighting down and drops the fan speeds to reduce noise output. You could even have new lighting and cooling profiles for individual games, which are then twinned with DPI settings and keyboard remapping if you have Corsair peripherals and cooling systems on the same PC.
There are already some game companies getting on board with the new iCUE platform. Ubisoft has reportedly worked with Corsair to create some Far Cry 5 specific lighting profiles so that as soon as you boot the game, with no customization from the user, everything changes to match the game.
Of course you'll need Corsair products to take advantage of all this. Which ones, if any, do you guys have?
