corsair link question

[Bliff]

problely not the best place to ask this but

i have my psu connected to the mobo usb for link and am thinking about getting a 115i pro

it also uses link but i have no usb spots on the mobo empty. do you need both to be connected at the same time or will it work with just the psu connected

[tacoshy]

Uhm what? A PSU connected to the USB Port?

And no an corsair link can't control anything if the hardware ist connected to the USB port. How else would it recognize it?

[John Doe]

Originally posted by tacoshy:

Uhm what? A PSU connected to the USB Port?

And no an corsair link can't control anything if the hardware ist connected to the USB port. How else would it recognize it?

Do you even know how Corsair Link works?

You plug in a micro USB dongle to one end of your PSU, and the other end is one that plugs into your mobo's USB 2.0 headers.

Back on topic, if you could find a Corsair Commander, you can plug both the H115i Pro and the PSU's Link dongles to one unit. Or else you might not be able to make both work on the Link at the same time, since you only have one USB 2.0 extension onboard.

[tacoshy]

Yes I know how Corsair Link works... I use it with a Commander Pro for my HD140's

But what PSU requires to be connected to a MoBo with USB in the first place?

[John Doe]

Literally anything from the "i" line that supports digital monitoring. Ranging all the way from AX760i to HX1000i's and AX1500i.

[tacoshy]

Originally posted by John Doe:

Literally anything from the "i" line that supports digital monitoring. Ranging all the way from AX760i to HX1000i's and AX1500i.

Which doesn't require corsair link to work. Well without it you can't monitor your PSU load but who need that in the first place? The few enthusiast that get useful information from a PSU monitoring doesn't have issues of not enough USB ports...

[Malygos]

Originally posted by Bliff:

problely not the best place to ask this but

i have my psu connected to the mobo usb for link and am thinking about getting a 115i pro

it also uses link but i have no usb spots on the mobo empty. do you need both to be connected at the same time or will it work with just the psu connected

Why are you monitoring your psu? The pump will come with a sata plug in for power and a usb 2.0 plug in for the motherboard id ditch the psu monitoring cpu monitoring is far more important

[Omega]

Disconnect the PSU or run the AIO at stock settings without Corsair Link.

Originally posted by tacoshy:

Originally posted by John Doe:

Literally anything from the "i" line that supports digital monitoring. Ranging all the way from AX760i to HX1000i's and AX1500i.

Which doesn't require corsair link to work. Well without it you can't monitor your PSU load but who need that in the first place? The few enthusiast that get useful information from a PSU monitoring doesn't have issues of not enough USB ports...

You need to use USB headers. I just maxed all my 2.0 headers when I bought my new hx750i.

It's just cool to see a graph of power usage etc..

[John Doe]

Originally posted by tacoshy:

Originally posted by John Doe:

Literally anything from the "i" line that supports digital monitoring. Ranging all the way from AX760i to HX1000i's and AX1500i.

Which doesn't require corsair link to work. Well without it you can't monitor your PSU load but who need that in the first place? The few enthusiast that get useful information from a PSU monitoring doesn't have issues of not enough USB ports...

I use Corsair Link for most my monitoring purposes, that includes CPU temp and such as well. It puts all of them in one main window that is not too detailed, but not too basic either.

It's cool seeing how much power you pull. Yes, you don't "need" it but you "want" it. That's one of the reasons of having a digital PSU. If you have it, why not make use of it?

Not to mention that it lets other stuff like changing OCP points, setting a PSU fan curve etc... it's useful actually.

[tacoshy]

I don't say that monitoring a PSU is always useless but if you have to decide between monitoring a PSU and controlling not just monitoring the AiO then it is.

[John Doe]

Well yeah, pump speed of an AIO you can control. If you're concerned about things like pump failing, then yes you should have it on the Link.