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Product Showcase iCUE Nexus
Next to the K100 RGB, we also received an iCUE Nexus. This is a funky LCD touch screen that you can hook into the iCUE application infrastructure, and then use it to poll and monitor temperatures from your components or simply monitor Corsair devices.
Quite fun, quite handy, and you can clip it onto the K100 RGB. Mind you to secure it you need to use a bit of applied 3M sticky tape (include). We did not do that nd as such in some of the photos the Nexus was not aligned nicely. Also, we do feel that a proper clip-on mounting structure would be better than using adhesive 3M sticky tape Corsair, come on.
Once installed, you connect to iCUE through the USB cable and it'll be recognized and listed on the homepage. The background for each screen can also be changed to a different static color, a different image altogether you can upload (640x48).
For every Corsair device you have, Nexus immediately creates a screen with some matching options.
You can even adjust the DPI setting of your Corsair mouse, or adjust the RGB setting of your entire Corsair Ecosystem. You can create multiple screens (swipe between them) with say time and your CPU and GPU temperature, or you can set your own buttons on the screen with all the usual iCue options: macros, timers, specific apps startup, profiles adjust, etcetera.
One word of advice, one we started monitoring and polling, our CPU utilization for iCUE went up with sometimes 6%. Hopefully, that'll be solved with future iCUE updates.