gillmanjr
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I'm curious if any of you would do what I am in the process of doing or if you think I'm crazy. Be honest, I don't care. Here's the story...
A little less than a month ago I bought an NZXT Kraken X62 AIO water cooler so I could OC my CPU farther, plus I am upgrading CPU soon. I compared the Kraken and the Corsair Hydro and chose the NZXT because of reviews. Part of operating this cooler is NZXT's "CAM" software which controls the lighting, pump and fan speeds, etc. You must have CAM running in your system tray for the cooler to work properly and frankly, I don't like the software.
A few days ago I bought a new keyboard and mouse, which I've been wanting to do for a while. I decided on a Corsair K70 and Sabre mouse (both of which are incredibly awesome btw). Corsair's software is called "iCue", which you also need to run if you want the RGB lighting and keys/mouseclicks set the way you want it. I like iCue more than NZXTs software, FYI.
Now maybe I'm just neurotic about this but I really hate having a million different programs running in the background and using up my system resources. It annoys me. Plus it forces you to learn/use all of those different programs to make changes. I realized yesterday that if I had bought a Corsair Hydro series cooler that I could also control it with the iCue software and wouldn't need something different. For that reason alone I just ordered the Corsair Hydro H150i and will be returning the NZXT. Luckily I am just within the return window for the Kraken.
Would any of you had done the same if you were in my position or do you think thats crazy?
A little less than a month ago I bought an NZXT Kraken X62 AIO water cooler so I could OC my CPU farther, plus I am upgrading CPU soon. I compared the Kraken and the Corsair Hydro and chose the NZXT because of reviews. Part of operating this cooler is NZXT's "CAM" software which controls the lighting, pump and fan speeds, etc. You must have CAM running in your system tray for the cooler to work properly and frankly, I don't like the software.
A few days ago I bought a new keyboard and mouse, which I've been wanting to do for a while. I decided on a Corsair K70 and Sabre mouse (both of which are incredibly awesome btw). Corsair's software is called "iCue", which you also need to run if you want the RGB lighting and keys/mouseclicks set the way you want it. I like iCue more than NZXTs software, FYI.
Now maybe I'm just neurotic about this but I really hate having a million different programs running in the background and using up my system resources. It annoys me. Plus it forces you to learn/use all of those different programs to make changes. I realized yesterday that if I had bought a Corsair Hydro series cooler that I could also control it with the iCue software and wouldn't need something different. For that reason alone I just ordered the Corsair Hydro H150i and will be returning the NZXT. Luckily I am just within the return window for the Kraken.
Would any of you had done the same if you were in my position or do you think thats crazy?