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so if you already have an Asus
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motherboard or you're thinking about
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purchasing an Aus motherboard and you
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want to know a little bit more about RGB
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lighting control using that motherboard
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we're going to get into it here real
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quick now when we talk about motherboard
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RGB control what we're talking about is
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the motherboard itself is the RGB
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controller it'll have a number of
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different RGB elements uh meaning it has
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some RGB lighting built into it maybe
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you're going to want to check your
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specific model to be sure most Asus
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boards are going to have two different
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types of ports it's going to have an RGB
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header
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which is going to be a 12vt RGB header
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meaning it's going to have four pins a
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12vt signal a red green and a blue
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signal it's a four pin connector the
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header that most of us are using and are
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interested in is the 5vt argb header uh
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which is a three pin connector uh the
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connector actually has four positions on
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it but the one pin is not present and on
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the connector it's blanked out so that's
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a 5volt signal uh and it's got a data
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signal and a ground so the software you
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want to become familiar with if you're
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talking about Asus RGB lighting control
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is Armory crate is the primary one now
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Armory crate includes the aura sync
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software there is also Aura Creator out
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there and what Aura Creator allows you
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to do is create some very customized
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lighting sequences now AA Creator is its
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own piece of software it's not required
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for you to use it uh oryn has some basic
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built-in functions for you to do but
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really to get the full potential out of
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it you're going to want to get Aura
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Creator as well the other piece of
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software you might want is AI Suite now
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what that does for me primarily is does
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fan control because Armory crate does
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very basic fan control it just gives you
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like you know slow medium fast whereas
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the AI Suite you can then go in there
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and create custom fan curves things like
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that in addition to using AA sync and
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fan expert you may have controls over
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your fans and RGB lighting using the
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UEFI bios I recommend that you check
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your specific motherboard for what
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options you have in the Bios as they may
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differ from motherboard to motherboard
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but be aware that there might be
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something there check it out now to
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install the software just do a quick
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search for Armory crate and you'll be
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able to find it or go to asus's website
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and do a search there once you get to
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the download site it's actually going to
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download Armory crate so go ahead and
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get that downloaded and install it it's
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a fairly simple install so this brings
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up a screen where you can choose from a
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couple of different options the one I
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would recommend that you do choose is
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install or a Creator so just a really
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quick tour of the Armory crate software
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obviously it lands you on the dashboard
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here which is just going to give you
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some basic information about your
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Hardware where you know what your
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current speeds of your cores are on your
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CPU uh some GPU information and uh in
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addition to you know what speed your RAM
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is running pretty basic over to the
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right side you get just some quick
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panels now you can move these panels
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around and kind of organize this as you
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want uh obviously you kind of get some
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of your profile information your game
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launchers uh things like that you know
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some basic statistics over here as well
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now the primary one that we're going to
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talk about today is Aura sync so you do
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kind of get get a quick selector panel
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here and going through these these are
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very basic of course you can do static
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from this window here you really can't
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change any of the parameters of the
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effect so but static will just set it to
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a single color of course you get
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breathing strobing of course they're
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they're very basic uh you get a color
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cycle feature you know which is just
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going to cycle through a bunch of
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different colors on the left here you
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get all the icons of different things
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you can do with an Armory crate
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obviously I is the dashboard that we
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just looked at the next one down is to
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select your devices and we must first
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update this device to continue update
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now this brings us to the update Center
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which is another thing the Armory crate
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does now we need to go ahead and update
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the z590 Wii Gundam Edition motherboard
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so that should be up to date now let's
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go back to the device now let's talk
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about what you can configure here
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shutdown effect is the lighting sequence
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that will take place when or a sync is
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not running so basically a hardware mode
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and so you can select from all of the
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basic stuff here as well from here you
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can configure the headers themselves now
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the addressable headers will be the
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5volt headers as we talked about earlier
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uh you can do a Gen 2 uh device on here
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and it should Auto detect that you can
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rescan for those changes uh or you can
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go ahead and manually select the number
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of LEDs here this motherboard has two
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headers your motherboard may vary in how
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many headers it has might have one or
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more some motherboards aren't going to
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have any so if you're wondering whether
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it will do RGB just take a look at the
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owner's manual download the pdf online
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and see doesn't have any AR argb headers
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the addressable RGB headers or any RGB
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headers which are the 12vt ones so but
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you can configure both ports here of
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course you can go to the RGB headers and
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this is a 12volt uh connection now what
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that means in short is that uh you're
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not going to have individual colors on
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the Strip itself and in some cases you
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do need to calibrate it so if you hit
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the calibration it's going to ask you
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what color that do you see and you're
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going to go next and then you want to
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tell it what light do you see first so
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in this case I see red first so we'll
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hit next and then it's going to ask you
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what color you see next which is going
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to be
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blue next and finally what color last is
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green I've seen this done in a number of
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different ways with different pieces of
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software this this one's actually pretty
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well done that it just asks you what
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colors are there anyways you're all done
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with that that's the only setup that you
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can do from here the next icon down is
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AA sync which was one of the main
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features that we want this for and so
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the first screen that comes up is sync
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devices now you may have a whole lot
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more devices here because a lot of the
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Asus products are going to show up here
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their peripherals and memory and RAM and
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you know all sorts of stuff might be
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here there may be a lot of features
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within some of those devices uh that I
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just don't have access to them all so
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we're not going to be able to go through
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them but this should give you a basic
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overview now sync devices means that you
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can sync certain devices together in
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this case I've got the motherboard
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elements and the addressable LED strips
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together that's all you really are going
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to do in the sync devices now if there
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was a particular device you didn't want
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to play in that you could uncheck it
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does have a performance mode if the
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lighting effects are kind of laggy on
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there you can increase that I've not had
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a situation where I've really had to
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play with that I haven't noticed any
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difference but here is where you can
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also configure uh Philips Hue if you
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have some Phillips Hue devices out there
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you can go ahead and connect that here
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okay but Aura effects this is the main
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screen that we're here to talk about
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today so go ahead and switch over to
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this this looks a lot like the basic uh
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screen that we saw on the front end but
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this allows you to change the individual
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parameters of each one so if I go static
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of course I can change uh the color just
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click on the color gives you you know
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the basic color selection wheel and we
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can go ahead and change that around to
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what we want blue
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purple red so on and so forth you can
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put some standard colors and then custom
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colors and other things you can do here
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you can also manually modify the RGB uh
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numerical values should you choose to do
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that okay so very basic kind of what we
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would come to expect you can also do a
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gradient depending on the device that's
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out there uh meaning you can change two
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color and it will create a gradient for
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you uh we get a breathing function which
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is largely just the same thing you know
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we can set a single color we can do it
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random you which is going to change the
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color every time it comes up we can do a
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gradient and we can also change the
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speed on these we have
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strobing color cycle this is just a slow
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cycle through all of the different
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colors that are available out there
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there's really no settings for this not
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even a speed or anything rainbow this is
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a quote the rainbow puke that everybody
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talks about about there are times that
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it actually looks pretty good to kind of
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show it off and see how it looks and
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from here there are a bunch of different
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patterns that you can choose from some
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of these look better than the others but
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you just have to kind of find what fits
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for you um I didn't mind the rainbow
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function I like that it has a couple of
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additional patterns here other than what
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you know we've come to expect of course
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you can
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change uh the speed of the effect and so
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on and so
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forth Starry kn I do personally kind of
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like Star KN but we can uh change the
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background color say we want it
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blue and of course the effect we can
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make it
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random and so it's just kind of a blue
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background with all the effects on there
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and of course we can change the speed
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but you can select music and then any
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music that's playing on your PC kind of
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has a corresponding light effect so very
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cool that works all right we do have
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Smart RGB lighting uh which makes this a
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little bit useful uh CPU temperature I
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personally don't use this all this much
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this is a really good indicator if your
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temperatures are rising above a certain
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point uh you can also select CPU usage
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adaptive color meaning you can kind of
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change it to represent which on your
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screen you can customize this as to what
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you want but it looks like you can
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really only do one box so just depending
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on what you
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want you know if you have a particular
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application or something going on in
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screen that just takes place on one
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little area at least it's here that you
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can do it and you can save that that's
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that lower left
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corner and then basically anything that
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occurs within that zone over here as we
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move this over uh the other function is
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dark off which just turns all the lights
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off on the system now Advanced effects
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what these are is these are the effects
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that you've created with aura Creator
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the other option here is ingame lighting
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effects if you want a particular game
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that's uh compatible with AA sync to
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control your lighting uh this needs to
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be on it's on by default so I believe
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there's a corresponding setting in most
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games that you have to uh turn that
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lighting effect on also if you want to
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integrate this into Corsair IQ this also
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needs to be on and that's what will
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allow IQ to talk to this motherboard so
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if you go back to Aura sync over here
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and we go to AA effect and we click the
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AA Creator
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button it will load another application
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for us Ora creator
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you have to accept the licenses for
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this okay and I agree welcome to Ora
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Creator it's got quite a bit of help in
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there I don't really want to do anything
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so we'll maximize that now over here on
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the left hand side uh you'll see a lot
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of the same effects that we've talked
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about there's maybe one or two new ones
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there I don't have any devices available
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but if I go to PC components I can see
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my motherboard and my headers so this
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took me a little bit to figure out but
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you have to select which device you want
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and then come up here to set as layer
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and then it brings a new layer down here
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on the timeline now if you're familiar
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with video editing software this isn't
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extremely different than that but you
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could go ahead and select each device
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and select each device as its own layer
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now what you can do is you can drag and
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drop lighting effects into this timeline
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so if we take static here we can drop it
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in we can reset size the time so save
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for 2 seconds and then over here on the
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far right we can change what lighting
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parameters surround this so if we want
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it to be green for that long I do wish
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it gave you more of an indication down
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here what it was going to do but you can
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drag and drop these all around
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here and you get the basic idea and then
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from here there's some you know play
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buttons you know it kind of gives you a
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visual representation up here as to what
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it's going to do and so it's a great way
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to to kind of just custom create
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anything so of course you can rename it
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so layer three let's put motherboard
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whatever you get the idea you can kind
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of customize it get your whole timeline
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out uh you can zoom in and out of the
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timeline as you get
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going then once you're done with this
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and you have everything the way that you
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want it you can save and apply and we'll
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save it as a file name so let's
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put Hardware
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artisan
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okay now we have a new lighting element
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called Hardware Artis now if I go back
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to AA sync you can see that I have
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Hardware Artisan selected here and it
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will go ahead and apply that lighting
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effect and you know so on and so forth
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and you can make those pretty lengthy
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and do whatever you want select all the
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different colors whatever sequences
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anyways play around with or Creator it's
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got some pretty cool functions to it I
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like the concept of it in IQ you'll need
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to come over here to settings and then
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go to plugins now I've already got it
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done but you'll need to install the Asus
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plugin then from here the Asus
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motherboard should show up and you're
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basically just going to get the
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different components here so I've got
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you know three back plate uh lighting
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elements and the RGB header it's not
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specific to whether that's 12vt or 5vt
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I've had a really hard time getting this
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to run at all at at times it's worked
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but I need to play around with this a
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little bit more but the idea being is
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that you should be able to select these
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and then you know click the lighting
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layer and assign whatever you want to it
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on this PC I've got lots of software to
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control lighting from all the different
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manufacturers I may have some sort of
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conflict in here I've got it all kind of
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shut down or I did anyways but even with
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that with everything shut down I've
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still had kind of a hard time getting it
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to go but this is the integration and
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this is the way that I personally would
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use it and a compelling reason to maybe
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buy an Asus motherboard um I believe
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maybe this will work with MSI as well
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but I need to explore that
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is if you could control the internal
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lighting elements with this that would
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be really cool because oftentimes that's
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the only thing I need like on my main PC
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over here that's got a gigabyte
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motherboard in it I've got to use the
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gigabyte software to just control that
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internal uh lighting element let me know
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in the comments below if you've used the
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corser integration uh for Asus
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motherboards and whether it's worked for
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you let's go back to tools real quick
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now one thing I want to talk about real
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quick is you get just basic fan control
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here if you go back to the dashboard all
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you really get is silent standard turbo
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and full speed but that's it you don't
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get any fan curves or anything in here
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in order to get more control over it you
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need to install this AI Suite so let's
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go back over to
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tools uh over to utility and let's
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install AI Suite but once you get AI
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Suite opened it gives you a number of
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different things you can do but fan
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control is the one thing I wanted to
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talk about and you get this fan expert
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for over here and from here you can
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control all the different headers on
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your motherboard AO pump chassis fan 3
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chassis fan 2 one uh yours is going to
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vary depending on what motherboard
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manufacturer you have now it wants me to
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do the fan tuning section runs the fans
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at vary different speeds to try to get
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an idea of what the minimum and maximums
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are out there but it gives you all the
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hot Keys here and then of course you can
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tune the fans and it looks like this
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screen's going to be in your way until
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you actually go do it and of course you
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get some profiles and things like that
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that you can do uh let's go to Fan
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chassis I think this was on
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three but if you then come in here you
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can highlight one of these two windows
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and from here you can come into the
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graphs and you can kind of adjust and
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create your own custom curves you can
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change the fan spin up time spin down
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time and you'll determine on and there's
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a couple of other little things you can
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do here you you can actually adjust
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these now there's AI Suite has a couple
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of other different functions which we're
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not really going to go to I really just
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wanted to show you the fan expert here
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so just be aware of that that that's
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where this is I hope that's helped you
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make a decision whether you want to use
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Asus motherboards for RGB control let me
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know in the comments below what you
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think about that what your experiences
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with it are and uh that is going to do
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it for today thanks for watching
