Front fan color controls?

[musmuris]

Hi, Just setting up my new PC and couldn't resist trying to play with Fan colours.

The cooler has LEDs, as do the cooler's fans and these are obvious to control in the Corsair iCUE app.
The mother board then has 3 "Back plate" leds which works, and 2 RGB headers which do nothing when I try those.
Then there are 3 fans on the front of the case - which light up with colours, but I cannot find a way to control those. I'd thought maybe that would be the motherboard's headers but they do nothing when I change them. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks

Screenshot, picture and spec below:

Case
PCS PRISM-X ARGB MID TOWER CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Eight Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.7GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING WIFI (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3070 - HDMI, DP, LHR
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 530 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 7300MB/R, 6000MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1.5 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead, 1.0mm Core)
Processor Cooling
Corsair iCUE H115i ELITE CAPELLIX RGB Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Windows 11 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00003]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10/11 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 9 to 11 working days
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[TonyCarter]

If it’s not a Corsair case with Corsair fans then they won’t be controllable via iCUE.

You’d need to either use Armoury Crate (i.e. your motherboard’s software), or one of the ‘open’ RGB control softwar options.

Unfortunately Armoury Crate & iCUE don’t play well together.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Nice system

There are some open source alternatives to the manufacturer solutions that tend to play nicer with lots of different manufacturers as @TonyCarter says.

The two options that some of our members use are OpenRGB and SignalRGB, they may take a little getting used to but are both well supported and updated.

I'd avoid Armory Crate where you can, aside from issues with RGB, it can cause system instability.

 

[musmuris]

If it’s not a Corsair case with Corsair fans then they won’t be controllable via iCUE.

Oh well! (kinda wish they had said at build time to give the option to change - I spent some time checking the motherboard would work with ARGB, and was going to get a PCS cooler but was suggested to get corsair one) Not the end of the world - The aesthetics are a nice to have but it's the function I want more!

Nice system

Thanks!

The two options that some of our members use are OpenRGB and SignalRGB, they may take a little getting used to but are both well supported and updated.

Thanks - will try one of those

 

[Martinr36]

You could replace the case fans with corsair fans and wire them into the commander core that comes with the cappelix cooler, then you could control them through Icue, some explanation in this post

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