Corsair iCUE Nexus Review
iCUE Software Part One
The software gives you screens setup for your Corsair peripherals by default. It’s a nice touch and a good start. We wanted to change the background, and that’s easy to do albeit with a tiny fly-out box. Unfortunately that’s the only customisation you can do of these default screens. You can’t change the order, or the font, or the text colour. So dark backgrounds are your only real option.
If you use one of the supplied templates then you can have a setup which looks like it does in the Corsair advertising, although it’s worth noting that it’s just an image. You have to place a button on top of that image, configure it to do what you want it to do, and then delete both the text and the icon so that it looks as swish as it does in the advertising. Should you change your mind you will need to edit the image in an external program and then reload it back into iCUE to fix, so I hope you chose your six options wisely.
In the Stream Deck if you want to assign a button to load something you pick the slot, drag the load action onto it, pick the file and it pulls the name and icon in straight away. On the Nexus to do the same you pick the file, pick one of the icons you can see on this screen here – no custom ones are possible, nor does it pull the icon from the EXE, and that’s it. You better hope one of these icons is useful…
Monitoring isn’t quite all we expected either. I have Corsair RAM, which isn’t able to be monitored here. You can check on the voltage, loadings and temperatures of your CPU and GPU, as well as temperature monitoring for your motherboard. None of the lables can be edited though, and neither can the colours. We’ll show you that on the next page, so read on dear reader.
The only widgets supplied are for system monitoring. That’s it. No network monitoring, or RAM usage, or FPS, or or or. If it was any more threadbare it would be transparent.
