Asus would not have minded releasing the R6E/R6A earlier, but it is to Intel's advantage if Asus' flagship mobos were released later so buyers would consider stepping up to the higher-core i9s for use with Asus' two higher-performance flagships, instead of buying the 7900X if Asus had released the mobos sooner. If this was a gambling casino, I would place all my bets on the Apex/Extreme being released somewhere between August 28 (when the 12-core i9-7920X is released) and September 25 (when the 14/16/18C i9s are released).Īn Asus Middle East press release mentioned a release date of "First Week of September" (which was the first Asus press release that mentioned a release date), many of the retail sites' "available on" dates seem to be clustered around Aug 28 or Aug 31, and I believe that it was not just a coincidence that Asus formally announced their Apex/Extreme at the same time as Intel announced their other 12/14/16/18-core i9 CPUs, and I think that Intel partnered with Asus to synchronize the release of the mobos with their other i9 CPUs in September. I am still going by my release date speculations that I previously made in several August 13 posts where I also mentioned: Besides since this release is taking so long I've almost spent all the funds on fan dancers and adult beverages. I'm pretty much done waiting as well and got tired of anticipating. I've been married for 14 years, so now she travels with friends, lucky me. This is assuming the LEDs do not have some propriatary controler sitting between them and the RGB connector.
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I do not know to what extent the Aura software provides support for using this header, but a controlling a strip of WS2812b LEDs should be the same as a fan full of them.
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Can you write C code to program the Arduino firmware yourself? Here are two links for the Arduino and a YouTube tutorial of wiring and programming the Arduino AVRĥv, ground, and data are all that are needed to control an addressable WS2812b which is provided with the addressable header on the R6. So you can only either control the HD120 RGBs using Corsair Link or you have to do what Charixfox did and use a programmable Arduino AVR controller, and do your own wiring and soldering. There is an Aura SDK, but Corsair provides no SDK for their Corsair Link, which would have given you low-level access to the HD120 RGB controller. The problem is that you cannot control the HD120 RGBs from the mobo or from Aura. The 4-1 pin ADD_HEADER on the R6E mobo works with WS2812b RGB LED strips, which are the LEDs used on the HD120. In my case, although I am proficient in C programming, I decided that the effort-to-reward ratio was too high, and I could think of many better ways to spend my time.įirst of all, Corsair's HD120s are not Aura-compatible if you wanted to sync them and link them to Aura. For example, if you want the lights to chase each other across different HD120 fans and rebound back, each of those effects have to be specifically programmed.Īdafruit refers to the WS2812 LEDs as "NeoPixels":Īnd they offer their own Arduino NeoPixel libraryĪnd some very basic Arduino code samples: But I think he knows that this is a high-maintenance project that will require tons of extra programming to have it even come remotely close to being plug-n-play without him being inundated with technical support questions. Many people have asked Charixfox to sell his Arduino setup as a prepackaged hardware and firmware bundle. There is also an open-source AVR C library:Ĭharixfox posted the Arduino firmware code that he used to program his HD120 demo here: Can you write C code to program the Arduino firmware yourself? Here are two links for the Arduino and a YouTube tutorial of wiring and programming the Arduino AVR: "nothing more than a custom adapter" is oversimplifying things just a little :) I exchanged a number of emails with that "Charixfox" several months ago after using six HD120s in a Corsair 570X build, and I was curious about duplicating his music-dancing RGB light show.įirst of all, Corsair's HD120s are not Aura-compatible if you wanted to sync them and link them to Aura. As we are getting individual addressing RGB, this means that (in theory) we will be able to control Corsair HD120 RGB fans (thanks to the research of this man ()) with nothing more than a custom adapter.