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Review on Corsair Icue Mid Tower Smart Black by Mark Green

Revainrating 4 out of 5

You need real instructions.

When I removed the back cover I thought I was looking at Medusa, only ten times worse. The first photo is actually after I cleaned things up a bit. (That doesn't even include the big bag of a dozen or so cables that came with the power supply.) The two small interconnect boards weren't mentioned in the case manual or in the videos I saw. I had no idea what they were for and where to put them. They had open glue on one side. This is the first time I've seen anything that uses glue to stick an item to a surface that came without the plastic attached to prevent things from being glued (and vice versa). The "manual" contains pictures of how the plates are made. outside the case, which wasn't that hard to figure out on my own, but the big problem is that the case is designed for different motherboards, so it can't tell exactly where the wires should go. Likewise, mobo makers can work in a variety of cases, so they can't be specific either. Thank goodness YouTube videos only help if they use the same hardware as yours, and even if the video is a year old, chances are the creators made changes to things that are no longer used. matching video. My old system had 3 monitors and each of them ran a different video. So if one was confused as to where something went, I would stop and try the others. I'm stuck with 3 remaining USB cables and decided without turning them on. Once I was sure it would work I went back and did a cord clean, but when I found the back panel didn't fit anymore and I needed to do something with the large power cord I didn't. for now. The bezel covering the I/O ports is rather thin and doesn't fit snugly into the phone's I/O ports. I've included a picture of the I/O ports to help you identify them when trying to connect to them in the dark.

Pros
  • External Components
Cons
  • Expensive