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hey what's up guys J soos ends here and I'm going to admit this is a video that should have come out a long time ago but I thought that this product was going to be just sort of a basic product and it turns out to be a very advanced product and one that did a lot of things I was wishing somebody would do and it's been sitting in my closet all this time J really is a dickhole with its specifically tuned copper base and maintenance free plug-and-play operations the EVGA 980ti hybrid offers ultra-fast gaming performance at the lowest temperatures possible click the link in the description for more details ok so today we are specifically going to be looking at NZXT new hue plus advanced PC illumination kit and I've actually got two of these here so immediately I want to give a huge thanks to the guys over at NZXT for sending these to me after all I did request that they send these because I wanted to do custom lighting in the 6700 K bill that I did which was that you know black s340 case which was razor themed and I wanted to put these in there but as you know I wasn't able to use because of the fact that there is no USB 2.0 headers on the z170 motherboard that I used in that build so they went back in the closet and I stopped thinking about them and I thought today well maybe we'll go ahead and check these out on the test bench holy should I check these out sooner because this is by far the coolest thing you can do to really make your PC pop and a good pop not like the electrical pop and you'll pop smoke than that that's smell of burnt money basically so they sent me two of these I got one hooked up right now for demo and as you can see here there are three strips each strip has 10 LEDs and you don't have to daisy chain them like this you can actually use two channels there are two channels on the control module that allow you to independently control what's happening with the lighting so if you wanted to have different zones of your PC with different lighting say like the basement of skunk works or something separated with like a mid plate then you could have different lighting in there if you use both channels now each channel can control 40 LEDs now each one of these strips has 10 LEDs so basic math and arithmetic will tell you that you can have four of these hooked up per channel now they only include three with the kit so that means you could buy more of these if you wanted to do more lighting but each one of these as I said have 10 LEDs as we can see right here this is what the length of 30 of these LEDs looks like it's a pretty good length it actually measures up about 3 feet it's about a foot per each one of these strips now the control box itself actually communicates with the software the cam software that you use for NZXT via USB 2.0 header on your motherboard now one of the reasons why I didn't use this was because like I said earlier the motherboard i use didn't have a USB 2.0 header now if your motherboard doesn't you could know that we're talking header on the motherboard here we're not talking about USB ports we're talking about header if your motherboard doesn't have that for whatever reason you could technically use just a standard microUSB cable because that's all it is is a microUSB to a header plug by running that through the back of your case either through a grommet or removing one of like the PCI slot covers run that to the back of your case and then you could just plug it into the motherboard through a standard USB so there are ways around it it's just not the prettiest way to do it but there are workarounds but anyway it also gets power through a 4-pin molex plug which I wish was a SATA plug because more modern pcs are using more SATA power than 4 pin molex so it would have made it a lot more tidy where you would have had to say maybe run one molex cable off your PSU just to power this thing most pcs these days are not actually using 4-pin molex so one thing I would have liked to have seen a little bit different but other than that it gives you plenty of extension cables so that you can route these as far as you want you can put extension cables between these if you wanted to extend one out somewhere else so there's a lot of flexibility in the way that this gets put together now I'm going to admit when I first saw this I thought ok it's an RGB light strip it's going to be able to do the basic stuff like like your keyboards can do with breathing or color shift or reactive or whatever marquise marquise kind of neat and it wasn't really all that exciting to me I'm like ok change colors you can do different modes a lot of people don't care about that sort of stuff let me tell you what it can do that I think is very very very cool is the fact that it can continue computer what I mean by that this LED strip can change colors based on what you set for just about anything so for instance let's say you want the colors to change based on CPU temperatures you can kind of keep track of your CPU temps visually that would be kind of neat for a test bench or even just a display CPU or PC or maybe you just want something different you can tell the colors what to do based on what temperature your CPU is or your GPU or even the frames per second that you're getting on your computer you can have the thing respond to different music so you can have music playing and have the light bouncing around in conjunction and sync with the music I mean this is really freaking awesome now this is all happening because of NZXT T's cam software now the cam software is not just a control center for NZXT products but it is going to tell you everything going on with your computer it's designed to kind of be a replacement for all of those kind of broken pieces of software that haven't been updated over time like a hardware monitor or PC wizard or whatever you can replace all those pieces of software with one this cam suite from NZXT and you can see things like individual core load on your CPU you can see core temperatures you can see your voltage is your current multipliers our current CPU speed GPU temperatures fps I mean anything happening Ram utilization Ram speed Ram timings it all shows up here and it's very easy to use it's very very simple now unfortunately it does really want you to create an online user account by using either a social media like log in to their Facebook or something like that or creating a standalone account but that's not required you can log in as a guest you do lose out on some of the online features like CPU data logging like when the computer when the software is running it's pretty much data logging what's happening with your CPU and you can go back and pop in the past and kind of look at what your PC was doing in the past is now if you're thinking man things are running hotter than I remember you could like login online and look at the history and see oh yeah my CPU is running hotter than it was so there's a lot of cool things you could do but you miss out on that by not creating an account but not creating an account doesn't stop you from using the software which obviously would have been a huge if they required you to make an account to use something you bought all right so enough chatting about it let's go ahead and do kind of a demo here of some of the lighting features there's way too much to cover and I'm not going to do a all demonstration of the software because it really kind of deserves its own video so you guys tell me if based on what you've seen here if you think you'd like a more in-depth video review of the software we can do that as well because this is something that you can use without the hue this is something you can install on your system and then if you added NZXT products then it is something that you could you know control your nzsg products as well like you know eat fans and whatever else like these are definitely going in skunk works especially since i'm uh this is just going to make the system seem that much cooler alright let's get into the demo I know the camera is not going to pick this up nearly as good as it looks in real life especially when the you know camera lenses have a hard time telling the difference between whites and blues and things like that but we are going to try anyway so here is just a plain white with fix what I do like is that it does pick up the subtle differences between some of the different colors here like you have you know you've got like a magenta color so here's magenta you've got pink there's definitely a color difference for two magenta and pink all those subtle the LEDs do it perfectly here's like a more of a lavender color here is a purple which is not showing up too well on camera dan damn it but anyway here's like a light blue here's a green and you can also change you know based on the infinite color range a spectrum here whatever colors you want but that you get the idea there so breathing is pretty basic you can choose the colors that you want add another color let's make that one let's say breathe purple so now it's going to breathe between blue and like a purple color you can choose how fast it does it let's make it fastest it's going to be like super fast so there's the color so you can add as many of those colors as you want Marc is really neat for instance you can see here you have this blue light that's kind of going around you got this comment button here which I don't know if you can tell the LEDs that are following behind it aren't lit as brightly so it kind of looks like a comment trail if you uncheck that then it's just the LEDs that it's brightest as they go by I like the comment trail it looks kind of neat if it was going to comment it had to be more of a many color comedy comedy and if that makes any sense so there we go there's our comment make it red that's more of a purple huh do red over here so you can pick any colors you want make it really dark even there's red I think that marquee looks neat here's a covering marquee here where you have two colors so for instance you can see here we have blue being covered up by green so you can make as many colors go by as you want let's make this now let's make it red so you got blue being covered by green being covered by red add as many of those as you want pulse pretty obvious it's just going to pop back up and go down pop back up or you can add another color so let's have it pulse red and yellow pop into yellow pop into red whatever you want spectrum wave this is kind of like demo mode of sort of everything you see on the keyboards everyone does you know the keyboard demonstrations are always rainbow we make it go the other way if you want so if you were to put these around your case they could be doing you know circles around your case alternating is kind of neat we can make this Christmas see if we change that blue to green BAM so we got there's like Christmas colors right there but here's the other things you've got smart here so we've got CPU temperature right so if we save that right now the colors are going to be based on our CPU temps and if I start something up like a 264 and then do a stress test here you can see the colors will change based on the stress test and it's also going to change based on where we have it set on the actual scale so you can change the colors here we've got blue is between 20 30 and 40 see purple is between 50 60 and 70 and then 80 90 and 100 are red but let's say we want red to represent full load we can just move these up move the red up or click on it change it whatever we want so now they're red because we're under low and I changed those colors so anything between 50 and 70 C shows up as red now if I was to stop the test you'll see we'll come back down to the blue pretty quickly and what's cool is it's not just going to switch between these colors directly as you saw when I started it up and when I stopped it it did do an actual blend of the color so what's blue plus red is purple see how we're going to purple so we know we're in between those ranges FPS mode this is only going to matter if it can communicate with your GPU I'm finding that the NZXT software is not communicating with my fury x very well so wasn't making any changes based on GPU so that's something worth keeping in mind you've got audio here so we put it on sync mode there's level sync and gain so like for instance if I put on gain and then I start let's say my youtube channel here but he does it with your pad that's kind of neat right what's going on all your GPU addicts you know that's have we change it to a different mode like let's say sync so that means all of the individual strips on here are doing the same thing where if we have it just by gain then all of them make one big meter as you can see so you can customize that so there you go guys that's basically the NZXT hue advanced PC illumination I think if you're looking for a way to make your system kind of unique and kind of control something custom with the lighting and know that no matter what you have the right lights for the job no matter what you want to do this is definitely a kit worth taking a look at so if you're looking for something custom when it comes to lighting in your computer this is definitely like the only place you should look NZXT had the original hue but that didn't do anything smart or custom like this where all you could do by the use of RGB dials on the front of like a five and a quarter bay you know slot was actually change the color of the lights and that was it it didn't react to sound you couldn't make it react to temperatures or anything like that so if you're looking for something cool and unique this is definitely the only place you should look in my opinion tell me what you guys are using when it comes to light so you guys have asked me for a lot of lighting tutorials do you want to see more videos like this like I said these are going into skunkworks and I think they are going to definitely fulfill the purpose that I needed when it comes to custom lighting in my system anyway guys time to get out of here tell me what you use for lights and tell me what you want to see when it comes to custom PC modding in the future when it comes to my channel and I'll do the best I can to bring you guys those videos that you think would be interesting anyway time to get outta here as always thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video