Not content material with cramming RGB lighting into each attainable PC product on the planet, Corsair have now began making rainbow-infused ambient lighting towers to plonk in your desk, as a result of why the hell not?
Dubbed the LT100 Smart Lighting Tower, this mildly preposterous chunk of aluminium is now accessible as a single ‘expansion’ tower and a two-strong starter equipment for £60 / £130 of your respective British kilos (as a result of, come on, let’s be critical, you’ll be able to’t begin with simply certainly one of these items apparently, simply consider the symmetry!). Each one will come geared up with 46 customisable RGB LEDs inside them that may be synchronised with all of your different Corsair iCue ins and outs for optimum rainbow impact, and should you’re questioning why the starter equipment prices greater than two enlargement towers put collectively, it’s in all probability as a result of the starter equipment comes with an non-compulsory headset relaxation within the field, so you’ll be able to dangle your headset on it while you’ve completed enjoying games for the day.
Standing 422mm tall, Corsair proudly proclaim that every LT100 tower may have a “reversible orientation that can be faced forward for brighter, more vivid lighting” in addition to a “backward [orientation] for subtler illumination that plays off the walls of your space”. They may even mimic the colors on the sting of your gaming monitor, too – a bit like Philips’ Ambilight screens which have built-in LEDs on the again of the show. Personally, I’ve at all times discovered such makes an attempt to “expand the action beyond the edge of your screen” to be intensely distracting, if solely since you’ve nonetheless bought an enormous black bezel getting in the way in which of every thing. That and, , I need to be sure that my eyes don’t get burnt out of their sockets by the point I attain my mid-30s.
Alas, Corsair say that you would be able to solely have a most of 4 towers in use at anybody time (simply in case you have been hoping to deck out your room with a whole wall of them or one thing), however it is possible for you to to regulate the lighting of every tower independently utilizing Corsair’s iCue software program. Alternatively, should you can’t be bothered to faff round with all of that, every tower will include 11 preset lighting profiles straight out of the field that you would be able to cycle via with the contact of a button.
So congratulations, Corsair. You’ve carried out it. You’ve formally reached peak RGB. With your multi-coloured circumstances, coolers, RGB strips, RAM, keyboards, headsets, mice, mouse pads and now these lighting towers, I don’t assume there’s something left to light up. I suppose your SSDs and energy provides are perhaps missing in a little bit of rainbow colouring, however it’s all proper, you’ll be able to cease now. I offer you permission.
