 Welcome to my review of the NZXT- NZXT Hue. This thing is relatively old, so why review it? Well, it's still interesting, and I've got a bit of a twist that you'll see if you stay tuned later on. Also, stay subscribed to LinusTechTips for more videos on unintended uses of products. The Corsair HX1200i Power Supply delivers 80-plus Platinum Efficiency for quiet performance, and Corsair Link Digital Advanced Monitoring and Control. Click now to learn more. We're going to start off tame and just do a physical product overview. It's a pretty simple piece of hardware made out of plastic for the most part, with a bit of steel meshing behind it. The core of the Corsair HX1200i Power Supply delivers 80-plus Platinum Efficiency for quiet performance, and Corsair Link Digital Advanced Monitoring and Control. There's a steel meshing behind the Faco brushed aluminum. Brushed aluminium. In front of this meshing, there are three knobs, which are respectively for brightness, power, and mode. These knobs also have individual colors, however, which are red, green, and blue, respectively. Now, I'll get into what these knobs do in a moment, but in the back of this unit, there's a SATA power connector to run everything, and a connector for your single LED strip, which is nice and long, but a little disappointing on the LED density side, with each one being quite far away from the others, which isn't exactly ideal. Okay, but back to the knobs. Basically, to change how much of a corresponding color should be shown, twist the knobs. To perform whatever label the utility of the knob is for, press it in. For example, holding press on the power knob will turn it off or on, and pressing in the mode knob will change the mode. Speaking of modes, there are five of them. Three based on a custom color, and two based on color changing. The first one is the most basic. It just emits your custom selected color steadily, and it is called custom color display. The second one is custom color flashing, and it, well, flashes your custom color. The third is custom color fading, which essentially gives your custom color a breathing effect. Then we get to flashing color changing, which will rotate these colors through while flashing. And last but not least is fading color changing, which will give a breathing effect while changing colors. And, uh, yeah, that's, that's it. In conclusion, the LED density bugs me. I'm happy enough with the available brightness modes, but my biggest gripe with this thing is that it's a bay device. Now, I don't blame it. It's from another time. It's a little aged now for how PC parts go, but even a lot of NZXT cases aren't compatible with this, as they don't have a five and a quarter inch bay anymore, which means it's adventure time. All right, so the biggest problem with this is its depth. It makes it so you can't really put it anywhere else in the computer. So the first thing that we're going to do is just try to remove it from the actual sled and see what we end up with once we take out a bunch of these screws. That's already a huge amount of useless mass removed. Well, we don't really need these arms anymore. We'll keep them for sure. We'll keep all this stuff just in case. But with these arms, it might actually be easier to use them to mount this thing on somewhere else inside the other, inside the case, but they're probably just going to be a little bit more difficult to mount. But they're probably just going to get in the way. So for now, I'm going to remove them. Now I'm going to see how much this thing actually needs the front plate. Might not really be a requirement. All right, so front plate not really needed at all. You actually see all the knobs there anyways. Everything still works. You can actually see here now that there's LEDs on the controller board. In pictures on their website, you can see through here that LEDs are shining, but now you can actually see where those LEDs are. So this now becomes way easier to put into a case anywhere you want. Now you have a much more versatile kind of PCB, which you can put pretty much wherever you want. If you decided to, you could leave that front plate on it. I kind of like the exposed PCB style, but that's obviously up to you and something that's actually really, really easy to do. So in actual conclusion, go on eBay, go on Craigslist, find a cheap one out there, hell, even maybe buy a new one. Maybe replace the LED strip and bam, with a screwdriver and some adhesive or of some sort, you have yourself an easy way to stand up from the crowd at a LAN. Are there easier or other ways to do this? Sure. And maybe I'll do some maker style videos on how to do it yourself in the future. But for now, this is easy as hell and it works. Luckily, NZXT went ahead and used black wires everywhere, so it will look good in pretty much any system no matter what you do to it. Old products might not be dead relics. They sometimes just need a little loving. Speaking of whatever Luke was talking about back when the tablecloth was a completely different color and I was a completely different... Wow, look at that. That's amazing. iFixit. So iFixit.com is the place where you can find wicked awesome guides for how to take apart and fix your electronic doodads, as well as, many people don't know this, the tools that you need to go along with them. So you go ahead, you look up a guide and iFixit, you go, well, yeah, I guess that's great in theory. If only I had like 18 suction cup doodads, a cutter and like that friggin screwdriver that... Where are you gonna find one of those? At iFixit. In fact, their ProTech Toolkit is in use by yours truly. It is one of the things I carry in my everyday backpack almost every day. 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