Corsair and Gigabyte have announced a partnership to support each other’s hardware customisations. Soon users will be able to control their system’s lighting through the app they prefer.
Starting this month Corsair peripherals and Gigabyte hardware featuring RGB lighting will offer customisation options via both Corsair iCUE and Gigabyte GCC software. This means you no longer have to use both apps at the same time to control your effects. In other words, you can control Corsair headsets, keyboards, mice, etc, through GCC, and Gigabyte motherboard LEDs via iCUE. This interaction will also allow you to natively sync both brands’ product lighting effects easily through your favourite app.
Although you won’t need to actively use both apps anymore, you sadly can’t uninstall any of them. It’s unclear if you must have both running simultaneously, but you’ll need to install all June updates for the implementation to work.
Gigabyte didn’t indicate if these controls will be limited to its motherboards or include its peripherals and RGB RAM too. We don’t see a reason to limit the product support list and assume most if not all hardware with addressable RGB should work via both apps. On the Gigabyte side, this officially includes graphics cards, RAM, AIO coolers, and maybe even chassis. As for Corsair, we have peripherals, RAM, fans, coolers, chassis, and even mouse pads.
This marks the first such collaboration for Gigabyte, with plans to bring its products’ controls to other programs later. Corsair on the other hand also supports Asus, MSI, Philips Hue, Nanoleaf, and Govee hardware, enabling users to build the ultimate light show. While we would have liked both brands to introduce their controls to open-source apps, this is still a good step towards user freedom.
This is just one of the many announcements this Computex. Corsair also has a new Custom Lab where you can design your own peripherals, while Gigabyte has a lot going on with the world’s first white reversed cable motherboard and AI-powered laptops making it to market.