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CORSAIR iCUE NEXUS Companion Touch Screen Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2020-07-31

iCUE NEXUS is a quite unique and useful accessory which takes very little space and can be mounted as well right onto compatible CORSAIR keyboards. It packs a 5‘‘ 640x48 resolution screen which has a decent color reproduction (6 bit), while additional functionality is offered via the touch capabilities. The touch interface is quite responsive and we can easily create custom buttons for accessing various game/software functions and for eye candy we are also able to set custom backgrounds for it.

The buttons can be mixed with hardware monitoring widgets or we can use it exclusively for hardware monitoring as well. By simply swiping in both directions (left/right), we can access more than 200 programmable screens, which can be customized from the iCUE unified software. If iCUE is not resident in memory in order to drive the display, the iCUE NEXUS will enter demo mode, by cycling through some animations.

Packaging, A Closer Look Part I

In this article we will concentrate our attention upon another interesting hardware item from CORSAIR, and to be more exact the iCUE NEXUS. This is a small screen with touch capabilities driven by the unified iCUE software that can allow the user to access customizable functions via buttons, but also run widgets for displaying live hardware information. Each configurable screen can hold up to six buttons and we can work with more than 200 screens by simply swiping the screen in the desired direction.

The product is shipped inside a very compact cardboard packaging, with a triangle pattern on the outside layer; the frontal area does show how the unit will look like if mounted to a supported keyboard but also notifies the user that iCUE is required to run in order for the screen to operate, otherwise it will remain in „demo“ mode:

On the side of the box, we will get to see CORSAIR’s „Get Connected“ saying:

A photo of the product in operation can be seen on the opposite side as well:

On the back, CORSAIR does show examples of different programmable screens, a list of the main product features in different languages, the mounting modes of the iCUE NEXUS but also the box contents via drawings:

The packaging does also come with details on the product internal code name and its serial number:

After removing the top packaging layer, we will end up with an all-black box:

Let’s see what we do have inside!

First, we will spot the Warranty Guide but also the Quick Start Guide, in multiple languages:

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