Corsair iCUE LT100 Smart Lighting Towers Review

Performance

Obviously, you don’t want them sticking up in front of your screen like this, but once you’ve got them plugged into the bases, simply find a cool place to put them.

My desk is in a corner and space is a bit tight as I have my monitor wall mounted too. However, with a more open desk, you could place them facing from behind your monitor or around it. I opted for the left wall and the other shining on the foam to the right.

The lights are fantastic when it comes to colour reproduction and even when projecting at a range of over a foot, there’s clear colour separation in the beams that hit the wall. The rainbow effect is lovely and again, you can really see a good fade and mixture between the LEDs.

You can see the light projects well though, as it catches the foam under my monitor too, giving me good ambient lighting all around my display.

The base unit lights are really vibrant too, giving you the upfront effect, but in a way that isn’t particularly in your face.

You can have them pointing at the wall, or even off to the side like this.

Fancy a change? PULL IT OUT OF THE BASE!

Turn it 180 degrees, and plug it back in. It’s as simple as that. Now you can light up your face for those funky RGB selfies. Throw a couple of these around a big desk and studio and it’ll look bloody awesome on Twitch. Especially given the range of effects it has. More on that soon.

The other cool thing is that headset stand. It’s an S shape plastic mount that sits on top of either one of the lights. Then simply hang your headset, neat.

There’s a lot of built in effects, and you don’t have to make do with the moving rainbow effect only.

You can set your favourite colours.

How about a rain drop effect?

Or the marquee lighting.

Basically, you’ve got over 90 little lights and you can tell each of them to do whatever you like. Personally, I’m not THAT obsessed, so the built-in presets will more than get the job done.

Software

This is where the magic happens. It’s the same software you’ll use for Corsair fans, keyboards, etc. Here you can pick from the HUGE range of options for the lights. Plus every profile can be customised extensively and I’m sure the forums will fill up with custom stuff soon too.

How about a temperature monitor? Here you can see a dropdown and I can have the lights change based on the temperature of my motherboard, RAM, CPU, GPU, etc.

Some of the cool ones are the Audio lighting, which is basically a visual EQ. Video lighting is awesome too, as it provides matching edge lighting for whatever is on screen. This will work even better with the lightbars just behind the edges of the display.

You can also drag them from side to side on the software so that the orientation matches your usage.