Post by thrawn on Jul 23, 2019 19:56:37 GMT
I've been using SIV for ages, but just today I noticed the Tools\Link part of the menus, and realized I could manage my Corsair AX1200i power supply over its USBXpress link dongle from within Windows XP Pro x64 Edition using SIV. Finding the SiLabs XP x64 driver for the USBXPress Link dongle was the easy part, but the Corsair Software to manage it never worked on my ancient workstation OS (Machine is X58 + Xeon X5690 + 48GiB RAM + Titan Black + Intel DC S3610 1.6TB SSD + 54TiB Areca RAID-6 w. 12×6TB HDDs). So I used to pass the Link device through to a Win7 VBox VM to change the power supply configuration (like fan speed) and read all of its sensors - not exactly an elegant solution.
I never thought I'd get any software to manage the Corsair Link part via that USBXpress interface from within XP x64 natively, but with SIV, it works wonderfully. It's much faster and less resource-hungry to do it that way. The menus are a bit too hidden I think, but hey, it works.
I'm really happy to have discovered this today, so I wanted to express my thanks to you, Mr. Hinchliffe, for implementing support for Corsair Link devices, even for deprecated operating systems!
Awesome!
PS.: I also like how it can seemingly show the correct idle clock rates of my new Ryzen 5 3600X CPU in another machine of mine! Not all tools can do that.
I never thought I'd get any software to manage the Corsair Link part via that USBXpress interface from within XP x64 natively, but with SIV, it works wonderfully. It's much faster and less resource-hungry to do it that way. The menus are a bit too hidden I think, but hey, it works.
I'm really happy to have discovered this today, so I wanted to express my thanks to you, Mr. Hinchliffe, for implementing support for Corsair Link devices, even for deprecated operating systems!
Awesome!
PS.: I also like how it can seemingly show the correct idle clock rates of my new Ryzen 5 3600X CPU in another machine of mine! Not all tools can do that.
