It's a shame Lian Li has yet to go truly all-out with the Strimer range by offering support for the 8-pin (4+4) cable used to power the CPU through top-left connections on the motherboard. Source: Rich Edmonds / Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Rich Edmonds / Windows Central) Installation is fairly straightforward as all the cables are preset with combs. It is possible to bridge the Lian Li hub to your motherboard and control all the RGB lights through your BIOS (or motherboard software). The Strimer Plus V2 cables all connect to the hub that's included with the 24-pin ATX kit, which itself requires a SATA power connection. Interestingly, the triple 8-pin cable has the highest number of addressable LEDs present, so if you're wanting the brightest light show on offer, be sure to have a GPU that requires considerable power. In terms of dimensions, the ATX 24-pin cable extension comes in at 247mm long. The end result is impressive, even if your PC case is already packed full of RGB-enabled devices. Lian Li bundles a white LED diffuser end and assembly clips that can replace the preinstalled black clips for a better matching PC case design. However, I needed a “splitter” to share this signal with the UNI fans.The dual 8-pin GPU cable we received rocks a new design that sees it almost split in two to make it easier for connecting to GPUs where the 8-pin ports are a little more awkward to get to. I used the 5-volt, 3-pin addressable RGB headers on my motherboard to control my Lian Li Galahad AIO cooler and Strimer cables. And every possible combination of rebooting, reinstalling, unplugging, and replugging things imaginable.Updating the controller firmware using Lian Li’s guidebook (I never got this to work).Running all software packages as Administrator.Uninstalling all generic USB hubs from device manager.Three different Lian Li UNI controllers.Updated all components (software, BIOS, etc.).I spent hours browsing forums and trying the following fixes: The system would not recognize it, and I couldn’t use L-connect (or version 2) to control the SL120 UNI fans. Roughly half the time I spent building my new Windows 11 gaming battle station (“Ghost”) went toward troubleshooting the Lian Li UNI fan controller on my Gigabyte B550 Vision D-P motherboard.

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