AMD Wraith Prism works alongside ASUS Aura.
AMD Wraith Prism works alongside ASUS Aura.
I just upgraded to an AMD 2700X with an ASUS ROG Crosshair VII Hero. I'm new to RGB and wanted to know how to sync the RGB wraith prism with the ASUS Aura. Do I need a separate RGB cable for the cooler? Thanks!
The cooler is designed with a fan header out of the box. It includes two additional detachable cables, but I assumed the Aura compatibility wouldn’t require them since I thought it would be unnecessary. Confirm if this is correct.
This setup uses a single cable for the fan and another for the lights. The third cable's purpose isn't clear yet.
There are three cables connected: one for the CPU fan, one for the RGB header to sync with software like Aura Sync or similar, and a third for USB to control the cooler's RGB lights via Cooler Master's software. The RGB ring remains unchanged. You don't need to connect both RGB and USB cables together; if you do, only the RGB header functions while the USB side is active. Essentially, you have a choice between syncing the RGB with the motherboard or using standalone USB software for the RGB.
From what I gathered about this cooler, the USB cable offers more options but you must use CoolerMaster software with it. This lets you manage the logo, ring, and fan separately. The Aura Sync cable only affects the fan color, keeping the logo and ring fixed in rainbow. You can only use one cable at a time; if both are connected, only the USB works with CoolerMaster software. For a tidy appearance with your build, using the USB and CoolerMaster's software is recommended. Ideally, all LEDs should support Aura Sync and display independently. However, CoolerMaster seems to have forced the installation of their software, which is the only drawback I see.
You own the Wraith Prism yourself. The cable connected to the cooler is only for the fan. The remaining four pin connectors fit into the bottom of the cooler and connect a 12V RGB cable to your motherboard's RGB header. The third cable is an addressable RGB or ARGB cable that goes into the motherboard's ARGB header. You're also experiencing issues with sync, so this might help. Consider trying SignalRGB.
I'm replying here, although an old thread, its quite in the line of what I'm experiencing. so lets begin from the first day, End of November of last year, I got the first batch of pieces for my computer, ram, cpu, motherboard, psu, M.2 drives, mouse. and in February this year, I brought the rest of the hardware I needed for the upgrade of my computer, which was video card, monitor, chair and more ram. I kept the rest of the hardware I had, which was keyboard, screens, video card, ssd drives, case, headset, etc. So my new rig had at that time the following Hardware. Asus ROG Strix x570-e gaming wifi AMD Ryzen 7 3700x 8-Core processor (AM4) AMD Wraith Prism cpu cooler 4 x 8GB Corsair DDR4 Vengance LPX 3200 (2 x 16Gb kits) Asus ROG Strix AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT 8GB 2 x 1TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus M.2 drives (main OS, 2ndary Games) EVGA B5 Series 850w PSU Bronze Asus TUF monitor VG32VQ1B 32 inches curved as main screen, an old samsung syncMaster SA300 as 2ndary and another of the same as 3rd screen (yes 3 screens) Logitech G502 Hero gaming mouse 2 old SSD PNY 250Gb each in a raid0 array (464GB usable) super Old, Thermaltake fulltower case and a racing chair (Respawn 110 v1 RSP-110-WHT) as to software, Windoze 11 64 bits, and some not too tough games, as I am not really that much of a gamer. at first everything went great, motherboard, cooler and video card were in perfect sync, so there was no problem, but It kept bugging me that I couldn't control the ring nor the logo colors, yet I didnt do much about it, it was kind of "oh well its out of my hands" thought so although it bugged me a bit, I just let it be. About 5 weeks ago, a friend told me "yo bro, get the cooler master prism software, and connect the cooler through the USB cable instead of the rgb one and you'll be able to customize your cooler's colors and shit" and as curious as I was, that almost forgotten thought about the nagging "bothersome thing" that was at the very back of my head, it just popped up and screamed at me "GO FOR IT AND DO EEEEEET". so I did it, powered off the pc ,plugged the usb cable into the cpu (keep in mind that I left the rgb cable on too, which could have been bad who knows, the cpu cooler works and the colors works its just abusively out of sync), booted back into windoze, installed the coolermaster app, and watched some youtube vids on how to get things with nice effects and crap by controlling the speeds of the RGB color leds, and for a time, it was good , amazing even I was so happy with the newfound control Ihad over my cpu cooler, that I didnt even bother with the "out of syncness" that was present, I just enjoyed the "still fins effect" that I could achieve by switching some colors to be slower or faster, on some transitions, so the "fan" appeared as if it rotated absurdly slow, because you could see the shape of each fin, so it was cool, beautiful and entertaining to watch for a while, until well it was not, that "out of syncness" struck me bad, so I went back into the app, hit "reset to default" and "it seemed as if it was reset to default (ring and logo went back to how they were, etc), powered off the pc, removed the USB cable, and booted back in, launched the armoury crate and asked it to sync the 3 components (motherboard, video card and cpu cooler), and here it is, absurdly out of sync. so my question is, does someone, by some chance of life, has the very very default settings on EVERY SETTING of the prysm? be it in a file loadable by the cooler master app, or a screenshot or noted it down, so I can attempt to "manually" set it to how it is supposed to be, so it goes back to be in sync with the rest of the hardware? because now, no matter what I do, it just wont sync up with the rest of the hardware. any and all help is very highly appreciated and welcome. this is a youtube video of how it was "in sync" with even the desktop through the aura desktop thingy.