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CrankzWare RainPOW! 2.0 Review – RGB controller, intelligent fan control, image controlled monitor backlight and much more

EyeLight is the highlight! all you need is a sufficiently long aRGB stripe, which you stick behind the monitor, similar to Ambilight. Advantage here: 4 real pages, so 2x horizontally and 2x vertically in a row. To do this, reconnect the micro-USB port with a real data cable to a USB input of the motherboard, then a new serial device should appear in the device manager. We’ll remember its port number.

The rest is then as simple as it is full of pitfalls. You need the freeware AmbiBox (at the moment). As device you choose Adalight, in this mode the screen recording over Windows 8 works best. The FPS should not be set too high, otherwise it can flicker quickly depending on the LED. How to calculate the individual zones is in the CrankzWare quick start guide, but it is really important. AmbiBox has quite a useful check and test program, so that once everything has been detected, you can quickly get to your goal.

This software is quite stable in normal operation, but it does crack from time to time when changing some settings. Even if many values are taken over automatically and you can see the changes in real time, you still have to save them explicitly. Otherwise, you start again from the beginning when you restart.

For testing the zones, you can also use various tools such as test images or matching YouTube videos. However, a final examination before the final gluing of the strip is recommended in any case.

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