A Reddit user's innocent cable question exposed a deeper divide between what component manuals say and what experienced builders actually do—and the cooling system maker's silence has become its answer.
A user who installed an iCUE LINK TITAN 360 RX LCD Liquid CPU Cooler asked a narrowly technical question: Is it safe to power the iCUE Hub using the pigtail 6-pin connector from a GPU power cable? The query, posted this week on Reddit, reads as a routine beginner's concern about component safety. But the thread it produced is anything but routine. The question landed in a community that has been quietly arguing about this exact wiring pattern for years, and the responses show how much the terms of that argument have hardened .
The Reddit thread reveals two epistemologies colliding over a cable. One group of commenters treats the manufacturer's printed warning as the sole valid source of truth—if the manual says do not daisy-chain power cables, then daisy-chaining is unsafe regardless of real-world results . The other group treats years of unbroken operation across multiple builds as the relevant data set, dismissing the manual as legal cover rather than engineering guidance . Both groups are sincere. Both believe they are being responsible. Neither can prove their case to the other because each accepts a different kind of evidence as authoritative. The result is not a disagreement but a failure of shared premises .
Corsair, the company that manufactures both the cooler and the iCUE Hub ecosystem, did not reply to the thread . That silence is more consequential than any answer the company could have given. An official response—even a cautious one—would have set a floor under the argument by establishing what the manufacturer considers safe. Instead, the thread became a space where both interpretations could claim equal legitimacy, because no authority intervened to demote either one. For a builder who arrived looking for a single correct answer, that vacuum is the most confusing outcome of all .
The deeper dynamic here is not about Corsair's documentation quality but about what any hardware manual can realistically communicate. A printed guide must set conservative limits that cover worst-case scenarios across every possible system configuration. Experienced builders know this and calibrate accordingly. New builders take the spec at face value. The thread is the point where those two reading strategies meet and fail to reconcile. Neither strategy is wrong in isolation—they are optimized for different forms of safety: compliance versus survival. The original poster was asking which form of safety to prioritize, and the thread could not answer because the community itself has not settled the question .
The story so far
A Corsair cooling system user's innocent wiring question exposed a community split that the manufacturer's silence reinforces: the spec readers and the field practitioners now dismiss each other's authority, and the original poster received conflicting answers with no way to adjudicate between them.
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