My experience was as follows: After unboxing, I dissected my Alienware Aurora R6 (circa 2017), and removed both 120 mm fans while taking care to preserve the correct orientation of both. The top case fan is held in by rubber fan pieces which break when stretched too far. So, I had to order a 10 pack of those. Would have been nice in addition to 12 screws, maybe provide four of the rubber pieces. The second fan had no fasteners. My case doesn't have space for a third fan. I carefully wired everything in, and tried a few locations to stick on the hub and splitter. See, the 6-fan splitter isn't shown in any of the produce photos, but it's included. The hub and splitter are tiny plastic parts which receive various connectors. My first try of sticking the hub and splitter (using the supplied double sided adhesive pads) wasn't a success, so I had to pry them off. While prying off the hub with my fingers, the hub's cover broke off and the guts fell out. Panic! The hub's cover was easily snapped back into place after a little surgery to rescue the guts. I finally found a good spot inside the case to stick on the parts, and managed the cables to prevent them from going into the spinning fans. Next problem was the hub comes with a mini USB to female USB 2.0 9-pin header. I was saddened to learn that my MoBo doesn't have any spare 2.0 usb headers. There might be some near the I/O shield, but they're soldered under metal covers, and therefore used by the ports in the back. You also need 2 SADA.power connectors which come off the power supply. I had at least two empty ones. To solve my USB 2.0 problem, i did some research and found a $35 PCIe card which has two USB 3.0 male 9-pin headers. In a second search, I found two dongles which convert the USB 3.0 male to USB 2.0 9-pin male (are you with me?). Those are $5/ea, so another $45 amazon order. I made sure to get prime because everything else is taking weeks to deliver. In retrospect, I don't know why I even ordered two of the dongles, when I only needed one. I took a nap to sleep off the headache this gave me, and when I woke up, I had an epiphany. Rather than use the supplied mini-USB cable that came with it, I could buy a mini-USB to regular USB cable, and run it through the back of the case and into an available port. So I canceled the order (no issues there) and ordered a simple 3 foot cable for $5. $40 saved! We will see how it goes when the new cable comes. I hope it's the correct type. The RGB lights work without it, but I'm not able to control them in iCUE without the USB connection. The standard RGB pattern without iCUE is a rainbow pattern. During this process I also installed Corsair RGB ram sticks, which I can't see without the side cover taken off. Those also can be controlled with iCUE, and were recognized immediately. Finally, the iCUE controls my Corsair gaming mouse. So all of my Corsair products will be controlled by iCUE, and the Ailenware case RGB lighting is controlled by the Ailenware console. My preferred color is blue for everything, so I set up themes in both softwares.
