I’ve never seen anything quite like Hyte’s new Nexus Link ecosystem. Corsair has its iCue Link system, and Lian Li has its magnetic Uni system, and all three companies are now offering ways to tie together your PC cooling and lighting devoid of extraneous cables. But Hyte’s marriage of hardware, software, and accessories is in a league of its own — and it transformed my PC build completely.
Practically speaking, none of this makes the Q60 a better CPU cooler, but it speaks to the quality and attention to detail you feel out of the box. Hyte even uses this spotted pattern for the thermal paste . Everything feels premium. That’s about 400 words spent on an AIO, and we haven’t even talked about its display. If you weren’t able to tell by my photos, the Thicc Q60 comes with a 5-inch IPS display that covers the mounting block. It floats above your motherboard, and you can display just about anything you want. I’ll get into all of the options later, but if the fantastic cooling potential wasn’t enough to set the Thicc Q60 apart, the display certainly is.
In Hyte’s Nexus Link ecosystem, the Thicc Q60 is a “Primary Node.” It enables two-way communication between the Nexus Link app and your hardware. Off of this single cable, you can connect up to 18 devices in a chain, none of which require separate cables. Hyte’s FP12 fans connect to each other magnetically, and its LS10 and LS30 RGB light strips have USB-C connections on both ends, allowing you to feed them off of or into the chain.
Linking Nexus Bringing everything together is the Nexus Link app, which is much more in-depth than it looks at first glance. I’ve had a chance to try the app previously when I looked at the Hyte Y70 Touch, and although it was impressive then, I didn’t get a chance to fully explore what it had to offer.
Thankfully, that’s not the case elsewhere. Lighting customization has a ton of options, with multiple layers, preset animations, audio visualization, and even screen matching. Hyte’s approach to lighting customization is very unique, however. You’ll see the effect as a rectangle on your screen, and within it, you have a resizable “Universe” window. This selects the area that you want to move across your lighting, creating a cohesive look.