What is Corsair Slipstream

Corsair Slipstream is Corsair’s 2.4GHz wireless device control technology with many advanced features that surpass other products.

In the past few years, manufacturers of accessories for gamers have initially mastered wireless connection technology using radio waves at 2.4GHz with the ability to reduce latency to nearly equal to standard wired product models.

The transmitters and reception antennas are also better designed to avoid cross-interference from other radio-using devices, especially interference from strong wifi transmitters.

This pivotal development blurs the line between wired and wireless products. It blurs the technical boundaries between long-standing technology companies, making it difficult for users to choose quality wireless gaming accessories if they only experience a few common products.

In the framework of this article, I would like to introduce to readers a unique wireless technology with excellent performance, giving users more than simply high-quality wireless accessories. Currently, it also includes some interesting utilities that no other manufacturer can “imitate.”

Corsair Slipstream technology, a technology developed by the leading American component manufacturer Corsair since 2019 with many pioneering elements, shows the intense creativity of the team. Its engineers build a complete wireless ecosystem, while many other manufacturers struggle to apply their wireless technology to individual products.

CORSAIR SLIPSTREAM – PREVIOUS FEATURES

Corsair Slipstream has many similarities with other wireless technologies on the market using 2.4GHz waves today. Still, its difference lies in three fairly basic factors: strength, signal strength, bandwidth size, and signal processing capabilities are superior to many other technologies on the market today.

In particular, the ability to quickly process signals to ensure the system’s response speed is always at the forefront with a series of integrated signal processing chips developed over time developed by our engineers. The company designs and orders production separately, not in the form of “mass processing” like many wireless gaming mouse models on the market today to cut costs.

These processor chips have a special ability; they can handle two signal packets simultaneously, which is not impossible for other technology companies, but handling more signal packets requires a more powerful processor, consuming more power. Choosing the “falling point” to balance the two factors and coordinate well with the mouse design is a problem that the company’s engineers struggled with for several generations of mice before releasing this wireless connection technology.

With the ability to process two data packets simultaneously, of course, the response speed of the device will be significantly improved compared to the traditional method. In a most recent test before officially introducing Corsair Slipstream wireless connection technology to the market, the company gave an impressive test result when it achieved an average response speed of 20 taps mouse on products using this technology clocked in at just 0.867ms.

That can be easily seen from the first experimental product using this technology, the Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless, launched in early 2019 to the “king” of the current gaming wireless mouse world, Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro. Corsair has come a long way when even raising the sampling rate of the mouse from 1000Hz, equivalent to conventional high-end wired mice, to 2000Hz.

That means the company can even reduce the drink response rate to less than 0.5ms and achieve “theoretically” twice as “smooth” as conventional wired versions of gaming mice.

Doubling the data bandwidth also means that Corsair will not have to “sacrifice” the data quality of the microphone by compressing the data of this audio source to the same level as the sound quality phones. The rest spend most of the data bandwidth to show the “roundness” of the headset like how Sennheiser does with its flagship wireless headset model Sennheiser GSP 670 Wireless Gaming Headset.

Not long ago, I introduced to readers the popular wireless headset model that Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE that can reproduce the very good sound quality and deliver the same recording quality as standard headphones “mini-studio.” Thanks to the wide bandwidth that Corsair Slipstream technology provides.

Not only that, but the strong connectivity with the ability to handle two data streams simultaneously with the ability to switch thanks to the Intelligent Frequency Shift (IFS) flexibly feature also means wireless connections will be guaranteed with high stability. Even when encountering a heavy source of interference, the device can still switch frequencies immediately.

In general, thanks to independently developed techniques, products with Corsair Slipstream technology achieve the most advanced and preeminent features in the gaming accessory products on the market today. But not only that, the multi-connection feature in a new ecosystem is a feature that can make full use of this technology’s abundant limitless bandwidth, making it the flagship in creating the current wireless ecosystem.

CORSAIR SLIPSTREAM – MULTIPLE DEVICE CONNECTION

If the above features alone are not enough for you to believe that Corsair Slipstream is the most advanced connection technology available today, the ability to connect multiple devices is “unique” will make you think again.

The most familiar thing to you with conventional wireless accessory products is that they always have a signal transmitter plugged into a USB port, not to mention devices with built-in rechargeable batteries. Inside, the product also needs an additional charging cable, which makes it easy to use only a few wireless devices, and you will run out of empty USB ports on the back of the device.

To solve this problem, Corsair took advantage of Corsair Slipstream’s broadband technology, allowing multiple devices with this technology to connect through a single wireless transmitter. In particular, the company is gradually “building” the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE wireless headset model to become the center of this ecosystem when turning the headset’s transmitter into a “total” transmitter for components is different.

Users only need to follow these steps to connect multiple wireless gaming devices without only needing to “occupy” a single USB port. This article uses the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE wireless, the Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless, and the Corsair K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard model that have all been introduced to readers to test the performance.

Step 1: You need to go to this link to download the iCUE Beta driver version to start connecting.

Step 2: After installation, connect all three devices to your PC in the usual way using separate transmitters, prepare connection cables for these devices, open the iCUE driver and enter the card. “Settings. ” At this tab, click on the “Pair Additional Devices” button.

Step 3: hold the transmitter of Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE and remove the other two transmitters.

Step 4: Connect the Corsair Harpoon RGB Wireless mouse to the PC with a cable

Step 5: Connect the Corsair K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard to the PC with a cable and turn it on to the On position.

Step 6: Connect the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE headset to the PC and flip the connection switch via the item using the USB cable.

After that, you need to wait for all three devices to update to the latest firmware and “unplug” as usual with only one wireless transmitter.

It can be said that with Corsair Slipstream’s multi-device connection feature, users can fully use its wireless ecosystem with only one wireless transmitter.

The Corsair K57 RGB Wireless Gaming Keyboard keyboard model still uses a Micro USB connection instead of USB Type C like the Corsair Virtuoso RGB Wireless SE headset the new “mouse” Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro. Therefore, a certain “synchronism” has not been achieved when … plugging in the charger. Still, it is undeniable that Corsair’s “wireless ecosystem” is a strong and “unique” ecosystem today, enough to satisfy the needs of all gamers today, even the most fastidious ones.

OVERVIEW

Overall, with continuous efforts over the past years, Corsair’s engineering team has turned Corsair Slipstream into today’s leading “backbone” wireless connection technology with many advanced features, enough to satisfy the most demanding gamers’ needs even competes strongly with even the usual wired gaming accessories.

The formation of Corsair’s wireless ecosystem also marks an important turning point, opening a new direction for the world of wireless gaming accessories today.