The Best RGB RAM – Final Answer
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,078 words · ~5 min read
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some of you think RGB lighting is cool
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Ed and you wear your RGB Pride on your
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sleeve some of you are closet RGB lovers
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hiding your secret passion under the blanket some of you couldn't be more
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different from those people some of you
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hate RGB you call it pointless stupid
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cancer but whether you're sitting there ready to throw your wallet at your
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screen or your palm at your forehead there's
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one thing you all have in common right now a burning curiosity about who makes
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the best RGB computer memory on the
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market and I have the
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answer Synergy is the amazing software
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that lets you share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers
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check it out now at the link in the video
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description for a company whose copypaste game is so weak that their
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website actually contains references to kual channel memory the marketing spin
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on G's Evo X is actually very good they
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boast that their hilm approach enables
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Dynamic RGB lighting without any
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performance or stability penalty because
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it separates the RGB lighting components
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from the rest of the PCB and their use
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of a standard four pin connector means
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across the board get it compatiability
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with software lighting control across
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any CPU type motherboard or even
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breakout control box like the ones cable mod includes with their case lighting
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kits and they even include four basic
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presets on a little switch if you want to power it from the other side of the
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module off a 9V or a 12volt fan header
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all of that makes a lot of sense in my mind so I
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get wait a minute this is just an RGB
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strip taped to a normal RAM module I
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mean they couldn't even get the thing to sit on there straight and that ignores
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that you will need power or Force pin
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RGB leads running to every individual
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module a cable management
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nightmare what the evox does have going
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for it is that top to bottom J's lineup
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passes the R&D savings directly to the consumer coming in by far the cheapest
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out of all our RGB RAM with a wide range
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of capacities and speeds available though only a handful of them were in
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stock at Newegg Corsair's Vengeance RGB ddr4 represents
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a significant Step Up in cost but in
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return you get a whole lot more product
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development they not only custombuilt their modules to allow the RGB lights to
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be powered directly from the memory slot
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but they actually built their RGB controller with storage that allows you
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to change your lighting effects through the OS the memory section of link isn't
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especially comprehensive but I'd say most of the important bases are covered
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breathing pulsing shifting And Delay
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adjustments for dim to- dim animations with brightness adjustments apparently
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coming soon and Corsair gets credit for
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learning from their experience launching the k70 RGB keyboard it's really easy to
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use this time another nice touch is that Corsair allows you to flip your light
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bar cover so that the logos are all aligned on x99 boards overall
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compatibility is pretty darn good with both MSI Mystic flare and Gigabyte RGB
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Fusion working on Intel and supported in
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beta on ryzen though that doesn't fully make up
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for the product lineup that's limited to 8 gig modules or the lack of support for
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ASUS AA sync especially when you consider
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the price par with G skills equivalent
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spec Trident Z RGB
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kits this stuff is bananes they managed
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to power the RGB lighting effects
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through the dim slot just like Corsair
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they worked evidently with a Seuss as
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far as I can tell on their comprehensive RGB lighting Control software the
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interface is nearly identical to Ara
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and they threw in individually addressable LEDs to take their Swagger
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to a whole other level so you can run
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breathing pulsing flashing rainbow
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effects and so much more on individual
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dims or synced up between multiple ones
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the software is all still beta and
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programming it is a little unintuitive and tedious but but it's pretty darn
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rewarding as long as you've got a compatible system Intel and AMD are
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supported on Aus with MSI ASRock and
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Gigabyte support still pending but to
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their credit they have a huge variety of products available all the way up to
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3600 MHz high density kits with 16 gig
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dims that is to say if you're willing to
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pay more than twice what G charges for
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their RGB kits on a per gig
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basis so bottom line then G's solution
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while not much of an engineering step up from gluing an RGB strip to the top of
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your memory module is inexpensive and
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boasts the strongest compatibility with older systems and off-the-shelf lighting
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control kits gskill is the most featur
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rich but relies on more limited platform
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support for anything but the stock rainbow wave animation and coair strikes
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a fine balance between broader compatibility and eliminating cable
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clutter so the answer then to the big
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question as usual is I guess it
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depends do you need both a Mac and a PC
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for the different tasks that you do or do you have your own home computer and a
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work assigned laptop that you need to use at the same time well forget about
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having two keyboards and two mice that's stupid Synergy allows you to share one
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mouse and keyboard between two or more
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computers so you'll no longer get confused about which keyboard or Mouse
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is for which and it even works across multiple operating systems Windows Mac
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and Linux there's a basic and a pro
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version with one-time payment and lifetime access to features like a
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clipboard that shares between the computers dragging and dropping files
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between the computers the ability to set up hot keys and more you can use our
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Link in the video description to save 10% on Synergy
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today so thanks for watching if you guys dislike this video you can hit that
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