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welcome back to harbor unboxed today's video is a look at RGB memory but hang in there because it's got liquid in it well it's not in it it's it's on top of it and this clear bit at the top here yeah it's kind of weird so in April a data announced their new spectryx dat ddr4 RGB liquid cooling memory and as the name suggests it packs both RGB lighting and liquid what more could you ask for in a set of memory modules I hate to think formally known as project jellyfish we don't know why they actually changed the name because well that is a way shorter and more catchy name in my opinion anyway spectryx dat is it and the new memory will be available in a wide range of options on hand for testing we have the 32 gigabyte ddr4 3600 packing four modules in total I've got another one here and I've got one that I pulled apart and they are rated for CL 17 18 18 timings at 1.3 5 volts design-wise they are unusual as you might expect the profile though is pretty typical for your more high-end memories they stand forty six point six millimeters tall so very similar to the g.skill Sniper X memory for example when it comes to sort of the more technical stuff a data doesn't really give away too much on their website you worried that they are indeed liquid-cooled using non conductive fluid with a low boiling point to dissipate the heat effectively no technical information on the liquid those given and I have asked a data but they haven't got back to me with that information yet they also point out the liquid is hermetically sealed and basically that's a fancy way of saying that it shouldn't leak or fart all over the place speaking of emitting wind the phase change process absorbs a lot of thermal energy and here is intended to take heat away from the PCB and memory chips connected to a clear tube on top of the modules is a thin aluminium heat spreader the heat spreader is connected to the surface of the memory chips via a thin adhesive thermal pad and it then transfers heat to the liquid via two small tabs at either end since this is just single sided memory there is just one black heat spreader that connects to liquid to the opposite side features a decorative red piece of aluminium and this strip is also found on the front side it covers the black heat spreader on the front side and again is locked into position using some double-sided adhesive for those of you wondering a data is using Samsung's K for a 8g 0-8 ICS otherwise known as samsung video memory so if you drop them down to DDR 3400 for example you will be able to run them at the advanced timings that we've been testing second generalize and processes with when compared to the g.skill Sniper X ddr4 3,600 memory that I've been using for testing Verizon the spectryx Dae offers much tighter timings out of the box I won't give you a full rundown but you can quite clearly see how they compare here on the screen in this little table that I've made before we get to testing out how well the liquid cooling works let's take a quick look at the RGB lighting embedded on the opposite side of the PCB from the memory ICS a10 RGB LED lights and these illuminate the clear strip that runs across the top of the modules containing the liquid the clear plastic has been given a slight tint which helps make the effect a little more discreet ADATA offers their RGB sync software for controlling the lighting effects but alternatively you can use your motherboards lighting software provided you're using import from asrock msi gigabyte or a soos personally I think the RGB lighting effects look okay but it's certainly not the best looking RGB memory that I've seen of course this is completely subjective but there are quite a few alternatives that I do prefer of course the real draw card here is the liquid cooling so what does it really have to offer well honestly not a lot but I'm sure that probably doesn't surprise that many of you ddr4 memory at one point three five volts doesn't get particularly hot and to be honest doesn't require any form of cooling at all so those heats read as you see I'm pretty much all the high-end desktop memory and mostly just there for show unfortunately the thermal sensor that allows monitoring via software such as Hardware info has been disabled on the a data memory so while I could easily monitor the g.skill Sniper X memory vice software I couldn't do the same with this spectryx dat memory so I got at the thermal gun and measured surface temperatures after an hour long Ida 64 memory stress just inside the Corsair crystal 570 X test system this means that the memory Isis are likely getting a bit hotter than what I'm reporting here but not much hotter with an ambient air temperature of 21 degrees the sniper X memory maxed out at just 32 degrees when fed one point four volts under the same conditions the spectryx dat memory was an entire degree cooler just one degree it's actually hard to say if that's an improvement at all certainly within the margin of error I decided to test again but this time with all forms of cooling removed leaving the memory chips completely exposed this saw the low temperature increased by just three degrees yep a whole three degrees taking the peak surface temperature to just thirty four degrees so as expected liquid cooling ddr4 memory is a bit pointless even if ddr4 memory around twice as hot as it actually does I'm not convinced a doubt a solution would actually help certainly no more than a proper finned heat sink in fact I'm willing to bet it would probably be worse so a bit of a gimmick there to be honest but at least the memory does come with some pretty impressive timings out of the box the only other issue I see for this memory could be the price I expect that you will pay a bit of a premium for the liquid in the top but we don't really know just yet because availability is quite weak so yeah hopefully pricing is competitive though the only other issue I have with these spectryx dat is the fact that they've wrapped RGB memory with red heat spreaders have you learned nothing from MSI it's really going to be black or white there's no other option for RGB memory and anything else such as this red stuff just defeats the purpose and as silly as it sounds I really feel like these red heat spreaders are really going to hurt sales of this memory and that is going to do it for now if you did enjoy the video be sure to the like button subscribe for more content if you appreciate the work with your hammer and box then consider supporting us on patreon thanks for watching I'm your host Steve and I will see you again next time