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if you're building a PC in 2017 chances are majority of your components will be RGB compatible so that means you can think the lighting from your PC case to your motherboard to the cooler to the cooler fans the graphics card will for sure have some RGB elements in there somewhere power supplies not so popular RGB storage is not there yet but system memory in particular RGB system memory is here so let's see if it's here to stay creativity is fueled by the best instruments it doesn't always come easy and in the process you often realize how important quality is the Rd 400 by OCC gives you quality and speed with M de 2 interface the Shiban and flash and a pci bracket making it possible to focus on what matters invest in storage that makes a difference with a 5 year advanced warranty and what I have on hand is a 16 gigabyte 32 hundred megahertz Evo X DVR for kids from gale jail q I don't know now this kit is not perfect but it's a very good way to test the waters on users acceptance of our GB memory in the first place and g.skill recently came out with their trigons the RGB kits that are fully software controllable although there are some compatibility issues with some chipsets and the beta software doesn't work with x99 so this hardware gaming memory yep it actually sells out on the package tries to mitigate those compatibility concerns with a physical color switch on each dim letting me choose between red green blue or the RGB color cycle and so the concept is future friendly and lighting is not being locked down by software but first of all the plastic switch rattles and the body doesn't really have that high quality feel despite having some aluminum plate and the LED module at the top is no low-profile at all it's about 6 centimeters and - total for the entire them and here it is next to some low profile and just standard memory kits and the evil ex will just may be too tall for many CPU tower heat sinks so maybe in a AO is recommended with these and whose idea was it to color the plastic switch in red instead of something less striking for this RGB component that is definitely the rule number one for neutral color design is to make everything neutral so you can color things with those lighting components in the package we get two cables and it seems that Gail definitely care about color neutrality as a red cables are visible on one and RGB tips on the other so to power the lights without the software you need to use this three pin fan header with individual connectors into each Tim the cables pretty long it's actually quite easy to hide but if only it was a standard black cable without the red but who cares about attention to detail when you have hardcore gaming in the product line and with the dim powered with the three thin pen header you can manually switch between the blue green red and the RGB cycle / dim and it's always fading in and out something that you have no control over and that's one of my least favorite things about the illumination on Ram in general I also dislike the lack of consistent diffusion on that transparent top portion as you can clearly see there are some brighter spots along the strip and it's not really pretty and the only reason why you'd want to use these in manual control is if one of three colors suits your build perfectly and also if you don't have a compatible motherboard for software control which is where the second way to power the LEDs comes into play so we have this 12 volt RGB connector which is on the opposite side of them and connects to the RGB connector on your motherboard to allow you to think and control the lighting of your RAM and the rest of your components through software so it's basically a true two in one solution but be careful only one method is allowed to be used at once so only one of the cables needs to be plugged in for illumination so you either power it the other 12-volt RGB connectors or go through the three pins and header so now what I've done is connected the ram into my Maximus 8 kilo alpha motherboard with D 12 volt RGB connector so I can control the memory led through the aura software on the AC side or you have an MSI board you can do that same thing with mystic like sync which is their own implementation of the same thing so here let's check out how accurate these colors are first of all the red channel looks very nice and you can go into the purples and they look pretty nice I said the N 60 X 62 cooler behind me in this light blue just for reference for you are we're on how those colors can change so it's quite simple to color match based on your other lighting inside you case - you know within this half of the spectrum between the blues and the purples and the red however when we enter into this green arena it looks absolutely terrible for example right now we have the highest intensity of the light and the greens look like they look super washed out there's no color in that it looks white with a little hint of green the same thing continues as we approach the yellows which is so disappointing right now we are in the yellow spectrum and all we see is just again just washed out orange so it's it's quite disappointing to not have any color definition within the orange or the green spectrum and that might be disappointing if you want to you know choose GPU a CPU temperature in fact because that's all it's doing looking into the greens and the yellows the orange is fine but you know my CPU temperature right now is under 30 so we're should be in the greens and that looks absolutely terrible so the only way to really highlight the greens is if you to not really go into the color cycle effect because the green still doesn't show up but if you were to manually select the green through the that little slider switch on the actual memory when it comes to the breathing effect it's quite uniform it's nice that follows in for both DRAM slots equally so there's consistency and not like randomness that goes on but I do like the the static nature of DRM and being able to change the color of it the only thing is that obviously it's not consistent throughout for the blues it's fine but if you choose any other color like in the Purple's also you can still see the inconsistency of the lighting spread throughout that transparent portion at the top and that's just disappointing that's not what you want to see from you know an LED specific memory kit so that maybe they should definitely work on that improving that so that it looks much prettier and that's it for our first look on this RGB memory I really love the concept of combining software and manual control into one but the evil x kit is far from perfect design wise I think more companies should be pushing with subtle color accents and soft diffusion especially when it comes to RGB components I would want to see more quality of a quantity when it comes to color and so the only thing that's left to receive the RGB treatment is Rams moving forward needs to be better storage maybe like RGB SSDs and then power supplies so between those three components where would you like the focus of companies to prioritize on proper lighting implementation let me know in the comments down below I'm Dmitry how it's not stick much for watching we'll see you to the next video