Gadgetory

I'm gonna say three little letters that are guaranteed to trigger all of you well most of you and that is our so this is a pretty typical RGB strip you've got a teeny tiny little diode LED sensor light emitting diode an RGB stands for red green blue and you've got those three colors you can pretty much make any 18 bla bla bla million colors because you know color palette and I learned that in kindergarten art class you take the tiny little RGB LED and you put it on this SMD which is mounted to this strip and this is what you get a very widely spaced very I don't know I guess monocoque archaic but this way they've been doing LEDs for a long time well fast forward years and you get what's steel the LED backlit TV which is a lot of very very tiny closely mounted LEDs weird obviously on time at the foil edgelet we're talking the actual full backlit LED panels and they just certainly determine hey this is a very elbows I feel efficient in a way yes this is a very energy efficient way of lighting the back of the screen and so that is kind of what as sort of inspired Corsair to take something like RGB or any LED to be to be honest and advance it how do you advance this which is the way it's been done forever well they're introducing compell it's and this is their actual surface mounted LED that doesn't require an SMD to run allowing them to really really create a dense just clustered leds that you can do a lot with so this right here is a 100 compell X LEDs in the same space that you would basically fit four of the standard SMD based LEDs so what can you do with that well you can put it in more places so they're starting with the Dominator platinum memory right here the corsair dominator which is right here this came out back in 2014 and the design really has remained unchanged with the exception of a few special editions which we've used and our build and it's one of those things where a lot of people went this is a high-end product and paying a lot why doesn't it have RGB the two common complaints we hear with RGB is so RGBA why does it have RGB and then they go if I won't put RGB on it and it's like why does it just have RGB it should have RGB like those are the two arguments and so whatever side of the fence you're on everything's gonna have RGB in the future just deal with it the nice thing is at least you have color options you can turn it to anything you want like Phil turnaround right here you got this white bill this isn't compelling LED but it's all white and uniform because the case has its own lighting and then you've got the RGB dims and it all matches it looks great make it what you want but when you take compel --ax it turns into something else so what you see right here are 12 of the compelling LEDs not 12 arrays 12 of the tiny little guys that's how bright they are and because they're not running an SMD they're extremely energy efficient so you can get extreme brightness without having to have a big density of them this is 132 capella LEDs they're hooked up to a controller that you can make a very like a dot matrix type screen that you can control so it's very similar to like an early model OLED but think about the way you could do this develop an SDK you can control the screen you can start having things on your system animate and do things so it's not just about lighting at that point it's about true customization of your system and that's where Corsair is really looking at doing with Capelli's I don't know exactly when it's gonna be available to like all of their products but it is coming and it's not gonna be on all of their products they're still gonna keep this type of array on the stuff to keep it more entry level more affordable and I don't know what the cost is on compelling in terms of like implementing this but this is the future because look it's flexible it's kind of like those flexible screens that you saw from LG back in the day so you have a lot of endless options that you can do with this if you get creative but the dominator Platinum RGB is what their day to day viewing it on first you can see right here how bright it is it's only using sixty nine milli amps or 130 milliwatts so it's not using that much power because the other problem with lit Ram the problem with lit RAM at least that we learned through our overclocking competition is that any amount of power that doesn't make it to the actual module reduces your amount of overclocking Headroom even milliamps milliwatts like this that low of a figure can actually determine how high your overclocking is you go which is why all the world world records and stuff have been achieved with non lit memory so they're hoping that this can also alleviate some of that so not only can you break records you can look good while doing it too so I just felt like this was worth talking about because whether or not you hate RGB or you're a tech nerd like us if you get excited about things that change and evolve this is this is probably gonna be the future and that one's now on the floor cause I dropped it so compelling this is coming take a look at that in 2019 obviously starting with the Dominator platinum but we're gonna see it on more things we've seen on cases fans coolers you name it and of course it doesn't require any introduction but it does of course tie into iqcp patrol it individually it's pretty obvious that is digitally addressable alright guys thanks for watching this video here about sports are compelling of course are sponsored our trip here to CES 2019 and of course brought to you by the Corsair One and Corsair one Pro check it out links in description below