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Corsairs new vengeance RGB pro series ddr4 memory gives you blazing fast speed and dynamic multi zone RGB lighting with ten ultra-bright LEDs per module customization options are practically endless with the corsair IQ software package and they're available with black or white heat spreaders find out more about the Corsair Vengeance RGB pro series via the sponsor link in the description what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware this is another video about a massive overpowered computer and this computer is named Riptide and if you're watching my channel over the summer you probably saw me putting it together it is an insane overpowered system there's actually two builds in here FreeNAS system in the bottom and an epic gaming slash multi use editing rig in the top and I haven't actually really powered it up much for the past three or four weeks because I've been traveling in other things but I have a bit of a situation right now today's video is mostly gonna be about the lighting in the system because whereas I got it all set up and plugged in and I have a crazy amount of course there ll series fans as well as some other RGB elements throughout when I powered this on yesterday I realized a bit of a problem which is that we got some action going on with this reservoir over here on the right but the one on the Left which is the CPU loop there's nothing really going on with that one so unfortunately it seems like one of my pumps has died very sad about that it happened quickly so I guess that's good I already talked to alpha cool about it and they are sending me over replacements for the time being though I can't really run this system because the CPU is just overheating I was getting too warm to the point where it couldn't even recognize the memory properly but I think I might have a temporary solution to get us through today's video and that is thanks to all of the quick disconnects I have this is actually a pretty flexible system considering that it is custom water-cooled so first off let me shut it off so right now I have two separate loops this one is cooling the CPU and going up to the top radiator and then this one on the right is cooling both GPUs and going to the two front radiators but look what I can do with my quick disconnects I'm gonna pop that out I'm gonna pop this out I'm going to connect that right there I'm gonna connect this right here so obviously not as pretty now but I've gone from two distinct separate loops running in parallel to both loops running in series since we're gonna go through the GPUs over here and then out back into this pump and then up to the CPU and then out of there and back into this one and it's just gonna cycle through there even though the pumps not running so I do have some built-in redundancy with this system which is nice although I'd much rather have both pumps up and running this will work for now so guys if it wasn't clear from the get-go there's a lot of coarser equipment in this build and a lot of it is RGB related and Corsair has software called IQ this is somewhat recent prior to this they've had a couple different softwares Corsair link that could monitor your Corsair equipment that you have installed and then a separate software for RGB lighting they have now combined it all together and here is a quick look at the user interface that brings us here and this is the default home page where you can get a look at the hardware you have connected unfortunately all of my hardware was recognized I've gotten full course thereby also connecting up a k70 RGB keyboard m65 pro RGB Mouse of course I have the X 1600 I power supply installed and since I connected the USB from that to the motherboard that's being recognized I got my vengeance RGB memory kits the Obsidian 1000 d case which actually has a built-in commander pro which registers it as the 1000 d so it can determine that that is distinct from add-on commander pro's then I have an add-on commander Pro and an add-on lighting node Pro now my focus today is going to be on lighting but I'm quickly going to work kind of backwards here and jump over to the Settings tab because here you can determine all of your different hardware that's connected and here's where you would adjust specific stuff like on your power supply for example this is stuff that link was formerly able to do also more specific settings like keyboard and mouse and it'll also give you updates or access to firmware updates here also down on the bottom you can access some basic functions of the software itself like changing from Celsius to Fahrenheit for the display above beyond that back over on the home page we can see on the upper left side we can create profiles and create new profiles by just clicking the plus it will add one on there you can name the profile yourself and then you can also use the little icons to delete the profile if you want to you can also copy profiles and you can import and export them as well I have not messed around with importing and exporting but I imagine if somebody has a very similar setup to you and they've done a bunch of cool laying configurations with it then you could download that and save yourself some work and one last thing before we get into the lighting is the dashboard over here and you can add and remove modules to this and it just gives you sort of a visual look at the stuff that's connected so I can see on my memory here and the speeds and timings and the current temperatures I can see some specs for my case and the case fans as well as case fan RPMs and everything for the commander pro and basic stats for the power supply if you're looking at the system right now you might notice that it's pretty much all whites and in fact my keyboard here is all whites and the mouse is all white on the lighting too and that is because I used this very easy to use instant lighting feature I thought this was a pretty cool feature when I was first showed it at CES and yes it is also compatible to memory although that does take another second or two just a really simple way to choose a single color and they have a nice assortment of them here although they don't always appear exactly how they should like for instance that's supposed to be kind of orange a little bit more yellow but another cool feature here is if you go and choose the black option everything turns off so if you want to watch a movie or something I have really quick access to doing that and then you can also choose the X here and that will turn off instant lighting so you can go over and use your profiles which are going to be a little bit more advanced so once you've chosen a profile and I've made one here called blue and white because that's really been my goal is to set up all the lights here to be mostly blue and light so it matches with my custom cables by woz mods and here once you've chosen a device like the RGB memory you can go and choose lighting effects and that will allow you to adjust the lighting effects now over here on the left side are layers and if you've ever used Photoshop for example this is a great way to think about it the layer on top is the one that will be visible and then layers beneath that will shine through if there's no other layer on top of that that has a light to supersede it so for this setup I made two layers with the lower layer I chose dims one three six and eight with the upper layer I chose dims two four five and six and that gave me a nice coordination and by the way if you're if you just if you deselect or reselect the dims here you can sort of see which one you're selecting at any given time like that's seven that's five that's two and that's four so if you want it to be somewhat symmetrical when you're looking at it from the front and you have eight dims let's do another one and start from scratch here so you guys can get a better look I've added a lighting effect which applied to all of the RAM sticks and next I'm going to let's switch to static color just so it's a little easier to keep track of and let's make all of these like a nice light blue color and that should reflect there yes not too bad from here again I can deselect certain Ram sticks that I do not want to include with my additional color so now I have one layer up here that has just dims one three six and eight to be that blue color and that's just static now if I wanted to I could add another lighting effects here now it's on top it's up above so it is overwritten the static color if I were to drag that down and put it underneath we could see the rainbow shining through underneath here whereas that static blue color is still on top so this shows you how you can kind of overlap and layer different effects to make it look how you want to so here I switch that second layer to color pulse and I've chosen just red and white so now we should have static blue and then we should have pulsing for the other four dims between red and white so there's the blue with the red and now the Reds gonna shift to whites well it pulses so it turns off and then comes back on as white just like that beautiful beautiful alright so shift just transitions between the colors without dimming out first so now we have blue with red and white shifting in between feeling the only very patriotic today go America everyone register to vote now a vengeance memory lets us individually address each dim but not each LED again that's just the type of memory that I have and it's because I wanted 128 gig kits of course there's new memory isn't available in that yet or at least it wasn't when I built the system but what if you're selecting a device that has multiple lights multiple addressable LEDs or multiple devices each with addressable LEDs and for that I have gone and selected our actual obsidian D case and you'll notice on the left you have lighting setup as well as chassis lighting so setup here is where you can actually tell it for which channels that are available what is actually connected to it so simplest device to show you this was probably gonna be the lighting node Pro which is just has a couple LED channels that come out of it if we go to lighting setup here we can see the two channels and we can tell it what device is actually connected this is telling it how many LEDs it will need to address and when it comes to addressable LED strips and you can't automatically detect that you have to what's there so for example here with lighting channel 2 this is actually where my LED strips at the bottom of the case are connected so I have different options to choose from here if I tell it it's got an RGB light strip connected to it and I tell it one strip is connected then down there at the bottom of my case where I have two light strips connected one will light up but even though the other one is plugged in it's not lighting up so what happens when I tell it to are connected so here you go just jumping from one strip to two strips and now the second strip lights up because we have told the program how much power to use so using that method I've gone through each device just to make sure everything is connected and I found that pretty much everything is there except I did make one mistake if I go over to the lighting node Pro here which again has two LED channels connected to its if I change that to none that's lighting channel 1 you might notice that my front Corsair logo and actually at the top the IOR jeebies go out if I tell it it's an RGB strip and three strips are connected then they start working again that's not exactly how it should work because there is an obsidian connection point here and that is where those front panel things should be connected to so I think just so everything is going to be connected right to where it should go and what I'm selecting is actually representing the right color I'm gonna do a quick rewire and see if I can plug that lighting node Pro back into light strips or fans and plug the Obsidian controller back into the Obsidian LEDs so I did manage to fix the wiring up mostly at least the front panels are now connecting properly so that I can address them if I choose the Obsidian over here I actually have the chassis lighting and then I have the individual lighting channel that I've set up and right now I have overlaid two effects so you can kind of get an idea of putting something on top of another thing I chose static color and I went to every single device and I set it to be that static color of pink and then I used lighting link which is a universal lighting effect that can apply to all addressable LEDs in the system bear in mind addressable only so lighting link actually is not an effect that I can put over our memory right now but if you switch to that addressable LED memory it will be able to do that but more to the point with the static color on the bottom and I just made that pink and you can actually individually choose which LEDs you want to apply an effect to for an example like there that's just pink now or our versus selecting me all of the LEDs in that fan or all the other LEDs and both of these fans are like just these four LEDs from those two fans it's actually really flexible when it comes to the addressable LEDs but I've just chosen them all and then I've used that lighting link which again is universal effects that becomes available as a third option here light link effects will apply to all addressable LEDs that are connected to IQ software and now you can see that visor effect which is kind of like the kit effect from Knight Rider and it just goes over all of the LEDs and since everything is more or less in order it will actually cycle through so it's kind of cool to watch it come across the LED strip on the bottom to get up to the front LED fans there's a couple on the top I think fans that are not quite in the exact right order but I will probably go back and fix that at a future time so just to do one more quick lighting demo I set up a blue and white color scheme and I think my favorite thing that this software is able to do is the overlapping of two effects on top of each other so I've been going with the method of choosing a static background color white is pretty Universal of matches with most other colors and then choosing an effect overlay on top such as arc arcs one of the fun ones that I found to your heart beat pong these are gonna work differently depending on what you have set up and also some of these effects are applicable to the light loop series fans because they have 16 individual addressable LEDs whereas some of the effects are not so you actually find with certain devices like if I go over here to the Obsidian 1000d here's all of my LEDs available on that I actually don't have the ark choice as an option down here simply because these LEDs are a little bit more limited than the light loop series fans are but by using a combination of laying visor over the top and laying that arc effect over the top I came out with what you see in front of you right now which I think looks pretty cool of course there's tons of tweaking and stuff that could still be done with it but that's the whole point is that it's very flexible so you can set the lighting up however you want it to look and hopefully make it look pretty and match with your overall color scheme that said if you've been looking close up at the actual build you might notice that not all my LEDs are lining up I've got the memory I've got all the fans I've got light strip at the bottom I've got the LEDs on the case itself what I do not have are the LEDs on the motherboard that strip going down the right side of the RG zenith extreme from Asus and then there's an accent LED on the top left there too unfortunately the LED control software is still a little bit disjointed depending on what hardware you're using and what software you're using so I cannot control the LEDs on the motherboard with the Corsair IQ software so I'm gonna install ASIS or a sink right now which has its own pluses and minuses when it comes to compatibility and bugginess and stuff and I'm gonna cross my fingers that I don't run into any of those issues because I know both of the software's are going to be trying to control the RGB lighting on the memory for example that said let's download and install aura and see if I can get all the LEDs in the system to line up or is install did a quick restarts and weird micro files go out here we go there's my blue and white it's thinking it's thinking about doing what I want it to do no it's not a sues took it over oh those jerks alright so first thing I've discovered here is that the AC source sync software has apparently taken over control of my RGB dims very unfortunate asus cuz you know I had a cool effect going on there but let's see what you have available for me so first off let's see if I could just disconnect the DRAM save save the changes DRAM is disconnected I can turn the lights on or off so I currently do not know how to like detach the memory from the asus or a software and let the corsair IQ software control it's maybe installing one than the other or something like that i'm happy right now that I'm not getting any direct conflicts that's causing the system to lock up or colors not to actually take effect but I think to give myself something functional to work with for now I'm gonna go to rainbow gradients this has been my go-to effect for RGB lighting scenarios because it allows you to choose a range of colors here so you don't necessarily get the rainbow vomit a lot of people have kind of gotten over and but I'm going to just choose from sort of a lighter blue to a darker blue I'll hit apply there and then that should affect my memory sticks as well as those RGB accents on the motherboard and get everything matching up pretty nicely with the color scheme that I chose with IQ but guys that is pretty much going to be all for this video I really just wanted to get this system back up running since it's been a while since I messed around with it and yes I do have further coverage planned on this of course I'm going to need to swap out that pump and my goal has really been to actually use the system from the day one I want to use this system I need to get integrated into my computer room back there so another follow up is going to be building just a platform a stand a computer off floor option that will hold this system and integrate it into my computer room back there and then of course I've got the swap of the pump and I'm gonna be upgrading the waterblock here from this CPU only dedicated alpha cool block to a full mono block because ek makes a mono block for the X 399 these two Xenith motherboard so that's coming in the future too I hope you guys have enjoyed this video though and learned a little bit more about the complexities of setting up not just the system but getting all the lighting wired in and then actually using the software to set up the lighting to look something akin to what you maybe had in mind when you're originally building the system I like what I've got for now first I'm gonna set up some more profiles for this too I think in the future but guys definitely hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video hit the subscribe button too if you want to be notified a little bail notification icon - that's helpful to you get a notification once I post the follow up videos on this system it's good to get back to it since I've been covering the RT x-series for a very long time thanks again for watching though guys and we'll see you next time