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RGB that's red green blue lighting it is everywhere it's in RAM it's in motherboards it's even in SSDs now to the point where some SSDs have so many LEDs it can cause heating problems but that aside there's been a rumor in the industry and that is that having RGB on your PC can boost your FPS but I was talking to my good friend rocketjump ninja who was telling me when he was doing some benchmarking numbers that he had some RGB software on and when he turned it off he got a slight increase in performance so he asked me to put things to the test and see if the contrary is true and that is could RGB be affecting your performance let's find out here today with not only just my 18 core this is the 79 80 XC which has three different sets of RGB software first of all the Corsair IQ and then it's got the azuz or a sink and also the galaxy extreme for controlling the graphics card and then we've got my travel PC the yes mini and if you guys haven't seen that builder put the link up here that is an absolute beast 9900 kHz 390 32 gigabytes of RAM and a suitcase handle to boot so you can carry this thing around anywhere but it's also got to light loop 120 millimeter RGB fans installed and I use a corsair keyboard mouse and headset which all are controlled through the IQ so with that aside let the testing begin so our first super scientific test is to pull up task manager and just monitor what's going on with the IQ open this is my little yes mini PC right here and as we said in the intro it's running a ninety nine hundred K and this goes up to four point eight gigahertz in its current configuration but the five different states we're monitoring with task manager is the IQ closed the IQ open with no affects running the rainbow cycle just the all LED synched and then rainbow wave all LEDs animated and then the last is rainbow wave animated plus a temp census overlay and this is where the results got pretty interesting because we saw idle CPU percent utilization at about one point six percent on average and that went all the way up to eight point one percent with the two layers with IQ open so first of all over a five percent increase in CPU utilization especially on a ninety nine hundred K probably seems scary at first but this is an idle CPU and so when we seeing those percentages go up it's not that bad what we do have to worry about is ultimately the performance figures so with that aside let's run Cinebench and then after that we'll be going into a CPU strenous game csgo and getting you guys some solid numbers so after completing the Cinebench our twenty results we can see here that going from our best-case scenario that's having IQ closed we've got on average four thousand seven hundred and thirty three points and now we did run these tests quite a few times to weed out variants and we did see a consistent trend here and that is from the best case scenario four thousand seven hundred thirty three points we did see it slightly go down and then when the temp sensors were turned on we then saw a drop of over fifty points from the previous state and that was the rainbow wave all LEDs animated so basically the best-case scenario to the worst case scenario was a difference of one point six five percent roughly in CPU performance so Cinebench didn't really show much of a difference but csgo this is my favorite test of all because it does weed out a lot of different factors that even to this date it is a phenomenal game for testing minor differences as well as big differences and what we saw here with IQ off we had 521 average FPS we also had the highest maximum FPS draw but going down all the way to the rainbow effects coupled with the temp sensors on we saw an average FPS of 453 this is a drop of over 13% so what we can see coming out of this in csgo is that there is a sizeable difference and that can affect your gameplay basically if you're a competitive gamer it is advised to turn off everything before you get into a competitive match so that was the yes mini the travel PC we just tested out the IQ software but now we're going to go over to the main rig which can have the ability to pump three different sets of RGB software through it and let's start off now with Cinebench our 20 so starting off here we've got it clocked at 4.3 gigahertz on 18 cores with 64 gigabytes of memory and what I had for this test was three different sets here the azuz aura sync actually gave us a one-point boost over the nothing open so basically the aura sync once you've set your settings in it doesn't then affect your CPU performance whatsoever the gallic software showed a similar trend as well really just dialing in those settings to a chip on board the actual graphics card itself and then that remembers the RGB and you don't have to have the software open and even if you do have it open it's not polling your CPU and the next up we're moving on to IQ and what we had here was the rainbow effect as well as the temp sensor so two different layers and that is temp sensors which are polling the CPU and we saw a dip here in Cinebench our 20 going from around the 9600 point down to the low 9500 so not much of a difference really to write home about especially on the 18 core but having all these different software open at the same time then showed us a drop of an additional 50 points so it wasn't making a whole lot of difference in the Cinebench r20 run but what about the csgo minimum settings 720p benchmark so csgo on the 18 core 36 threaded 79 80 XE was actually really interesting because I didn't know but this game uses up to 28 threads maximum depending on the part of the game you're in and we only really noticed this by pulling up task manager and then actively monitoring when the game was running a benchmark and we could then manually count all the threads and so this is why I think on the 9900 K with its 16 threads this was where performance got affected as opposed to the 36 threaded option which still had an additional 8 threads left over doing nothing while this benchmark was running and so we're gonna pull up the numbers anyway but we can see here that it pretty much didn't make any difference when it came to having all three different sets of software open individually or having them all three at the same time open where we got the worst case scenario of 545 average FPS and then the best case scenario with all the software off of 552 well actually having the azouz or a sync open gave us one extra fps and all the rest of the results here were showing a similar trend in that it didn't make a difference because we had the spare performance left over so it does tell you something about how in the case of the IQ and the temp census how this software is actually working and that is we saw the biggest drop when we had the temp sensor setting open and so what that is doing is it's essentially polling your hardware to the point where that can affect your CPU performance and of course it can affect your CPU when it comes to playing games but as we saw with the 79 80 XE because we've got a lot of headroom left over in a game like csgo and I imagine pretty much every single game out there is not going to be using 36 threads for quite some time we can see that this game it didn't make a difference at all because the IQ and all the other RGB software is being mitigated to those spare CPU cores and threads and so it's not going to affect your performance if you've got a bigger system with more power to spare also on the flip side in case of the 9900 kay if a game doesn't use up to 16 threads and for instance it uses maybe 8 threads and you've got IQ or other RGB software open then it's not going to make a difference either so it does utilize available resources without affecting FPS if that game doesn't then utilize all those resources so it's a little bit of a weird thing but basically if the game does utilize all the cores and threads that your CPU offers and you do have things like IQ open or lastly if you are streaming and you're using your CPU to encode or of course you just want the best FPS possible then it would be well-advised to turn off that RGB software before you get into gaming but lastly the most interesting thing that we learned was things like the aura sync software and also the gal acts which have your pre-programmed settings which essentially save it to a different chip they didn't affect performance but also they didn't have the customization available that IQ has but ultimately the trade-off for that customization with IQ and also belief raises software since it does follow the footsteps of IQ is that it can affect your CPU performance and ultimately if you're playing games it can affect your FPS so a little suggestion in the future maybe is if they have for instance a node controller anyway guys that is enough RGB for me for one day if you guys enjoyed today's video then you know to do hit that like button also let us know in the comments section below what you think of RGB and also all the customization and RGB software do you think the trade-off is worth it honestly with all the light loop going on here I do like the effects and things that this gives me and of course I do have the 18 core 36 threads so it really doesn't affect me whatsoever but of course the less caused and threads you have the more this software can fact your performance and ultimately your FPS in games so that was a bit of a negative to see coming out of this but every guys I hope that answers a few questions especially rocketjump ninja who had a request for this video and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye you