RGB LED EVERYTHING!!
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It's no secret that the gaming industry wants programmable RGB LED's on everything. We're long past putting them on fans and keyboards, now they're finding their way into M.2 SSD's and even sticks of RAM.
But you know what really grinds my gears about RGB RAM? It's too hard to see! You bury them deep inside your computer chassis and gotta crane your neck around to peek through the plexiglass window on the side of your case to actually behold the beauty that is glowing RAM sticks. And unless you're a super neat-freak about cable management, you've probably got a slew of SATA cables, an oversized CPU heatsink, and a big, thick 24-pin ATX cable bundle in the way.
Fortunately, G.Skill has come up with a solution for this incredibly anxiety-inducing problem. For the amazingly-affordable price of around $240, you can get a display box for your RAM! And of course the display box has programmable RGB LED's on it, too! Now, you can safely display your gorgeous RGB RAM in a matching RGB display case that allows you to behold the pure, holy glory of RGB LED's without having to bother it with boring and mundane things like monitoring the system bus or responding to read requests in a timely manner. No, RGB RAM sticks are prima donnas! The only thing that's important about them is that they glow, and you can program the color of that glow! Everything else is vestigial! Who cares about DRAM cells when you've got RGB LED's to flaunt!
Thanks to G.Skill, I can now eliminate every single one of my computers and replace them with these display boxes. Sure, they won't help me watch YouTube or tweetagram my FaceSpace account, but I can bask in the warm, comforting glory of the holy RGB LEDs on a few 128 GB kits of DDR4 and all will be well in my life.
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I'm not in the least surprised. Gaming accessories industry is a trash dump since forever.
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@MrL said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Gaming accessories industry is a trash dump since forever.
Coming soon! RGB trashcans! With matching RGB garbage bags! Where you can dispose of your RGB energy drink cans and RGB Doritos bags! All compatible with our new RGB-IoT device that uses a neural net AI on the cloud to color-coordinate all the RGB devices in your home via a blockchain!
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RGB cable jacketing when?
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@pie_flavor said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
RGB cable jacketing when?
Lian Li's got you covered!
https://www.amazon.com/Lian-Li-Strimer-RGB-Cable/dp/B07FCLJYVH)
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Someone should make a 'Gaming or sci-fi' gallery.
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You're focusing on the box. It's next-level ridiculous, I agree. But the RAM that goes with it is already pretty damn ridiculous.
Experience the Trident Z Royal RGB DDR4 RAM:
https://youtu.be/0-2IIqO9-Jw?t=1m
To summarize, you get a fucking cleaning cloth with the RAM modules. 'Nuff said.
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I got some RAM sticks with those new RGBA LEDs, but I can't see where did I put them.
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@topspin I feel you... my sons absolutely wanted one of these <programmable colour>-shite keyboards; could talk them down from > EUR 150 to -still too expensive- ~50 noname-brand (e.g. scrape off <vendor> and slap on some generic CE (China Export) sticker)
outcome: the first week that thing glowed like possessed, since then: lights off or some devent color 'cos it is too distracting.
/wouldnae' have happened with the EUR 150 one 'cos this one just knows what you want, I'm quite sure.
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My current home keyboard as red backlighting but I'll admit I do want one of the RGB backlit ones. I just can't justify replacing a perfectly working keyboard with an even more expensive one just for the backlighting colour.
RAM and stuff though? Nah. I don't even have a window in my case and while the motherboard and graphics card do have some sort of glowy LED stuff it's turned off.
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@MrL said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Gaming accessories industry is a trash dump since forever.
Coming soon! RGB trashcans! With matching RGB garbage bags! Where you can dispose of your RGB energy drink cans and RGB Doritos bags! All compatible with our new RGB-IoT device that uses a neural net AI on the cloud to color-coordinate all the RGB devices in your home via a blockchain!
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@mott555 But if the box will work with any memory modules we could combine it with a couple of these kits:
No wasted DRAM chips, just RGB lights!
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So we're back for a new installment. When you think about what's important with RAM, you probably think of specifications on CAS latency, operating frequency, whether or not it has ECC, bit error count, voltage level, and so on.
But Adata has a brand-new specification for their RAM, sure to be a game-changer in the way RAM is evaluated.
This specification is called "Percentage of module covered in LEDs", and for Adata's new RAM, the value is 60%.
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@mott555 I'm just covering my eyes so I don't go blind at all that light…
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@dkf said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 I'm just covering my eyes so I don't go blind at all that light…
No! You stare at and enjoy the LEDs, or we'll make you!
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@mott555 The LEDvico technique?
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@dkf said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@mott555 I'm just covering my eyes so I don't go blind at all that light…
No worries; my case doesn't have any openings through which the lights are visible. I think my graphics card has lights, but since I can't see them, who cares?
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What about all of the amazing software that gets bundled with those LEDs to make them glow just right? My work PC has a fancy glowing graphics card, not because I wanted it, but because you don't even get a choice nowadays with high-spec components.
For the hell of it I installed the associated program and set it to change color based on usage as I figured that's at least somewhat useful.
I soon started to notice my computer was being extremely sluggish when many process were running. Task Manager revealed that a system process was completely maxing out the CPU. I don't remember the name now, but it is the process responsible for responding to performance queries. Looking into it some more, it turned out that this piece of glowing rubbish software was continuously querying Windows for the equivalent of
SELECT * FROM Everything
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@Deadfast said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
it turned out that this piece of glowing rubbish software was continuously querying Windows for the equivalent of
SELECT * FROM Everything
...I'm involved in the "gaming" business because of one of my clients. Let's say that I am not the least bit surprised by what you describe.
The upside is that unlike the vast majority of shitty software that exists, at least you get to look at pretty colors.
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@Zerosquare said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
The upside is that unlike the vast majority of shitty software that exists, at least you get to look at pretty colors.
Not really. Following my discovery I of course promptly uninstalled the program so now the graphics card is permanently stuck on red. I would have preferred it be permanently stuck on "off" instead but I guess one can't have everything.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
it might have asked you to register for their (insecure) cloud service to be able to
change the light colorsinstall a graphics card driverThere, Nvidia'd it for you.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Deadfast said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
There, Nvidia'd it for you.
Eh?
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@Deadfast said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Deadfast said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
There, Nvidia'd it for you.
Eh?
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
It could have been worse -- for example it might have asked you to register for their (insecure) cloud service to be able to change the light colors and software could have been made to only accept commands from their (hackable) server.
Razer?
I had an old keyboard gamepad thing that I quite liked. It remembered its programming. New version doesn't and requires me to run thier stupid razer cloud garbage if I want non-default settings.
I hate them.
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@loopback0 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Deadfast said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Deadfast said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
There, Nvidia'd it for you.
Eh?
How long until the website gets a mandatory login too?
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The best part about RGB LEDs is that you can use them to go back to the good old days of red and amber (kinda) and pretend that fecking blue and white never existed
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@Deadfast said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Zerosquare said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
The upside is that unlike the vast majority of shitty software that exists, at least you get to look at pretty colors.
Not really. Following my discovery I of course promptly uninstalled the program so now the graphics card is permanently stuck on red. I would have preferred it be permanently stuck on "off" instead but I guess one can't have everything.
Currently, my desktop tower is a black and very opaque monolith, so there can be any number of retarded RGB lights, and it is entirely hidden from the world. But the case I had before this one had perforated sides for massive fans, and a bunch of stupid leds with mirrors and shit in the front (it was a really cheap case with excellent design apart from all the blinkenlights). On that one I cut the wires for every LED I could find apart from HDD and Power. Including desoldering a couple of stupid leds from a network card. Why the fuck they were on that card was a mystery to me, but now in hindsight, when every other manufacturer seems to think RGB leds all over everything is the greatest ever, I guess I'm not equally perplexed.
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@Carnage said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Including desoldering a couple of stupid leds from a network card.
Was that the traffic indicator LED (occasionally actually useful for diagnosis) or was it part of the LED All The Things blecherosity?
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@dkf said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Carnage said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Including desoldering a couple of stupid leds from a network card.
Was that the traffic indicator LED (occasionally actually useful for diagnosis) or was it part of the LED All The Things blecherosity?
No, just an array of LEDs that changed colour and blinked in almost sync every once in a while. The LEDs that show some status were left functional. And those LEDs tend to not be of the retina burning power variety either.
This was also the larger bulbous kinds of LEDs, not the tiny on chip variety.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@Carnage So let me get this straight -- you bought a case with LEDs, components with LEDs and then proceeded to destroy said LEDs?
Did it not occur to you that it would have been simpler to just buy thing without LEDs in the first place?
I mean, you almost can't find a video card without huge RGB strips all over it today, but AFAIK cases, fans, and network cards still come in "plain" variety.
It was dirt cheap, and had lots of really good case features that was hard to come by in one single case back then, the one drawback was the gawdy LEDs and silly design of the front. It was a really good and well laid out case. To get a similarly well designed inside of a case, I'd had to shell out 10-20 times more. That's why I got it and cut out all the LEDs with the empathy of Alex Mercer.
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@levicki said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
AFAIK cases, fans, and network cards still come in "plain" variety.
Last time I built a PC, I got the cheapest plain Rosewill case available. The included front fan had LEDs, but thankfully the rear one didn't so I could swap them to be slightly less annoying.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
I got some RAM sticks with those new RGBA LEDs, but I can't see where did I put them.
Now, we have an ARGB power supply! (I can't find a definition of what they mean by "ARGB" but I assume they didn't break the laws of physics and add a functional alpha channel that makes the item go invisible.)
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
I can't find a definition of what they mean by "ARGB"
Augmented RGB, obviously
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@HardwareGeek said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
No worries; my case doesn't have any openings through which the lights are visible. I think my graphics card has lights, but since I can't see them, who cares?
If an LED shines in a case and no one is around to see it, does it emit any light?
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@mott555 said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Now, we have an ARGB power supply! (I can't find a definition of what they mean by "ARGB" but I assume they didn't break the laws of physics and add a functional alpha channel that makes the item go invisible.)
It's Addressable: each individual RGB LED package in the device can be a different color and changed programmatically. This particular power supply line has 18 of them in the fan and accepts commands from a bunch of different motherboard types.
Ugh.
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@Parody said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
This particular power supply line has 18 of them in the fan
https://gfycat.com/helplessoffensiveindianpalmsquirrel-marijuana-but-why-harold-and-kumar
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@LaoC said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
@HardwareGeek said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
No worries; my case doesn't have any openings through which the lights are visible. I think my graphics card has lights, but since I can't see them, who cares?
If an LED shines in a case and no one is around to see it, does it emit any light?
Is there a cat nearby and does the LED emit a gamma photon?
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Sadly, I've never seen any gamma-emitting LED. Or even any X-ray LED. That's too bad, there's so many "fun" stuff we could build with that...
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@Zerosquare If an ultraviolet LED was accelerated towards you at nearly the speed of light or shined at you from a much lower gravity potential...
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Of course I do
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@Zerosquare said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Sadly, I've never seen any gamma-emitting LED. Or even any X-ray LED. That's too bad, there's so many "fun" stuff we could build with that...
It's one of the core components of a type 8 phaser, but sadly is not small enough for handheld operation at this time...,.,.,..,.,...,,...
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@Zerosquare said in RGB LED EVERYTHING!!:
Sadly, I've never seen any gamma-emitting LED.
No naturally occurring isotopes of Ga, In or As undergo γ decay, nor do any synthetic isotopes of Ga or In. 73As and 74As do, but as they do not occur in nature, γ emission is only one of several possible decay modes, and they are very short-lived (half-lives of only 80 and 18 days, respectively), the likelihood of γ emission from an LED is extremely small.
As for emitting γ rays the same way LEDs emit light, γ rays have energies >100keV. If you happen to find any semiconductor materials with electron energy band gaps that large, you can probably get yourself a Nobel Prize, because anything above about a couple of volts is called an insulator, not a semiconductor, and even really good insulators have bandgaps not much above 10–15eV, or so.
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@HardwareGeek 100keV is well past the total electron stripping energy for anything I can think of. It's so far of y the electronic energy scale it's not even in the same solar system.