hello again guys welcome back to tech it easy
so today we're going to be taking a look at some corsair vengeance rgb pro
ram literally going to be a quick gloss over then i'm going to jump into
an icue tutorial i'll show you how to set up the various different lighting
effects and also link it with your other corsair
peripherals if you do find the video helpful
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peripherals videos without further ado let's jump into the
video okay so just to give you an idea of what to expect from the vengeance
rgb pro ram this is the box it comes in i'm not going to do a
proper unboxing but as you can see on the back there it is compatible with
various other pieces of software such as msi's mystic light so upgrading
your ram is possibly one of the easiest upgrades
you can do specifically if you go for the vengeance
rgb pro ram this is not only going to give
you a performance boost but it's also going to instantly make your setup look
a lot better where you're going to see the biggest performance gains is if
you've got eight or less gigabytes of ram and you jump
up to 16 gigabytes or more here i've got a massive
34 gigabytes of ram i saw it cheap and i just thought can't really have enough
ram because i do pretty much everything i'm a cgi artist
for a living i do 4k video editing and i do gaming as well so for me i
could actually quite easily make use of that 34 gigabytes but
most people will get away with just 16. you can of course get away with the 8
gigabytes but what a lot of people will find is that
your games are stuttering and just by upgrading a ram just maybe getting one
more stick of eight gigabytes that will actually eliminate all the
stuttering and make everything run a lot smoother that exact same thing
happened to me when i was playing ark survival evolved
i was noticing the frame rate was okay and then it just sort of
stick every now and then it was getting really annoying and i as soon as i
upgraded my ram it instantly made the game and every
other game i played run a lot smoother i've only got a 1060
graphics card in this pc and i can quite easily run games at 2k
between 40 to 60 fps on medium to high settings so the most important thing you
need to know before you go out and buy some ram
is that not all ram is going to be compatible with your motherboard
you need to check what motherboard you have and you need to check
what ram it can support whether it's ddr3 ddr4
and what megahertz but those are the most important things you need to know
and really the only things you need to know before you go out and buy some ram
like i said it is at the end of the day probably one of the easiest upgrades you
can do to your pc so next up we're going to
jump into a quick iq software tutorial and show off some
of the lighting effects for the corsair vengeance rgb pro ram
okay so as promised let's jump into a quick iq
tutorial so boot iq up ah so yeah this is one of the
common problems with iq and that is that it just does not work okay let's
try that again so if you do encounter the problem i've
just had where you can't click on any of your peripherals what you need
to do is actually just go down to your
notifications panel on your pc right click the iq software symbol and
click quit and then just simply load it back up uh
nine times out of ten it will everything will be there
worse comes to worse all you'll have to do is just reset your pc
okay so hopefully you've got everything working now
so what we're going to do to start off is we're just going to take a look at
the profiles panel so what i've got going here is three
profiles i have like sort of preset and set to a hotkey on my mouse so i can
just simply click between them like so um so one
thing you can do on the uh profiles panel is you can actually
select a background image because when i'm using a certain color scheme i like
to use a certain background so i'm in the process of setting that
and you just click on the profile and you go down to background image
and select the image you want for the sake of this tutorial though we're just
going to create another profile by clicking on the plus icon
on the top right corner and what we're going to do is i'm just going to call it
video for now you can call it whatever you like
okay so now we've got this with this profile selected
we're going to go and select our vengeance rgb pro ram
uh if you're just following this tutorial in general then yes
select whichever piece of um corsair kit you've got and you want to
change
so once you click on the ram slot you'll be greeted with this sort of drop down
so what you want to do is go straight down to lighting effect
and again just press the plus button and that creates
the uh lighting effect like by default it's usually
the rainbow wave so what you want to do is go down here and we're just going to
practice making a static color for now nice and simple
so i'm just going to go for a sort of cyan blue color
and you'll see on the right hand side it depends how many uh
ram slots you've got but you can turn them
off and on here so i'm actually just going to turn dim one off
and what i'm gonna do now is create another lighting effect
good static color and then just for the sake of the tutorial i'm going to select
a red and then i'm going to turn dim 2 off so
this is how you get a sort of different color
on each ram slot but there is more to this uh
on the rgb ram there is actually a multi-color option
so i'm going to turn them both back on for now
and you'll see that you've actually got 10 individual lighting zones
so what we could do is just create a really nice
gradient effect just for the sake of the tutorial
quickly
i'm doing this very very rough at the moment
i'm sure you could get a lot more creative with this
there you go okay now you can see we've got like a static rainbow effect going
down so you can change these to whatever you
want so uh on one of my color profiles i have uh in
fact i'll show you quickly we'll just go to the blue and pink
go to lighting setup so i've got a multi-color gradient
a bit like that
so you can get really creative especially if you're doing a themed
setup
okay next little trick is we're going to actually add another lighting effect but
what we're going to do is just delete the static color for now
so this multi-color what uh sort of base should we call it we've got hair
this is going to sit this is going to be the color that's
always going to be on but what we're going to do here is
go to the lighting link options and i'm going to select
type lighting so what this does is whenever i click a button
like so it'll send a sort of pulse through
all my uh corsair peripherals so i've got mouse keyboard i've got all sorts
here so what you want to do is just slide
this underneath so this color is always on
you'll get this nice color pulse going through all your setups still but the
base color will always be there by default when you
select a lighting link um light node they will also appear on your other
peripherals by default again so you can see here once i click
it's going through my corsair mouse as well
so what you could do you could just do the same thing again
get a nice static color let's call it yellow just for now
and then i'm just going to slide that underneath there like so
and now my rgb colors will always be on but once i click i get this really cool
pulse through all of my setup and really once you get the hang of this
you can do whatever you like and you can get really really creative with
uh which lighting effects you want there are other lighting link
um options so you can go for rain so this will
actually again go echo across all your setup if you've got more corsair
peripherals i think it's quite a nice effect but it
might be a little bit too much because it's constantly moving it might be a bit
distracting for you actually but yeah that's just one of the things
you can do uh also on the ram specifically there is
a temperature so we click this it's going to indicate uh what temperature
your ram is uh sitting at basically so you can
see mine's not doing too great at the moment probably all the 4k video editing
but this could be a quite a nice indicator if you
don't want to have all those horrible on-screen stats up
you can just take a quick look inside your case to get an idea of some
temperatures as well as the lighting effects in iq
there's all sorts of other bits of information so you can see
all your stats there again your temperature and you can also
set notifications up here so what you can do you can say
when the ram hits a certain you can set it to show as red for
example so again that's a really nice um sort of trigger if you like without
having to have all those stats up on your screen you could just take a look
inside your case and if it's red then you know you're in trouble
you can also select your layout here just be careful because sometimes
it does uh default to the wrong one so just check that out when you start a
new profile but other than that that's really
all there is to iq um again keyboard mouse everything's a little bit
different everything works different lastly just before we go i'm going to
show you the keyboard and how to set that
up so again but we can just select a static color but with a
keyboard you can actually just assign individual keys so what you want to do
is hold control down like so so what i like to do is
highlight the keys i use often so like when i'm
playing the game it might just usually do wasd as with most games
if not all uh and so maybe i'll select this to like a nice
blue or something and then i'll select another
static color uh i'll slide that underneath there and as you can see
my blue has stayed there but the rest of the keyboard is now lit
so uh let's pick i don't know like an orange
so yeah that's how you do that just think of everything as a layer system
and it'll be really really easy to get yeah your head round but yeah that
pretty much wraps it up for the tutorial let me know
if i missed anything if you want me to go over anything in a future video i'll
happily try and do that for you um iq can be a little bit janky it's not
had uh the best reviews in the past but when
it works it does work well okay so that was the corsair vengeance
rgb pro ram along with your iq tutorial
let me know what you thought in the comment section and please do feel free
to share your iq profiles please don't
forget to like and subscribe and i will hopefully see you in the next
one