Some of you think RGB lighting is cool.
Ed.
And you wear your RGB pride on your sleeve.
Some of you are closet RGB lovers.
Hiding your secret passion under the blanket.
Some of you couldn't be more different from those people.
Some of you hate RGB.
You call it "pointless," "stupid," "cancer."
But whether you're sitting there ready to throw your wallet at your screen
or your palm at your forehead,
there's one thing you all have in common right now.
A burning curiosity about who makes
the best RGB computer memory on the market.
And I have the answer.
Synergy is the amazing software
that lets you share your mouse and keyboard
between multiple computers.
Check it out now at the link in the video description.
For a company whose copy-paste game is so weak
that their website actually contains references to
"qual-channel memory",
the marketing spin on Geil's Evo X
is actually very good.
They boast that their HILM approach enables dynamic RGB lighting
without any performance or stability penalty
because it separates the RGB lighting components
from the rest of the PCB.
And their use of a standard 4-pin connector
means across the board…get it?
Compatibility with software lighting control
across any CPU type, motherboard, or even breakout control box
like the ones CableMod includes with their case lighting kits.
And they even include four basic presets on a little switch
if you want to power it from the other side of the module
off a 9-volt or a 12-volt fan header.
All of that makes a lot of sense in my mind, so I get --
Hey!
Wait a minute.
This is just an RGB strip taped to a normal RAM module!
I mean, they couldn't even get the thing to sit on there straight.
And that ignores that you will need power or 4-pin RGB leads
running to every individual module,
a cable management nightmare.
What the Evo X does have going for it is that top to bottom,
Giel's lineup passes the RND savings directly to the consumer,
coming in by far the cheapest
out of all our RGB RAM
with a wide range of capacities and speeds available.
Though, only a handful of them were in stock at Newegg.
Corsair's Vengeance RGB DDR4 represents a significant step up in cost,
but in return you get a whole lot more product development.
They not only custom built their modules to allow their RGB lights to be powered
directly from the memory slot,
but they actually built their RGB controller with storage
that allows you to change your lighting effects through the OS.
The memory section of Link
isn't especially comprehensive,
but I'd say most of the important bases are covered.
Breathing, pulsing, shifting, and delay adjustments for dim-to-dim animations
with brightness adjustments apparently coming soon.
And Corsair gets credit for learning from their experience
launching the K70 RGB Keyboard.
It's really easy to use this time.
Another nice touch is that Corsair allows you
to flip your light bar cover
so that the logos are all aligned on X99 boards.
Overall compatibility is pretty darn good
with both MSI Mystic Flare and GIGABYTE RGB Fusion working on Intel
and supported in beta on Ryzen,
though that doesn't fully make up for the product lineup
that's limited to 8-gig modules
or the lack of support for ASUS Aura Sync.
Especially when you consider
the price parity with G.Skill's equivalent
spec trident Z RGB kits.
This stuff
is
banaynays!
They managed to power
the RGB lighting effects, through the DIMM slot
just like Corsair.
They worked evidently with ASUS
as far as I can tell
on their comprehensive RGB lighting control software.
The interface is nearly identical to Aura
and they threw in
individually addressable LEDs to take
their swagger to a whole other level.
So you can run breathing, pulsing, flashing,
rainbow effects and so much more!
On individual DIMMs
or synced up between multiple ones.
The software is all still beta
and programming it is a little unintuitive and tedious.
But it's pretty darn
rewarding as long as you've got a
compatible system.
Intel and AMD are
supported on ASUS with MSI ASRock and
Gigabyte support still pending.
But to their credit they have a huge variety of products available
all the way up to 3600 MHz high-density kits with 16 gig DIMMs.
That is to say,
if you're willing to pay more than twice,
what Geil charges for their RGB kits
on a per gig basis.
So bottom line then.
Geil's solution,
while not much of an
engineering step up from
gluing an RGB strip to the top of your memory module
is inexpensive
and boasts the strongest compatibility with older systems
and off the shelf lighting control kits.
G.Skill, is the most feature rich
but relies on more limited platform support
for anything but the stock rainbow wave animation
and corsair strikes a fine balance between broader compatibility
and eliminating cable clutter.
So the answer then,
to the big question,
as usual,
is I guess it depends.
Do you need both a Mac and a PC for the
different tasks that you do or do you have
your own home computer and a work
assigned laptop that you need to use at
the same time?
Well forget about having two keyboards and two mice that's stupid.
Synergy allows you to share one mouse and keyboard between two
or more computers so you'll no longer get
confused about which keyboard or mouse
is for which and it even works across
multiple operating systems.
Windows, Mac and Linux.
There's a basic and a pro
version with one-time payment and
lifetime access to features like
a clipboard that shares between the
computers, dragging and dropping files
between the computers, the ability to set up hotkeys and more.
You can use our link in the video description
to save ten percent on Synergy today.
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