yeah this new SSD definitely looked like something out of a sci-fi film we're
definitely getting into this really interesting territory of RGB
experimentation and I personally don't mind it everything my water-cooled
system is lit up so why not an SSD now previous RGB drives from TeamGroup had
some issues with actual thermal throttling where the RGB was too hot and
was heating up demand so let's see if this is the case with the new Delta Max
RGB SSD after this the be quiet pure base 500 is a perfectly sized handsome
mid tower with the usual silent properties on the front panel and foam
on the interior with to quality fans included plus a modular top section to
expand the cooling potential give you Hardware a new home with a pure bass 500
alright so first let's go over the basics the SSD comes in one terabyte 500
gigabytes and 250 gigabyte capacities $149 for the one terabyte drive is kind
of expensive but the whole RGB element is quite unique and you are praying
premium for it the top plate is like the blue and reflective looks great even
without lighting it is thicker though then your non RGB standard SSDs it comes
with two micro USB cables one for 5 volt a RGB motherboard sync and one for USB 2
that goes into your motherboard and gives us that spinning rainbow effect
without any software control plugged in the team group logo is dead center with
Delta max text in the bottom right as you can see the RGB illumination is very
unique spanning the full top plate there is a bit of visual grain on the surface
too with LEDs slightly visible on the edges of the body and this is the way so
they are far away as possible from demand and the controller and all the
heat is being generated on the actual corners and not in the center I think
this looks much better versus the previous Delta R GB SSD that had just
way too much going on with that top plate so I'm happy to see they've
improved and cleaned up the design with the Delta max now this Drive is not an
LCD screen but I feel like we might see that in the future and I recently
reviewed the iBUYPOWER at the element enclosure with a transparent LCD on a
side panel and I feel like it's just a matter of time until that type of
technology and implementation of some sort of customization gets onto the SSD
market because you know companies have to compete who has the fanciest and
pointless bling but I will say it's not the prettiest thing with that massive TG
logo in the center I think it would have looked better without it
plus my model has this large white particle under the shiny top not very
appealing once you notice it it is invisible when the driver is off but
unfortunately you're not buying this drive to turn off the illumination now
all the color effects will be determined by your motherboard software and since
the LEDs are located on top and bottom but not on the sides pretty much any
effect you apply kind of looks the same with just a change of direction and
speed which is why I prefer the spinning rainbow effect or full solid colors that
look vibrant and uniform as for performance it's pretty standard for
sata based SSD consistent while copying my 100 gigabyte folder and speeds are
not affected when RGB is enabled so there is no throttling of the drive with
all that illumination enabled unlike on their previous gen SSDs also looks like
you're not getting any faster read and write performance versus the previous
gen Drive just a prettier package and an up-to-date RGB connector but check this
out guys no hardware app can actually read the temperature of the drive which
is suspicious but our thermal camera reveals the truth you can see the hot
top and bottom edges get to over 50 degrees Celsius which is a little toasty
with the area over the controller hovering around 34 degrees Celsius now
this is the shot with RGB disabled and that controller area had cooled to 28
degrees Celsius with no more hot edges so in our testing the drive does not
throttle with RGB as heat is generated on the edges but it does get hot and the
second piece of this whole RGB puzzle is the new extreme memory I have the 16
gigabyte 4000 mega Hertz kit with the same blue mirror finish looks pretty
awesome and the intent here is similar to that of the SSD by illuminating as
much of the body as possible and the end result is a very unique looking RAM area
so instead of just illuminating top section like we see on most RGB Ram the
sides line up as well which would be pointless if you have the sticks right
next to each other but you can actually see the diffusion piece from top and the
bottom unfortunately the uniformity is
no very consistent and individual LEDs are
visible in that mid section where you have cycling of colors for example but
otherwise the static effect is absolutely gorgeous and also since the
motherboard automatically picks up the RAM for color sync no cables are needed
for the light show but everything in my system is much
brighter than this new extreme memory now because of the mirror finish you can
see other light sources bouncing off that create a very cool effect and
surprise surprise no temperature sensor detected just as with the SSD and I
really gotta give it to team groups for trying something new in the space of
SSDs and RAM the memory is a bit dull and not as bright as others but still
stands out because of the whole mirror finish while the SSD guts are pretty
basic but that whole visual top is absolutely gorgeous but I'm thinking if
you're buying multiple of those drives you'll have a hard time daisy chaining
those argb connectors unless you have multiple 5-volt aRGB headers on the
motherboard but still something to keep in mind alright that's it RGB is still
insane and it's only the beginning of 2020 let me know if you guys agree and
if you prefer and like what I showed you guys here today I'm three tree thanks
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