All my new ASUS boards fortunately have a stealth mode that defeats all onboard RGB. Unfortunately my gaming pc still looks like the SF pride parade because the dimm’s are RGB. My latest workstation though just has regular ripjaw’s so it’s nice and stealthy.

I’ve never understood the idea of RGB DIMMs. Can they be configured to show useful information about the stick (access, writes, parity errors, bus speed) or is it just for show?

Just for show and requires software to configure. Fortunately tools like openRGB exist but I’d prefer off by default or a physical switch. That was a nice element of a resent ASRock Taichi card I picked up - it has a physical switch to turn off RGB.

AsRock offers the Taichi Lite mobos without RGB and ~30$ cheaper IIRC.

[edit] https://www.anandtech.com/show/18891/asrock-unveils-z790-and...

I have a theory that hardware vendors are making Christmas tree-inspired products trying to segment the market between gamers and professionals.

Gaming hardware is typically pretty good in terms of performance/dollar. However, similar computers without all these LEDs marketed as workstations are more profitable for the manufacturers.

Just for show. I like some white LEDs in the case, and so I have some acrylic artwork mounted on the PCI bracket under the GPU and lighted RAM.

> parity errors

I have some bad news for you...

I miss when cases looked really cool and advanced instead of the modern "it's a glass cube with rainbow lights" look. Still think the Cooler Master Cosmos II is the best-looking PC case ever made.