Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by jonhohle on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:23PM
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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?
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Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by whalesalad on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:34PM
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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.
Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by scns on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:31PM
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AsRock offers the Taichi Lite mobos without RGB and ~30$ cheaper IIRC.
[edit] https://www.anandtech.com/show/18891/asrock-unveils-z790-and...
Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by Const-me on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:44PM
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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.
Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by justsomehnguy on Monday August 07, 2023 @04:32PM
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Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation
by unethical_ban on Monday August 07, 2023 @01:33PM
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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.