Lately an increasing number of products with RGB lighting is being released, whereas it doesn’t matter whether you’re looking at graphics cards, cases or even peripherals. When it comes to memory kits, there are quite a few vendors already offering modules with lighting that shines in a single color. G.Skill has now come up with their first RGB kit which should allow for the colors to be changed individually.


Each module features a RGB LED bar that sits at the top of the heatspreader. At the moment the kits can only be used in rainbow wave mode and if you want to change that you’d have to wait until the suitable software is available. Furthermore it should then be possible to change the modes to glowing, heart beat and waving as well.

Since G.Skill’s new RGB series belongs to their TridentZ series, there is a 10-layer PCB and thanks to hand-picked ICs very high frequencies can be achieved. So far the new RGB modules are specced at DDR4-4266 and Intel XMP 2.0 is supported.

In our opinion those are really interesting modules, yet the simple fact, that there is no possibility to change the modes yet makes the whole RGB lighting feature pretty useless for now. We’re also curious to find out how the software will work. Are there connectors on the module to control the lighting via USB or did G.Skill come up with an other solution to this problem. So far it looks like these modules are simply not finished yet, looking at them from the angle of being able to change the colors.






Source: Hexus