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posted by martyb on Sunday April 02 2017, @06:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-that-really-such-a-bright-idea? dept.

Corsair has released its first Vengeance RGB DRAM modules, which come with heat spreaders that feature LED lighting that can be controlled by Corsair Link software or GIGABYTE'S RGB Fusion app:

Corsair last week started to sell its first Vengeance RGB memory modules, equipped with full sets of RGB LEDs that can change their colors using OS software. Right now Corsair offers DDR4-2666 and DDR4-3000 modules, but eventually we expect the Vengeance RGB lineup will be expanded.

Just like other Vengeance memory modules, the Vengeance RGB DIMMs are based on Corsair's custom PCBs as well as preselected ICs. The modules come with aluminum heat spreaders featuring RGB LEDs that can change colors dynamically using the Corsair Link software, allowing users to synchronize colors of RGB lighting of their DIMMs and specific motherboard brands. Lighting of each module can be controlled separately as well. The lighting of the Vengeance RGB can also be controlled using GIGABYTE's RGB Fusion app and Corsair states that eventually other producers of LED-controlling software are expected to follow.


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  • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday April 02 2017, @11:15AM (1 child)

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Sunday April 02 2017, @11:15AM (#487898)

    Even ECC done in hardware has a performance penalty.

    You might as well buy an old Xeon server with all the extra CPU cycles you are going to burn trying it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @07:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @07:17PM (#487999)

    At work, the machines with ECC do catch errors. On the non-ECC machines, we've seen weirdness like corrupt *.h files causing compile fails. Sometimes the corruption is only in memory; the copy on disk is good.

    We've gotten rid of most of the non-ECC machines. New developers get 32 gigabytes of ECC memory as of last year; it might be 64 now. It goes with a pair of Xeon chips. I think it can be a total of 12 to 32 cores depending on the chips. (some HP 820 or HP 840 workstation I think... an 8xx at least)