PSA: For those considering purchasing Corsair Vengeance LED Ram

[Tim]

I am not able to find any of this information posted in the product literature for Corsairs Vengeance LED ram modules, so I just wanted to let the community know.

The LED's on Corsair ram modules default behavior is a pulsing effect. The LED lights up bright, then slowly fades to off before pulsing back to full on. One issue with this is that the effect does not sync up with other modules, leading to each stick of ram pulsing off and on at different intervals. The other issue is with the Corsair Link software (most current version). It has, as a beta feature, the option to set the Ram LED's to static. Unfortunately this only works for the ram in the slot closest to the CPU leaving the other modules to continue pulsing.

These issues have been noted since product launch and still not fixed. The Corsair forums are, and continue to be flooded with people complaining about this. You've been warned.

 

[hal2kilo]

I am not able to find any of this information posted in the product literature for Corsairs Vengeance LED ram modules, so I just wanted to let the community know.

The LED's on Corsair ram modules default behavior is a pulsing effect. The LED lights up bright, then slowly fades to off before pulsing back to full on. One issue with this is that the effect does not sync up with other modules, leading to each stick of ram pulsing off and on at different intervals. The other issue is with the Corsair Link software (most current version). It has, as a beta feature, the option to set the Ram LED's to static. Unfortunately this only works for the ram in the slot closest to the CPU leaving the other modules to continue pulsing.

These issues have been noted since product launch and still not fixed. The Corsair forums are, and continue to be flooded with people complaining about this. You've been warned.

Seems to be a really important function.

 

[bbhaag]

I have this ram in my build. It does pulse and at first I thought that it would bother me. Then my 9 yo son started showing all his friends my new computer and everyone of them loved the pulsing ram modules. They asked what it was, what it did, why are they blinking ect. Each one of them said it reminded them of the blinking lights that computers have in the movies.
That got me thinking...yeah these kids are right. Every computer in the movies has blinking lights all over the place. So now it doesn't bother me because I think it's kind of cool that I have a computer like in the movies. The Spec Alpha case didn't discourage the look either though. haha

 

[Rubycon]

I had them in the DDR-2 days. The LEDs were multicolored and varied their activity with memory access. If the system hung the lights would go out with only the red glowing. Crucial had the Ballistix Tracers (DDR2 and DDR3) - the DDR2 modules ran extremely hot and many burned out. The DDR3 modules actually worked pretty decent.

Here's a video of my system with 12GB DDR3 Ballistix. Xeon 3520 at 4.3GHz running Prime95. Was top of the line - 7 years ago!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Pretty! Shiny! Sparkly!

I've got some Avexir DDR4 sticks, that "breath" with LED glow. Kind wierd, not sure if I like it or not.

 

[bbhaag]

Just a quick update for the OP and anyone else who reads this thread. I went ahead and downloaded Corsair Link 4 from their webpage and installed it. I set the ram led from default too static and it stopped pulsing and is a solid blue. I only have two ram sticks and neither one of them is in the slot closest to the cpu because I run them in duel channel mode. I have them populated in slots A2 and B2 on my mb. So it looks like Corsair has figured it out and it's working properly for me anyway.

I even shot a quick video showing me switching back and forth between pulsing and static.