Adata XPG Spectrix D40 32GB DDR4-3000 4x8GB Kit Review: Bling's Not the Only Thing

[Crashman]

Adata adds to the RGB-lighted memory race with its Spectrix D40 line. We check out the performance and tuneability of its AX4U300038G16-QRS to answer the question of value.

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[-Fran-]

I'm actually surprised to see some games being affected so much by the lower speed RAM and some by the tight timings.

Nice piece of information as usual.

Cheers!

 

[Onus]

Twenty or so years ago, bling took the form of windowed cases with illuminated fans (case, CPU cooler, AND PSU), and cold-cathode lighting. The latter turned into monocolor LED light strips and/or spots, and most coolers and all but garbage PSU-shaped objects relinquished the lighted fans.
Then, motherboards started introducing LED effects, including "breathing" and pulsing. Now we've got this; more and more components offer RGB lighting.
None of it makes a PC so much as 1MHz faster. How many more watts does a fully blinged-out PC slurp from the wall? My guess is somewhere in the range of 1d4+1.

 

[BaRoMeTrIc]

come on adata, stop with the red heatspreaders for your rgb ram. NO ONE wants red in a build with rgb. Stick with black, grey, and white.

 

[BaRoMeTrIc]

Twenty or so years ago, bling took the form of windowed cases with illuminated fans (case, CPU cooler, AND PSU), and cold-cathode lighting. The latter turned into monocolor LED light strips and/or spots, and most coolers and all but garbage PSU-shaped objects relinquished the lighted fans.
Then, motherboards started introducing LED effects, including "breathing" and pulsing. Now we've got this; more and more components offer RGB lighting.
None of it makes a PC so much as 1MHz faster. How many more watts does a fully blinged-out PC slurp from the wall? My guess is somewhere in the range of 1d4+1.

Custom PC building is more than just making a functional high performance gaming pc., It's an artistic expression. at least for myself and many others it is. It's fine to just want a plain functional pc, but for many others we put a lot of time and effort into making our pcs a showpiece.