Just if you thought the head of RAM insanity was chucking a load of LED lights into the combination, Crucial, or quite their gaming-orientated Ballistix division, have gone one step additional. Say whats up to the 3D-printable Ballistix Tactical Tracer RGB DDR4 gaming RAM. That’s proper. You can 3D-print your individual gentle bar onto every 8GB or 16GB module – and you are able to do it proper now.
Available now with speeds as much as 3000 MT/s (mega transfers per second – or 3000 million transfers/second, to place a quantity on every ‘mega’), the Ballistix Tactical Tracer RGB RAM is available in equipment densities as much as 64GB and every stick has its personal restricted lifetime guarantee (until you’re in Germany, during which case you solely get a 10-year guarantee from date of buy).
You don’t need to 3D-print your individual gentle bar, in fact – common Ballistix-branded RGB bars are additionally out there – however in case you’re into case modding or simply fancy the thought of getting Horace using atop your RAM whereas flashing fluorescent yellow, nicely now you’ll be able to. Just comply with the directions on Ballistix’s website.
There are 16 RGB LEDs in whole on every Ballistix Tactical Tracer module, divided into eight zones. You’ll want to make use of Ballistix’s MOD Utility software program to manage your RGB LEDs and alter their brightness, however Ballistix say you may also use your motherboard’s software program (reminiscent of Asus’ Aura tech, MSI’s Mystic Light, Gigabyte’s Aorus Graphics Engine and others) to sync your Tactical Tracer RGB gentle scheme with different parts in your PC.
You additionally get all of your different favorite Ballistix RAM options, together with XMP profiles, black course of management blocks (PCB) and customized warmth spreaders. They price a good penny, although, as a single 8GB stick will set you again £94 at time of writing (single sticks don’t appear to be out there within the US proper now), whereas a 16GB equipment consisting of two 8GB sticks prices £188 / $220.
