G.Skill’s new Trident Z memory blends face-melting speeds with multi-colored LEDs

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You can’t get them quite in time for the holidays, but PC enthusiasts take note: G.Skill just announced blazing-fast new Trident Z DDR4 RAM kits with customizable RGB lighting. Yes, LED lights on your memory.

The new Trident Z RGB Series memory kits require no extra power connections to light up the LEDs, which sit atop the heatspreader design. The new G.Skill RAM rolls out in mid-January 2017.

Why this mattters: G.Skill isn’t the first company to come out with fancy LED RAM. Corsair's Vengeance line-up offers patriotic, single-color red, white, or blue models. Geil is also working on RGB LED lighting for RAM that can change colors, but it requires extra power connectors. Geil’s RAM also relies on motherboard OEMs to add built-in support for controlling the colors and lighting patterns, according to Tom’s Hardware. G.Skill’s multi-hued Trident Z RGB Series, by comparison, won’t have these problems—most notably the need for extra cables.

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