There's just something about the branding that sounds awkward. iGame is yet another one of those iSomething products that, years after the fact, follow Apple's iMac naming convention to the point where it just comes off as tacky and outdated. The other brand, ColorFire, is a bit too much for the plain vanilla OEM market it targets. Aside from the name, I like the ColorFire series for lacking unnecessary heat spreaders and omitting LED lighting.
The memory looks fine. Some people might think the branding is tacky, but I don't particularly care about the looks. The RGB RAM wouldn't be the cheapest kit due to additional cost(s) on the lighting effects, so it's not something that I'd be likely to ever add to a shopping cart since it's just plain outside my ideal price range.
I will say though, with the plethora of new memory makers entering the scene, I will say that I'd more likely stick to the known memory maker names than Colorful, not out of spite or brand loyalty, but because of memory verification and qualified vendor lists provided by motherboard manufacturers. Colorful's new to the scene, so it may take some time (possibly years) before their memory is used in validating timings on motherboards moving forward.
Sticking to a cheap no-heatspreader G.Skill set for $1 or $2 more would still be a safer investment in terms of wider compatibility across different motherboard makers than getting a possibly slightly cheaper Colorfire memory set.
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Hxx - Monday, October 1, 2018 - link
"These DIMMs are based on a custom PCB designed to handle [..] RGB lighting" - yes finally we get RGB for performance gains.PeachNCream - Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - link
There's just something about the branding that sounds awkward. iGame is yet another one of those iSomething products that, years after the fact, follow Apple's iMac naming convention to the point where it just comes off as tacky and outdated. The other brand, ColorFire, is a bit too much for the plain vanilla OEM market it targets. Aside from the name, I like the ColorFire series for lacking unnecessary heat spreaders and omitting LED lighting.JoeyJoJo123 - Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - link
The memory looks fine. Some people might think the branding is tacky, but I don't particularly care about the looks. The RGB RAM wouldn't be the cheapest kit due to additional cost(s) on the lighting effects, so it's not something that I'd be likely to ever add to a shopping cart since it's just plain outside my ideal price range.I will say though, with the plethora of new memory makers entering the scene, I will say that I'd more likely stick to the known memory maker names than Colorful, not out of spite or brand loyalty, but because of memory verification and qualified vendor lists provided by motherboard manufacturers. Colorful's new to the scene, so it may take some time (possibly years) before their memory is used in validating timings on motherboards moving forward.
Sticking to a cheap no-heatspreader G.Skill set for $1 or $2 more would still be a safer investment in terms of wider compatibility across different motherboard makers than getting a possibly slightly cheaper Colorfire memory set.