RGB Ram that turns off RGB during Sleeep

NirK

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I was looking at Gskill trident Z, I like the look of this but I read a lot of reports of people saying the RAM RGB will not turn off during PC sleep, this would be really irritating to me, enough that I would get non RGB ram if this could not be fixed. Although most of the things I read are 3+ years old, so maybe with the newer Trident Z DDR5 they do turn off or the software has been updated to allow this?

I read that with corsair RAM, you can set it with their ICUE software, so that it has software control when in windows, then a hardware profile that it defaults to when in sleep / off. If you set the hardware profile to off / black, then the RGB RAM will switch off during sleep like it should. So although I would rather not run Icue, at least there is a solution to this with Corsair Ram and you can have all RGB off when PC is sleeping.

Can anyone confirm this for me? I would just get the Gskill Trident Z DDR5 as it looks nice but if I am going to have loads of hassle with the RGB I think I will either go for non RGB or Corsair, I would like RGB though because it looks nice but it would HAVE to turn off when PC is sleeping! From what I have seen the Gskill RGB software looks rather poor and I have not seen any confirmation of being able to turn off Gskill RGB when PC is sleeping, could not find much info about their latest Trident Z DDR5 though but lots of posts about older Gskill not turning off.
 
Can't help with the Trident but thanks for the iCue tip. I have corsair RGB that is on when sleeping but I'd ditched the software. Might reinstall to see if I can change the behaviour....
 
Yes if you google it there is a way to turn corsair RAM off during sleep, set hardware profile to blank and set software control to on, then it should default to blank / off when sleeping. Would be good if you can confirm if this is ok. I would rather not run Icue though because apparently it uses some CPU and also has conflicts with HWinfo etc.

Gskill I am not seeing any option to turn off RGB when sleeping, which is an annoyance, although I guess using hibernate could be an option as the RAM should be off when using hibernate.
 
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At the moment I can get it to do what I want but only if iCUE is running. I deleted the "hardware" profile so that it's off when it's sleeping but if I close iCUE it also goes off. I was hoping to avoid running iCUE all the time... Will have another play....
 
Think you have to run icue when it is in software mode.

But still at least with corsair it is possible... With Gskill it seems like it is impossible to get RGB to turn off when PC is sleeping, which is quite bad tbh. Other than that the Gskill looks good but that is a deal breaker for me... Unless anyone can confirm they have Gskill trident which can be switched off when PC is sleeping?
 
scotty38 said:
At the moment I can get it to do what I want but only if iCUE is running. I deleted the "hardware" profile so that it's off when it's sleeping but if I close iCUE it also goes off. I was hoping to avoid running iCUE all the time... Will have another play....
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Does it turn off when PC is sleeping? Then back on when PC is running? I think you have to have Icue switched on yes, due to it being software control. What is your CPU usage from icue? Is it a lot?
 
NirK said:
Does it turn off when PC is sleeping? Then back on when PC is running? I think you have to have Icue switched on yes, due to it being software control. What is your CPU usage from icue? Is it a lot?
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Yes off when sleeping as that's when the hardware profile takes over. It then comes on with iCUE in software mode. CPU was fine today but the reason I deleted it last time was due to high process use. Killing the process in task manager used to leave RGB running but cpu would go back to normal. Couldn't be bothered to keep doing that hence I binned it.
 
I use signalrgb for everything rgb/leds
Even though my stuffs from about 5 different manufacturers
It works on it all
No more conflicts with icue ,toughram etc when I used to
Be running rgb software from different manufacturers
All mine go off when put pc to sleep
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
I use signalrgb for everything rgb/leds
Even though my stuffs from about 5 different manufacturers
It works on it all
No more conflicts with icue ,toughram etc when I used to
Be running rgb software from different manufacturers
All mine go off when put pc to sleep
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What RAM do you have? Do you have the Gskill? I am yet to hear anyone confirm that the Gskill will go off when in sleep. I am prob going to go for the corsair because of this.
 
It might be that the new trident Z DDR5 is ok, because most comments about Gskill are a few years old and for older RAM models, but would be good to get confirmation of this from someone with the new Gskill trident Z DDR5 RAM, if you can or cannot get it to turn of the RGB when PC is in sleep.

I think using hibernate might be a solution to this as the RAM turns off in hibernate mode whereas it is still on in sleep mode, but its not ideal I would rather use sleep. Seems like a major oversight to me not having RGB that turns off in sleep mode, the corsair can do this and apparently the thermaltake toughram also does this.
 
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scotty38 said:
Yes off when sleeping as that's when the hardware profile takes over. It then comes on with iCUE in software mode. CPU was fine today but the reason I deleted it last time was due to high process use. Killing the process in task manager used to leave RGB running but cpu would go back to normal. Couldn't be bothered to keep doing that hence I binned it.
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When you have set the hardware profile (RGB off), can you then not run ICUE and use another RGB software such as Asus etc. to control the lighing when PC is on? Then without using ICUE it will still go back to the hardware profile (RGB off) when PC is sleeping? I guess when you save the hardware profile in ICUE it is permanantly saved to the RAM, unless you go back and change it again to something else? So potentially use ICUE to set the hardware profile to deal with the sleep RGB off issue, then not need to use icue after that, I guess with no ICUE (if that is the only RGB software you have) the RAM RGB will stay off, but what if using something like Asus software control it when PC is on? Can you test if the RGB is ok when PC is on using another software if you have any installed?
 
For example in my case :

Get corsair RAM
Install ICUE
Set hardware profile to off (no RGB)
uninstall or disable ICUE
Use Asus software to control RAM RGB when PC is on
When PC sleeps the hardware profile still applies (RGB off)

Would this be ok? Not sure if I will have much use for ICUE outside of the RAM and apparently it has conflicts with other software like Aida64 as well as using some CPU.
 
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True but thought mine had gone off in sleep due to the hardware profile. Will try again, maybe I got mixed up with all the messing about.
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Yes would very much appreciate anyone confirming that corsair RAM can definitely be made to have no RGB (completely off) in sleep mode. I am reasonably sure it IS possible with corsair due to the hardware profiles. On Gskill unfortunately the RGB seems to be rather primative and does not have the option to save anything to the RAM, so will likely always stay on at sleep, as well as various other reported issues with Gskill RGB, it might even default to rainbow puke which is the worse possible thing!

I had a look at the Gskill software out of interest and TBH it is one of the worst software I have ever seen so unfortunately I will have to avoid the RGB Gskill even though it looks nice and is supposed to be good RAM. Looks like corsair is the only option that I actually like the RGB and it can be turned off in sleep mode, Hibernate may fix the Gskill but I dont want to lose sleep functionality just for RGB RAM.
 
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Wing-Man said:
@NirK looks to the a good idea.
And it should work
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I guess you made your first reply then googled it and saw it should be ok? Becuase your two posts do not make sense, you said "No, that’s not an option." then you said "yes should be ok" lol.
 
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Have you tried emailing gskill
And asking them if its still an issue?

And on some asus boards the ram leds stay on
If you installed armoury crate/aura
Drove me crazy trying to figure that out
As I set them off in bios for sleep/shutdown etc
But their software over rides the bios
Had to find a setting in armoury crate to turn shutdown effect to off
If you don't have asus board not an issue anyway
But worth mentioning just in case
 
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