Simple RGB Question - Hopefully

[ChrisLoudon]

Hi guys,

 

Not new to PC building but pretty new to RGB.

 

I have an MSI Z790 with 3 x 3pin RGB Headers feeding the following:

 

2 x EK Kinetic Pump / Res Combos

Gigabyte 4090 with EK Block

EK CPU Block

2 Sticks of Corsair RGB Ram

8 x lian-li uni sl120 inf

 

The EK pump / res units + GPU + CPU block are connected with a 4 way splitter.

 

4 Fans are on another 4 way splitter and the other 4 fans on a final 4 way splitter.

 

The above fully populates the 3 available mobo headers.

 

Question 1 - Is the above the correct way of wiring things up.

 

Question 2 - Do I need to install multiple RGB software utilities to get the most out of each component? I installed MSI Mystic Light and while I get some functionality, I can't control the RAM OR anything individually.

 

Question 3 - Should I be able to control the lighting of items on a splitter individually? Both of my pump / res combos are on the same header but ideally I would like to control their RGB colours separately. They are on different cooling loops with different colour coolant.

 

Cheers

 

C

 

[PcBeExpensive]

27 minutes ago, ChrisLoudon said:

Hi guys,

 

Not new to PC building but pretty new to RGB.

 

I have an MSI Z790 with 3 x 3pin RGB Headers feeding the following:

 

2 x EK Kinetic Pump / Res Combos

Gigabyte 4090 with EK Block

EK CPU Block

2 Sticks of Corsair RGB Ram

8 x lian-li uni sl120 inf

 

The EK pump / res units + GPU + CPU block are connected with a 4 way splitter.

 

4 Fans are on another 4 way splitter and the other 4 fans on a final 4 way splitter.

 

The above fully populates the 3 available mobo headers.

 

Question 1 - Is the above the correct way of wiring things up.

 

Question 2 - Do I need to install multiple RGB software utilities to get the most out of each component? I installed MSI Mystic Light and while I get some functionality, I can't control the RAM OR anything individually.

 

Question 3 - Should I be able to control the lighting of items on a splitter individually? Both of my pump / res combos are on the same header but ideally I would like to control their RGB colours separately. They are on different cooling loops with different colour coolant.

 

Cheers

 

C

 

I don't think you can control the lighting seperately with splitters as they are still all only going to the one header.  For corsair RAM you need ICUE, sorry. The other and maybe cheaper way you could do it is just get an ARGB/PWM hub.

[thrasher_565]

to do thing "individually" each thing need a header that can be controlled individually. ether by mb header or argb controllers.

not all software can be installed and work with each other...

[SorryBella]

11 hours ago, ChrisLoudon said:

Do I need to install multiple RGB software utilities to get the most out of each component? I installed MSI Mystic Light and while I get some functionality, I can't control the RAM OR anything individually.

This is where i would personally use SignalRGB. I personally used it to link up [Perfect Liar].

4 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

to do thing "individually" each thing need a header that can be controlled individually.

We need to map LED by LED in the case of a daisy chain, this is also an advantage of Signal, the ability to add custom LED count in a pretty intuitive manner. Although OpenRGB also have that in too.

[ChrisLoudon]

1 hour ago, SorryBella said:

This is where i would personally use SignalRGB. I personally used it to link up [Perfect Liar].

Thanks for all the info.

 

SignalRGB looks promising. Does it support EKWB kit? Can't find any mention of EK on their compatibility checker.