Right here’s a quickie nonetheless a goodie I needed to pass on. At the Asus gross sales jam at CES 2024, I witnessed a uncomplicated, but shapely motherboard innovation that, in retrospect, I’m skittish I’ve never viewed sooner than.
It’s all about making determined your PC’s RAM is successfully seated. As veteran PC builders absolute self belief know — and contemporary PC builders absolute self belief curse — improperly seated memory kits can trigger all kinds of pesky issues and may maybe maybe be very subtle to glimpse in the second. Worse, reckoning on the form of CPU cooler you’re the usage of, attending to your installed RAM to take a look at if it’s successfully inserted may maybe maybe be a huge headache whereas troubleshooting.
Asus PR manager Juan Jose Guerrero knowledgeable me that most of the toughen calls the firm receives may maybe maybe be traced again to this singular tense self-discipline. So in the firm’s contemporary Z790 motherboards, Asus determined to take care of it head-on.
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Gaze the shrimp orange LED indicator light next to the DIMM slots on the board? That detects when there are memory modules inserted into your slots, and in the event that they aren’t fully inserted, the light remains on. In the event that they’re peachy-alive to, the LED is disabled so that you are going to be ready to dispute at a sight that the complete lot’s chilly. (Even as you’re inserting a dual-channel memory equipment right into a quad-channel make, it keys off the 2 major DIMM slots.)
I’d contain saved hours of my life and ounces of blood disassembling past DIY adventures if this now-no-brainer feature became on hand sooner than. Again: How has nobody figuring out to be this? Hindsight is 20/20 I wager.
As soon as your RAM is in and your PC is booted, the identical light also indicates that your GPU, RAM, graphics card, and storage are all working successfully throughout startup. That shrimp LED is an true champ! And it pairs nicely with other Asus quality-of-life substances devour a PCIe swiftly-birth button and a “Q-Latch” that secures M.2 SSDs with out the use of extra instruments.
They’re all chanced on in every Asus Z790 refresh ROG and TUF motherboard launched since final Computex. It’s my first time seeing it in scramble and I comely had to bawl it out.
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Author: Brad Chacos, Govt editor
Brad Chacos spends his days digging thru desktop PCs and tweeting too mighty. He specializes in graphics cards and gaming, nonetheless covers the complete lot from security to Windows guidelines and all formula of PC hardware.
