<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>otter-in-a-suit</author><text>The state of RGB is such a nightmare, and I am very glad OpenRGB exists.&lt;p&gt;If I wanted to control all LEDs on my relatively new &amp;quot;Gaming&amp;quot; PC (Windows 10), I&amp;#x27;d normally need software from Gigabyte for the GPU (which straight up doesn&amp;#x27;t work [0]), Ducky for the keyboard, a no-name Corsair knockoff software where the name escapes me for the mouse, actual Corsair software for the fans, and NZXT for the AIO.&lt;p&gt;All of them are not only proprietary, they also use a ton of resources and often times cannot be run in parallel, presumably because they try to talk to the same devices (but never all of them!) - analog to an I2C device that only allows one process to access it at a time. Difference being, there is nothing stopping me from trying - everything will just freeze.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s fascinating - for something as simple as a bunch of LEDs, these companies must have spent millions of developer hours to produce such heaping piles of garbage - and OpenRGB proves all of them wrong.&lt;p&gt;[0] If anyone knows of a way to control at least the LED backlight on a Gigabyte Auorus XTREME 3080 (ideally the little LCD as well) - please let me know - OpenRGB can&amp;#x27;t do it. The Gigabyte software is so unbelievably broken that it doesn&amp;#x27;t even recognize the GPU, and I feel like I&amp;#x27;ve tried every workaround under the sun. I am unfortunately not very well versed in the Windows world.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.org/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>_Microft</author><text>Does anyone know how LEDs built into RAM modules are controlled from a hardware point of view? Can you just send control information over the channels that data to be stored in memory also uses to get into the module? Does it mean that you need to install drivers for them? What happens if you do not?&lt;p&gt;Update: DDR4 modules seem to have pins for a built-in SMB&amp;#x2F;I2C bus. Maybe this is used for controlling the LEDs. &amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F; It looks like it:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;aiwrt2&amp;#x2F;how_does_rgb_led_control_work_for_dram&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;aiwrt2&amp;#x2F;how_does_r...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;CalcProgrammer1&amp;#x2F;KeyboardVisualizer&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;85#note_76665251&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;CalcProgrammer1&amp;#x2F;KeyboardVisualizer&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issu...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>OpenRGB: Open-source RGB lighting control</title><url>https://openrgb.org/</url></story>