Test System

Initial Setup

Once you get the Team Group T-Force Night Hawk RGB sticks installed, the fun begins. Out of the box, the T-Force Night Hawk RGB sticks change color every so often in a circuitous pattern. The LEDs glow from both the top and the sides of the sticks, so if you do not have any other LEDs in your system, these sticks will glow nicely, but if you do happen to have other RGB components or a couple RGB strips in your case, the T-Force Night Hawk RGB sticks blend in nicely, their glow just the right intensity so as not to be overpowering.


Adjusting the LEDs' pattern or color is done using ASUS's Aura Sync software. You are presented with a huge number of lighting patterns to choose from, along with the ability to change the patterns on each DIMM individually. Unfortunately, the software is currently still in development, so I am limited as to what I can show here. What I can say is that with the right version of the software, things work great and are nicely integrated within the ASUS software.

Testing Rated Speeds

With a 3000 MHz XMP speed offered using the provided XMP profile, pretty much any Intel CPU that supports DDR4 should be able to clock these DIMMS up without any issues. I installed these sticks on several platforms without running into any issues (other than LED controls not being available on non-ASUS motherboards). Like with past DRAM reviews posted within the last several months, we're pushing these sticks using the provided XMP profile along with an overclocked CPU, with 4-core load on the CPU clocking the CPU up to 4.7 GHz, while single-core loads get an even 5.0 GHz. We want to punish the RAM to see how it holds up, so only an overclocked system will do.