Industry observers note that it’s so bad that firms like V-Color are selling single DIMMs with dummy modules, just so the inside of your PC doesn’t look so pathetic. Corsair is getting in on that action with a little extra flair. The fresh Shugo kit includes a teeny tiny painting on each DIMM, and both dummy RAM sticks. Neat? Buying memory in 2026 is a painful process.
Industry observers note that each heat spreader has tiny micro-drilled holes to allow red or pink lights to come through at artistic points. The RAM is 6000MHz, so on the speedier side but not breaking records. Corsair says each kit is hand-selected with highly binned parts designed for overclocking. In addition to the usual LED lighting, these Shugo DDR5 sticks come with either an unreasonably intimidating samurai (“Onyx Blade”) or a more toned-down woman silhouette in profile (“Sakura Noa”) on the heat spreaders.
According to the latest update, no? Okay then. I tried to find out who designed the imagery on the Shugo kits, but Corsair’s promotional material only mentions that they were “developed in conjunction with user base artists.” Uh, cool, maybe you want to tell us which artists were responsible for the two designs?
In a fresh development, and since there’s a tiny painting on the side that’s kind of the whole point of this, it seems like that’s a nice pack-in. At $533.99, the kit is running about $100 more than the current street price for Corsair’s other 32GB DDR5 kits, even with fancy RGB lighting. Both sets come with two 16GB DIMMs and two of Corsair’s Light Enhancement Kit modules — dummy RAM to make your PC look more filled out.
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