Phanteks NEON Digital-RGB LED Strip M5, white – 1x 550mm Smooth lighting strip, full-color range, flexible mounting

Pros: Looks great, excellent light diffusion with minimal hotspots, syncs well to P500A case lighting. The little mounts are sized to fit a motherboard standoff so it makes using the 550mm Length strip relatively easy (check Cons section)

Most of the Cons are kinda nitpicks to be honest.

Cons: 1) This is the only Con I wouldn't count as a nitpick. These things are flippin' T A L L . Like, 15mm or so tall. If your Motherboard has Side-Facing SATA ports like the MSI B550 Tomahawk in the picture, you will lose access to half of those ports. Be wary of this if you are not using any M.2 storage, or have a ton of SATA Drives.

2) The connector cables on either end of the strip are a little weird in terms of length. A weird mix of annoying to hide, but also extremely short. I had to redo the layout of the RGB wiring in my case in order to get it all to work properly with the given length. The extra cable included in the kit is not an extension cable, but rather a 3pin RGB adapter for Motherboard control.


3) For the 550mm Length, they need to add more of those little vertical mounts. the kit comes with 3x 90degree turn mounts (1 used), 3x vertical mounts (all 3 used to mount like in the photo), and 3x flat mounts (think as if you were placing it on the floor of the case, which seems like a much more niche use). The 550mm Length Strip is literally designed to wrap around an ATX motherboard, so not having at least 1 extra vertical mount to use up each standoff on those 2 sides just seems wrong to me.


4) It's a little hard to get perfectly straight. There are a bunch of tiny little curves still in the strip which is basically just a minor annoyance. Maybe if I re-positioned a couple of those vertical mounts it would be a bit better.

Overall Review: Definitely give it a shot. For the price, it's pretty nice not gonna lie.

They look pretty dang good, not quite as luminous as in the product photos, or even the ones I included (maybe it's a camera thing), but the light does hit all the way to the Side Panel and will wake you up at night should they come on (Last night's Windows Update did me dirty with this).

Overall, not a bad job Phanteks, keep up the good work.

Pros: -Easy to install

Cons: -Spots turning yellow
-The whole strip turned cream/sail color under White color setting
-3M tape does not stay long on designated spot.

Overall Review: It looks good for first month and went downhill after average use of 2nd month. My expectations weren't high in the first place and yet it disappointed me even further. Definitely don't recommend this to anybody.