When it comes to RGB lighting there is no question that it is the hot thing in the custom PC building world. Motherboards have started bundling RGB controllers using manufacturer specific software and if you are lucky you’ll get one or two RGB headers allowing you to expand the light show.

Unfortunately, RGB is still the Wild West when it comes to expanding the ecosystem. There are certain RGB memory modules that don’t work on RGB enabled motherboards. Lighted keyboards and mice cannot sync with other components and if you are using video cards from different manufacturers there is a good chance the lighting controls required separate software packages to work.

What ends up happening is that instead of enjoying different patterns you start setting your components to a single color and hope the multitude of software packages all load and play nice together.

This is where the SilverStone LSB02 Multifunction Addressable RGB Control Box comes in offering an external hardware based RGB controller and In what I might consider one of my longest real world product reviews ever let’s check out the SST-LSB02