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Yep, worked. Good enough work around for now...

I think it was Armoury Crate messing it up. I did have that installed but never used it and never though it to be an issue. Worked fine with iCUE3. Uninstalled Armoury Crate and disabled Armoury Crate in my BIOS (that's a thing yes). Left AURA on in BIOS. Don't have AURA installed. Also, uninstalled iCUE4 and removed all traces of iCUE3/4 in "Program Files", "%APPDATA%" and "Program Data" etc... Reinstalled fresh, looks good.

No, nothing else installed to control the RGB. Noticed if I open iCUE and leave it on the "Hardware Lighting" tab for the RAM, then close it to tray, it works properly.

In iCUE3 I only used hardware mode lighting for the RAM and had it set to the colors I want. When iCUE4 runs, they only light up as up orange. When I go to the HARDWARE LIGHTING tab, the RAM turns the correct color I had previously. I can enable/disable and change the colors here. However, when I LEAVE the HARDWARE LIGHTING tab, the ram turns ORANGE. When I go to the LIGHTING EFFECTS tab, it shows orange. I can't remove the Orange. There are not lighting profiles here. I can create one and apply it, but there is no effect. I have noticed I don't see a check box option anywhere for "Enable Full Software Control" as was in iCUE3. If I QUIT iCUE the hardware lighting colors come back and work properly. iCUE 4.9.350 Vengeance RGB Pro 1.02.64

I don't have access to the drive at the moment, but as far as CrystalDiskInfo stats I can say. Trim was enabled Temperature was where it should be No SMART stats jumped out

I was able to fix the problem, although it wasn't cheap.

Support asked what the free space was, I said it was 60% full. They then said my question was being sent to another department. As a test, I tried removing a large amount of data from the drive and putting it back on. Here were the tests: 1) Starting test: 2) Removed over 400GB of data, expected speeds returned: 3) Added some data back (call it folder 1), speeds are gone: 4) Added more data back (folder 2): 5) Tried removing data put back in step 3 (folder 1): 6) Left it for a few days, a few reboots, etc...: --- Not sure if it's the expected results of the speeds to disappear at that capacity, or if the drive is defective.

Submitted support ticket #2001324280

Had the drive for just over a year. Noticing reduced write speeds. My PC specs are up to date in my profile. - Running firmware ECFM12.3 - Monitored SSD temperature, did not pass 43c during test - TRIM is enabled - MB BIOS up to date This is the drive as of today: --- This was the drive when I first installed it: --- Some other tests as of today: https://i.imgur.com/6mX2z2d.png https://i.imgur.com/BI9tIuP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lc685AU.jpg