If you're going to do something as utterly ridiculous as adding tiny Picatinny rails to your DIMMs, the least you could do is release a range of tiny Picatinny accessories to attach to said rails.
Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife heat spreaders are where it's at. Although you do have to be careful as coagulated blood can be a bugger to clean off the pins.
Seriously, what rubbish is this?! The extra expense making this just makes me cross and makes me feel like I'm wasting my money. The fact that, rather than thermal efficiency, R&D time is being spent making the RAM look like a minature G36 makes me wonder whether we even need heat spreaders in modern RAM.
RAM is expensive enough without this rubbish, take it away and bring it back sensible. That or have two product lines with the same boards - one with the silly spreader for people who care about aesthetics (I admit, there's a market and some people love to make a cool looking PC, fair enough) and one with a basic spreader for those of us who want performance but don't care about turning the inside of our PCs into a dolls house / armoury and don't want to pay for it.
"makes me wonder whether we even need heat spreaders in modern RAM."
No. The only time heatsinks for DIMMs was EVER necessary was in the days of DDR2 FBDIMMs. For consumer devices, ramsinks have always been 100% cosmetic.
Talk about targetted marketing... I guess Trump has proved the number of sickos in the US signed up to the NRA who would buy this crap for the "patriotism".
Hell, why not just go the whole hog and market it as the "Parkland FTW" edition. :(
Seriously, this company deserves to be social media bombed and shamed into bankruptcy for this utter idiocy, as well as for the incredible insensitivity in timing this release.
Of course, because whenever anyone white gets murdered, they handwring and say "if only the victims had also had an assault rifle to defend themselves, they wouldn''t have died", yet they are curiously silent when innocent black men are gunned down, especially by police - surely they should be vocally supporting pro-actively arming the black community if Black Lives Matter too?
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edzieba - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link
If you're going to do something as utterly ridiculous as adding tiny Picatinny rails to your DIMMs, the least you could do is release a range of tiny Picatinny accessories to attach to said rails.Hurr Durr - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link
Rails are for cowards. Real memory producers put serrated blades there, in keeping with the Commando theme.philehidiot - Tuesday, February 27, 2018 - link
Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife heat spreaders are where it's at. Although you do have to be careful as coagulated blood can be a bugger to clean off the pins.Seriously, what rubbish is this?! The extra expense making this just makes me cross and makes me feel like I'm wasting my money. The fact that, rather than thermal efficiency, R&D time is being spent making the RAM look like a minature G36 makes me wonder whether we even need heat spreaders in modern RAM.
RAM is expensive enough without this rubbish, take it away and bring it back sensible. That or have two product lines with the same boards - one with the silly spreader for people who care about aesthetics (I admit, there's a market and some people love to make a cool looking PC, fair enough) and one with a basic spreader for those of us who want performance but don't care about turning the inside of our PCs into a dolls house / armoury and don't want to pay for it.
edzieba - Friday, March 2, 2018 - link
"makes me wonder whether we even need heat spreaders in modern RAM."No. The only time heatsinks for DIMMs was EVER necessary was in the days of DDR2 FBDIMMs. For consumer devices, ramsinks have always been 100% cosmetic.
Eliadbu - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link
I still prefer my G. Skill trident Z 3200 MHZ at CL 14-14-14-34 , which I can push even further .iter - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link
Great touch that fancy design element on the top - ensuring poor cooler compatibility.shabby - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link
Looks very tactical...Eliadbu - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link
Do you mean Tacticool ?RaistlinZ - Monday, February 26, 2018 - link
Why are these timings so awful?PeachNCream - Wednesday, February 28, 2018 - link
Those heat spreaders look juvenile.asmian - Wednesday, February 28, 2018 - link
Talk about targetted marketing... I guess Trump has proved the number of sickos in the US signed up to the NRA who would buy this crap for the "patriotism".Hell, why not just go the whole hog and market it as the "Parkland FTW" edition. :(
Seriously, this company deserves to be social media bombed and shamed into bankruptcy for this utter idiocy, as well as for the incredible insensitivity in timing this release.
Hurr Durr - Wednesday, February 28, 2018 - link
NRA is the last stand of implicit whiteness, and is to be cherished as such.asmian - Thursday, March 1, 2018 - link
Of course, because whenever anyone white gets murdered, they handwring and say "if only the victims had also had an assault rifle to defend themselves, they wouldn''t have died", yet they are curiously silent when innocent black men are gunned down, especially by police - surely they should be vocally supporting pro-actively arming the black community if Black Lives Matter too?/sarcasm + /outrage