Memory Activity LEDs 403
Azert writes "Since a few months almost every popular memory maker includes heatspreaders with their fastest memory modules. Probably Corsair is setting a new fashion with their new line of memory with memory activity LEDs
XMS ProSeries modules feature a row of LED's on the top edge that display real-time memory activity level. Each memory bank has a row of nine dedicated activity LED's that alight as the level of memory activity increases. 512 Mbyte XMS ProSeries modules, with two banks, have a total of 18 activity LED's in green, yellow and red."
So... (Score:5, Funny)
ATTENTION (Score:5, Funny)
Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is
allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away
and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working
intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked
anderswhere! Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished
the blinkenlights.
Pong? (Score:5, Funny)
Blinkenlights! (Score:5, Funny)
Just what I need... (Score:5, Funny)
What is wrong with people who buy this crap? It's so gaudy. Oh my god, LEDs! That's so cool!
Case modders have the attention spans of 3-year-olds who hit every button in the elevator.
XMS? EMS? (Score:4, Funny)
I want a 512 Mbyte LIM ProSeries module goddamit!
What's next, dipswitches? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"heatspreader"? (Score:5, Funny)
What in the hell is a "heatspreader"?
An Eskimo hooker.
Obligatory (Score:1, Funny)
Re:CM-5? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Just what I need... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The beginning of the end? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh my (Score:5, Funny)
Nightmare? Can't you remember the pure joy of upgrading your emm386.exe to Quarterdecks ultra-super-space-saving QEMM386, watching "Optimize" do its trick (three reboots, right?) and having saved another forty kilobytes of precious low memory, raising your fist to the sky screaming yeeeaaaaaahhh! ?
Well, I can! I can remember my jaw dropping and drool gushing out when the same Quarterdeck QEMM386 (May God be merciful upon its memory) rebooted my lovely DOS in less than 5 seconds, thanks to the awesome Quarterdeck Quickboot!
Where will this insanity end? (Score:5, Funny)
Mmm... more LEDs! (Score:5, Funny)
I tell ya thems were the days sonny. It was always good to see my CPU usage back then... it helped relieve some of the stress of having to walk to school, uphill both ways, every day of the week, too, none of this "weekday" crap. That's how it was and WE LIKED IT, WE LOVED IT!
What an incredible advance! (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone knows that you can tell the speed and worth of a server based on the number of blinking lights on the front of the display. Moving our switches up higher in the rack so that they were more visible did us a ton of good. Sounds like this whole memory lights thing may be the killer app that lets us charge for data center tours now!
Re:Blinkenlights! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:colors (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
n.
1. The quality that makes something laughable or
amusing; funniness: could not see the humor of the situation.
2. That which is intended to induce laughter or amusement: a writer skilled at crafting humor.
3. The ability to perceive, enjoy, or express
what is amusing, comical, incongruous, or absurd.
One and two apply to the original post, three is what you are lacking.
i'll wait (Score:3, Funny)
Re:newsdry? (Score:2, Funny)
"Pretty soon"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:top down picture (Score:2, Funny)
Soon, RAMmodding will be all the rage. Get them really big, bright LEDs installed on the RAM.
And think of the gaming advantages, if you have bright enough LEDs, and can write an app to control them, you can flash them at the frequencies that induce seizures. Think of it! You can mess with other players at the LAN party and gain a tactical advantage as your opponents lay twitching and drooling by their computers.
Re:except ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Casemodding won't be cool when it's the standar (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pong? (Score:5, Funny)
Hook it up.
W.O.P.R. (Score:2, Funny)
yay.
Re:Sounds like (Score:2, Funny)
How soon before fans are quired... (Score:4, Funny)
STOP the Madness!
3/4 million lights on my memory (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just what I need... (Score:3, Funny)
In America, we put stickers/emblems/phrases on cars to show how much this car is enhanced from a "regular" car.
This is why my mind boggled when I saw a factory emblem on a car that said "Single Cam".
That's like saying "Steering Wheel" or even "Tires".
Unless it's on a rotary engined car and then I'd be impressed as to how someone engineered a camshaft to run in a rotary engine.
Reminds me of a line from a movie "Plato, Socrates... Morons"
Re:Casemodding won't be cool... (Score:2, Funny)
People who rice up their PCs should be locked in a large cage with people who rice up their cars
No way! The last time that happended 2 Fast 2 Furious was created. Think of the consequences, man!
Re:Encouraging emi/rfi? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Just what I need... (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe, but that's still a pretty fucking tall 3 year old.
Re:Blinkenlights! (Score:3, Funny)
H*R Rocks!
Bill
Re:ATTENTION (Score:3, Funny)
(Nothing against germans, or even for americans..I just find the american one more funny)
Here it is from foldoc [ic.ac.uk]:
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und
mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk,
blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht
fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken
sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets
muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.