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."
Mod this up, Europeans! (Score:-1, Insightful)
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America, eh folks? It's a pretty screwed up place. Unfortunately, but not indefinitely, the USA's weapons of mass destruction make it the most powerful country in the world (militarily). As a result, it helps to be aware of American society and fit into it, and our quick 8-step guide should have you on the path to burger-munching enlightenment.
1 - Buy yourself a gun
To become a fully-fledged Yank, you'll need to get a weapon. Americans think that having more killing machines magically makes their country safer, and it helps them to walk around saying "I'll put a cap in your ass". Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank, it'll give you a false sense of security in this country with the highest crime rates in the developed world.
2 - Put on at least 25 stone
Skinny? Medium? Chubby? That won't cut it in the good ol' US of A. Because America has the highest obesty levels on the planet, you'll need to get those rolls of flab built up. Eating 18 waffles with Maple syrup for breakfast (and visiting Burger King five times in a day) is all natural when much of the world is suffering massive poverty. Get fat and fit in.
3 - Learn the lingo
We've talked about issues affecting society, but on a personal level you'll need more knowledge (or ignorance as it may be) to fit in. First, forget proper English. Confuse "your" with "you're". Say "must of" instead of "must have". Whenever anything interesting occurs, say "shucks" repeatedly. Instead of clever spontaneity or witty insults, call people "asswipes". It's funny!
4 - Throw away all maps, history books etc.
To really feel a part of American society, you must lose all knowledge of the world. Forget where Poland is. Scrap your knowledge of the lengthy Chinese history. Make cretinous remarks like "India? Is that in Africa?". Because ALL that matters is America, and it doesn't matter how pathetic you look to educated people the world over.
5 - Become totally irrational and nonsensical
Spout on about the Constitution, and then make drastic changes to it. Talk about "freedom of speech" and watch TV programmes about the Ku Klux Klan. Rant on about market freedom, and sit back as companies run riot and destroy the economy with their anti-competitive practices. Essentially, act idiotic at all times.
6 - Sue everyone you ever meet
The USA doesn't produce many decent quality products, so the society is crumbling into a litigation-happy joke. With so many jobs going overseas to talented workers, your only option left is to start legal proceedings. About anything. Someone step on your toe? Get some hotshot downtown lawyer to sue their ass!
7 - Get a "shrink"
Americans have a hard time dealing with their own problems in a mature manner, and prefer to spend hundreds of dollars sitting in front of someone and whinging. However trivial your problems may be, blast them out like a baby!
8 - Watch abysmal TV
Forget educational programmes and incisive documentaries. Your ideal night in is with your gun, six cheeseburgers and a Friends box set. Watch as some over-paid talentless "actor" enters the scene, and whoop and scream hysterically as he delivers some ridiculously poor wisecrack.
So there you have it! Those 8 steps should have you killing innocent people, piling on pounds and acting like a moron in no time. America awaits you, brave hero! Just get out before it collapses in disarray.
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The beginning of the end? (Score:5, Insightful)
Casemodding won't be cool when it's the standard. (Score:3, Insightful)
People who rice up their PCs should be locked in a large cage with people who rice up their cars, and the two groups should be made to fight to the death. Then when the winners emerge victorious from the cage, they'll be cut down by a couple well-positioned Gatling guns.
activity (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Just what I need... (Score:5, Insightful)
What made me realise he's an idiot was seeing his latest one. A window, neon lights galore, an Alien skull on the front with LEDs in the eyes, and the text "Case Mod" across the side. I mean wtf. Even Type-R Honda owners don't write "body kit" on their cars.
Or do they. Maybe I'm out of touch.
But memeory goes inside case... (Score:5, Insightful)
What is the intended use? (Score:4, Insightful)
Seriously, is this aimed at professional people who can use it for system diagnostics? Or is it aimed at the happy 12 year old $random_famous_brand_name fanatics who think that a prefab window, along with prefab water cooling with prefab fanguards and of course the hideously bright blue LEDs?*
*) With proper respect to true case modders, as featured on Slashdot before.
Reverse Trend (Score:3, Insightful)
Blickenlichten (Score:1, Insightful)
- Case which looks like it was designed by a liberal arts drop-out (and windows so we can see the dust bunnies grow): X dollars
- Lights for the inside of the computer (to highlight the dust bunnies): Y dollars
- And now, blicking LEDs inside the computer (well, at least it doesn't bring out the dust bunnies): Z dollars
Being able to remove all doubt you're a first order stupid dork: Priceless.
Yeah, go ahead and mod this as a troll.. Proves the point, doesn't it.
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Like the Sun 3/60... (Score:4, Insightful)
Or was it the other way round.. I can't remeber. Cool none the less - wouldn't mind something similar to stick into a floppy drive blanking plate
Re:MOD PARENT UP (Score:2, Insightful)
Puerile joke [slashdot.org]: Always funny.
Funny and ontopic reference [slashdot.org]: Never funny.
Understand now?
Oh, fun (Score:3, Insightful)
- Case with a window on it, with a Quake applique on it.
- Boards with different, clashing colors.
- Cables with different, clashing colors (preferrably glow-in-the-dark).
- LEDs on the fans.
- LEDs on the memory.
- Purple flourescent tube.
- Fan guards shaped like the biohazard symbol.
You, too can have the tackiest case ever!Seriously, I had a hard time finding a case without a window on it. No, I don't need a window; I know it's all in there.
Re:Actual Link (Score:2, Insightful)
makes it faster (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Blinkenlights! (Score:3, Insightful)
I want to see more stuff like this; if people are going to put windows in their machines, it'll actually be useful now instead of just "ricing out" the machine...
Re:It's Offtopic, You Tool Face (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not off topic, moron. Corsair making memory with blinking lights on it requires a reference to the classic "blinkenlights" warning.
Re:I want XMS with ECC (Score:4, Insightful)