Adding Pizazz to Your RAM

EliteTEK noted that Extreme Tech is running a review of some fancy new illuminated DDR RAM. This one actually has a 10 char alphanumeric display that normally displays stats on your system, but with their software can display anything you like. It's about time that people can read RSS feeds on their RAM.

Review?

[publius1234]

Here's an actual review:
[H]ard|OCP [hardocp.com],

and here's a better picture:
Legit Reviews [legitreviews.com]

Re:Hungry?

[alhaz]

I know this is going to come as a shock to all of you, but dynamic ram doesn't get hot. It doesn't need a heat sink or heat spreader.

Technically, dynamic ram doesn't even consume electricity, let alone dissipate it as heat. The power consumption of the actual memory cells is essentially zero.

The row and collumn drivers do consume some small amount of power, and in theory, a 'heat spreader' would help even out the temperature across the chip.

Except, remember, this is dynamic ram, which means that every row and collumn is refreshed in unison whether or not it's in use, so every row and collumn is generating the same tiny amount of heat, so the distribution is entirely even.

Someone please point me at test results that show any thermal advantage to sticking some copper or aluminum to my 400mhz ram. Everything I've seen indicates that the temperature of the dimms is within 1 degree of the ambient temperature inside the case with or without 'cooling' devices.