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Memory Activity LEDs
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."
...is that what they mean by 'flash memory'..?
This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment.
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.
With enough banks of this RAM will the resolution be enough to play Pong?
Omnis amans amens
Cool! More blinkenlights! :-) Can we have one on the PCI bus too? What about the IDE bus? The USB cable. We alredy have one for the ethernet. Soon we'll be able to have our very own home discos.
Stick Men
I might as well just build my computer case from a 1997 Honda Civic hatchback with an 8-inch exhaust, 2-foot wing spoiler, blue turn signals and green neons under the car.
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.
512 Mbyte XMS ProSeries modules
I want a 512 Mbyte LIM ProSeries module goddamit!
ooh, all the pretty lights....
What in the hell is a "heatspreader"?
An Eskimo hooker.
Trolling is a art,
I for one welcome our new blinking memory overlords!
- It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. Stupid Monkey!!
I dont know but I do know that if my PC looked like those machines I'd be irresistable to women!
Pretty soon people will be modding their computers to _remove_ all the silly lights and windows.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
EMS/XMS memory thats one nightmare I did n't want to be reminded off.. expanded and extended memory I'd almost forgotten.
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!
What next? An LED that displays hard drive activity?
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!
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
We've been trying to figure out for months how to make our data center more impressive when we take PHB's there on tours. This sounds like just the ticket!
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!
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
Yeah, damn, sucks for you, everyone else is going to be sponging up loads of useful info from these lights. Oh well, maybe some enterprising fellow will discover this untapped market for color-blind case modders and debut a line of RAM sticks with little speakers on them.
i'm waiting till my 512MB chip has 536,870,912 lights on it...not gonna buy it any sooner...
That's because your stories involved the UK. Nobody outside the UK cares what goes on in the UK. LEDs in memory chips and silly putty are much more interesting than the UK.
Whaddya mean, "pretty soon"? People are already removing Windows in droves!
The LEDs aren't bright enough!
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.
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You're saying that the Pope's scrotum comes equipped with blinkenlights?
Is it fascism yet?
Hehe, the only thing on MY case is a compiler construction textbook, the remote control for my industrial fan, and a pizza sauce encrusted plate. And the only thing PERMENANTLY on my case...is the pizza plate, sadly. I shoudln't have let the cheese set ;)
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
A little tweaking and we can have case mods that are just like the WOPR from WarGames!
yay.
....move along....nothing to see here....
So this is what those things in Mr. Data's head are?
STOP the Madness!
1024x768 display with shared memory. Hah!
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!
And don't forget the additional light pollution through the transparent case - pity the astronomers.
AT&ROFLMAO