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."

Comments

The beginning of the end?

[Blaine Hilton]

Pretty soon it will be odd to not have a modded computer. It seems many companies are adding whiz-bang lights and windows on the computers so that people don't even have to pull out a Dremel any more.

Casemodding won't be cool when it's the standard.

[Anonymous Coward]

The trend will reverse (thank God!), and having a tasteful, plain computer-- one that doesn't look like it would have been driven by a pimp in the 70's if it were a car-- will be in vogue again.

/me looks fondly at the dead-plain, black, monolithic PC case under his desk, adorned with nothing but a small case badge that bears a photo of an F-117.

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

[Anonymous Coward]

What is meant by 'activity?' Size of memory usage, bandwidth usage, amount of power it's drawing?

Re:Just what I need...

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to think people did this stuff because there was some sense of uniqueness, or some artistic effort going into making something you own a bit more 'you', but after seeing a friend of my cousin's effort of copying to the last detail 3 cases from magazines, it makes me wonder.

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...

[MP3Chuck]

What good are LED's unless you've got a clear case mod ... or no case?

What is the intended use?

[Dark Lord Seth]

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

[alakon]

Great-- I will now have a gigantic machine with rows and rows of blinking lights. Why the hell do we need this again?

Like the Sun 3/60...

[Chicane-UK]

Well I think that was one of the versions that had something similar, but for CPU usage. A row of about 5 or 6 LED's used to swish left and right ala Knight Rider at a bit of speed, and as the machine got bogged down with CPU heavy jobs the pattern used to slow right down..

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:I want XMS with ECC

[Wesley Felter]

Yeah, where are the 1GB PC3200 ECC DIMMs? Forget LEDs; let's talk REAL memory.