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Memory Activity LEDs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pimping-out-your-puter dept.

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."

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  1. The beginning of the end? by Blaine+Hilton · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  2. activity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  3. Re:Just what I need... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  4. But memeory goes inside case... by MP3Chuck · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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