Beans - Ice cold Corsair RAM in the works

[[GSV]Myocardial]

Originally Posted by mayhem

All so are there going to be extra supports for the ram block because 80% of rigs these will be going into will be on there side and thats going to put some pressure on them ram sots.

(if im correct in thinking)

I doubt there would be much need for support, ram sticks are held in pretty well and have more support than most add in cards due to the latches on motherboards.

[Singh400]

Originally Posted by MadduckUK

had to use up all the R&D budget or they get less next year

Ain't that the truth.

Next year, I would like RAM with flashing lights on please

[Pob255]

Originally Posted by [GSV]Myocardial

I doubt there would be much need for support, ram sticks are held in pretty well and have more support than most add in cards due to the latches on motherboards.

I don't think he mean the ram sticks them selves but the ram sockets.
PCI card expansion sockets are more likely to be solidly attached to the motherboard as they are expected to be able to take heavier loads.
However most memory sockets are not expected to support any more weight than a memory stick with a heat spreader.

My guess is that most memory slots are over engineered enough to withstand the weight but it could be a serious potential problem.

[shaithis]

Pretty useless for i7 machines until RAM voltages drop (any RAM voltages over 1.65v can damage the CPU)....but then I guess there wouldn't be a need for the serious cooling anyway

[[GSV]Myocardial]

Originally Posted by Pob255

I don't think he mean the ram sticks them selves but the ram sockets.
PCI card expansion sockets are more likely to be solidly attached to the motherboard as they are expected to be able to take heavier loads.
However most memory sockets are not expected to support any more weight than a memory stick with a heat spreader.

My guess is that most memory slots are over engineered enough to withstand the weight but it could be a serious potential problem.

If you take a look at a typical memory socket and a typical PCI type slot they will have very similar amount of support, shed loads of soldered connections and all the ones I have here at home have pins of some description through the board.

Taken that the amount of pressure to install a memory stick is a fair amount more than to install a grafics card I'd say that ram slots wouldn't have much problem with holding the sort of weight you could add, and with things such as the Flex ram and the Mips waterblock for ram not posing any real problem I doubt adding a little tec would cause much concern.