Ram-ping up the difficulty

[HEXUS]

HEXUS.community members VictorE, duc and TAKTAK all had a hand in solving the last HEXUS.pipeline, but here's a new one to confound you. Clue: A type of smooth and initially tea take you to the show, not 40 yet! The answer is there...

Watch the show.

[staffsMike]

Looks like this RAM and cooler to me, way too tired to even think what clue that means yet

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=6634&page=3

A few seconds in is a picture of the underneath of the cooler

http://img.hexus.net/v2/memory/corsa...er_iso-big.jpg ...I thiiiink.

Would the first part of the clue be, Smooth Sailing? ..corsair.. ship etc..

[Nick]

This is one where the clue is independent of the video. And I'm not saying nowt more for a few hours as I've a load to be getting on with.

[Kotoa]

Well it's definately a twin set of dominator RAM, with a cooler, I guess the clue will point to which set is the one in the video.

[Nick]

No more guesses?

Here's a helper... think of different words for smooth...

[stevie lee]

i'm going to try the 'overly complicated' approach again.. it might make sense,might not, but it does form an answer if you think about it..

privateers - pirates - they use corsair ships..

initially Tea - word begins with T - TwinX

take you to the show - google it and this pops up http://www.web.net/~choir/ucc84_199905.htm - salute to the new millenium - year 2000 - ram speed in mhz

not 40 yet - not 4096 mb ram - 2048 mb instead


bung it all together you get the 2GB(2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS3 Dominator DDR3 PC3-16000(2000)



but hang on a second, i missed out 'smooth' and where did i get dominator from. well have a read of this.. http://www.epinions.com/review/Domin...t_209754230404

Dominator Tires...A smooth responsive ride

as i said - overly complicated, but it fits so perfectly it has to be right, doesn't it?

my head hurts with all this thinking..

[staffsMike]

But that uses the word smooth and we were told to look for different words for smooth...

[Nick]

ok... "a type of smooth" = even

Now let's see how you get on...

But stevie gets 11/10 for effort and imagination

[VictorE]

I think stevie should step away from the crack pipe.. j/k WoW thats way out there stevie but i like it! I kinda went the same route but i didn't have the balls to write it your explanation wins hands down without a doubt.

[duc]

Video shows Corsair Airflow and Dominator DDR3 (square notches as oppose to round ones on DDR2) memory.

Clues...OK, this is more guess work than anything else.

Privateers = Corsair (wiki)

"A type of smooth and initially tea take you to the show, not 40 yet!"

"A type of Smooth" (EVEN) and "Initially tea" (T) = EVENT

"not 40 yet!" = So presume is 39

thus, EVENT 39 takes you to the show.

Putting this into hexus url generator gives you: http://www.hexus.net/content/event.php?event=39.

The only show which is Privateer related is this: http://www.hexus.tv/show/2007/07/COM...orsair_s_DDR3/. Rich, from Corsair, talks to Nick during COMPUTEX 2007 about the latest DDR3 memory, specifically the Dominator 1600MHz.

[Nick]

Hehe, duc does it again though stevie gets a cookie for creativity and effort.

Right, new vid on the way in a few mins.

[duc]

ok... "a type of smooth" = even

Was on completely different line of thought until the extra clue.

[stevie lee]

I think stevie should step away from the crack pipe.. j/k WoW thats way out there stevie but i like it! I kinda went the same route but i didn't have the balls to write it your explanation wins hands down without a doubt.

it was the right answer in the end though.. just the wrong way of getting there..

dread to think what i would be like if i tried crack, i'm mad enough as it is.

Putting this into hexus url generator gives you:

url generator? tell me more..


well done again duc..