your RAM, it kind of sucks, especially your laptop's RAM because you have to
choose between having slim but speedy soldered RAM that gives up upgradability
or if you're someone who wants to maybe expand in the future, you have to use
these thick and slow sodium slots that can't run RAM nearly as fast as your
desktop computer could. What are you going to do? Well, we're going to switch
to CAM, baby. Now, what the heck is CAM 2? Well, it's a new form factor for RAM
that solves both of those problems and will allow your laptop to run at RAM
speeds as fast or faster than your desktop's RAM. And it does it in a low
profile form. So, why am I talking about this when I'm in front of a bunch of
desktop computers? Well, you see, Gigabyte is bringing CAM to their
motherboards. Right here is 48 GB of RAM
running at 8,000 mega transfers per second at CL40 speeds. So, why is CAM so
much faster? Well, it's not to do with the memory chips specifically. It almost
all comes down to the form factor. I won't go into a ton of detail on this.
If you want to learn more, go check out our Cam 2 video on LT. But here's a very
surface level overview. Because of how far data has to travel from your CPU to
your RAM, it has to go up and then down and all the way even as far up to here.
It also means that more of these traces have to be very specific lengths to make
sure that the signals are arriving at the exact same time. The smaller the
landing zone, the easier it is to make sure that all of those traces are
connected. Another failure comes in the form of these pins. But listen, man, DDR
has been very similar for a very long time, and these slots are coming on well
over 20 years old at this point. There's probably a better way to do it, and
that's what CAM hopes to do. Now, some of you might be looking at this and being like, hey, didn't they just take
this part and turn it like this? Yes, they did. The space savings that cam
provides typically come in the form of vertical space, which is what makes it
so important for laptops. If you want a thin, powerful laptop, this allows you
to get it. But also something to consider is how much easier it's going to be to provide cooling to your CPU,
especially with low profile coolers. And even tower coolers will benefit from it
because you won't have to have your fans up like an extra 1 or 2 cm to
accommodate your RGB RAM. And the RAM itself will be easier to cool. But I'm
getting ahead of myself. Let's take a look at how this actually connects to
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connects. It might look a little familiar because it's the same mechanism
that our CPUs connect to in a LAN grid array. You have a connector with an
array of pins. You screw down your module onto that and that compresses
them to ensure that they have a really really strong and stable contact. This
does wonders for signal integrity. There's a reason we use it on CPUs and
that signal integrity has so many benefits. We already talked about speed,
but it also has up to 80% more power efficiency. I can't speak about that
specifically for this model, but that is with CAM in general. Now, I know that
you nerds at home are drooling all over this. Sadly, we're not going to be able
to get it yet. Even just getting CAM modules is very difficult. They're not
really for sale, and they're also very expensive. They're in the so new that
it's too expensive to make and therefore too expensive to buy. That kind of
chicken and egg scenario that a lot of new technology gets stuck in for a
little while. And Gigabyte won't be releasing a compatible motherboard anytime soon because they have to wait
for market viability as well. But it's really cool that they have a working
prototype. Oh yeah, did I mention that this system's running right now using
the cam memory and it looks pretty good.
Now let's talk about something that you actually will be able to get pretty soon. This is the Aoris 8670e Master X3D
ICE. And it's not just another motherboard. One, it's ATX, but seems to
pack as many features as you'd find on a much larger motherboard, including this
curiously placed HDMI port on the front. The idea is that if you have like a
third party incase display, you don't have to route an HDMI cable out through
the back of your PC and into the back of your motherboard. You can put it right
here for a much cleaner and easier run. Also, if you have a test bench, you
might find this a little bit easier to access than the back of the board. And that's just the start. Tons and tons of
IO all over the board. Super densely packed in there. You may not care, but I
care. It's got two of these easy release PCIe slot locks. But the coolest part is
their OC chip with turbo mode chip that's included with this. What does it
do? It allows the motherboard to overclock your chip for you. But how
does it work? Well, it uses AI to analyze your CPU's performance and
adjusts the clock speeds and voltages to bring out apparently up to 15% more
performance. They say in their testing it's 10 to 15% more. That is an absolute
gamecher. It's hard to say if that's going to be true across the board or if
you're going to be somebody who needs to have like a golden CPU or if that's only
in specific games. They said that they tested it in Cyberpunk as well as a
couple of other games, but they said a couple of other games. If you're a
gaming enthusiast who wants absolutely everything, including installed Wi-Fi
drivers, they're already on there, but we won't know until it releases in September. They haven't given a price
point or anything. I'm assuming because it's part of their master lineup, it will be in that master price point
range, which is um not cheap, and neither am I. Which is why I'm giving
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