In the beginning, all RAM looked like this. Green PCBs, black chips, gold
contacts on the bottom. Boring.
Today, we have plasma RAM. Yes, my
friends, memory modules with freaking plasma tubes on the top in three
different colors. Let's have a look.
Intel's Skull Canyon Nook features a sixth generation Core i7 processor and
Thunderbolt 3. You can learn more at the link in the video
description. Now, there are actually ways to spend more money on computer
memory that offer meaningful benefits. For example, this is ECC registered
memory. It has an extra chip in the middle. It does error correction on the
fly, meaning that's like a solar freaking, you know, flare or some crap
flips a bit on your RAM. You are not going to compromise your data integrity,
at least in theory. But come on,
consumers don't want that stuff. They want flash, not Dash. So that is where
the whole idea of gussying up computer
memory to make it look higher performance came from with guys like OCZ
and Corsair being among the first to take that regular boring memory I showed
you before and put heat spreaders on it.
Heat spreaders in theory are a great idea. They spread the heat. So they take
the heat from the chips. They help dissipate it. And in the early days, you
could actually get more overclocking headroom out of better cooled memory,
like with BH5s or whatever. But it's less of an issue today. From there, they
went, "Well, let's get more creative about the heat spreaders." That's where we got like stylized heat spreaders. And
these ones from Gkill look pretty darn good. I mean, taking it to the next
level was Corsair with LED lighting on their heat spreaders. And then, oh,
little Windows so you could see the LED lighting even better. But today's video
is not about any of those things. Today's video is about the culmination
of flashy memory that does not perform
any better than any other RAM. That is to say, unless the other RAM is rated at
a slower speed, because that is how you determine how fast memory is by the
speed it is rated at, not by how sexy it looks. the Raiden
series from Aexier, which we have here
in three different flavors, each of which is a different color. Let's check
them out. All right, so for my first trick, I will be installing the Raiden
series 2666 MHz red Tesla ROG certified
memory modules here. What makes them ROG certified? I'm not quite sure and I will
never know because I'm actually installing them in a non ROG motherboard
because I am a rebel. Rebel right
here. They're actually surprisingly light. I had kind of expected them to be
heavier. Maybe I just don't have a lot of context for how much plasma
weighs. I think the tube is mostly empty.
And now we can see what they look like.
Ooh, that's cool. Oh, there goes another one. Will
the last one light
up? Um, wait for
it. Yeah, there it is. That looks
fantastic. Let's get these lights off.
That is gorgeous. This is great
news because there's a train going by while we're
filming. No, but seriously, this is great news because my intended use for
these memory modules is actually for a
fatherdaughter build. And I asked a VEX
here, hey, what color are they? Are they really red or are they kind of pinky?
And they're like, "Oh yeah, they're red." But they're definitely kind of
pinky, which is exactly what I wanted. I'm doing like a white and pink themed
build. It's going to look freaking awesome. So, this is like the best news
I've had all day. Let's check out the other colors. Taking a gamble in life.
Which one is green and which one is blue? There's only one way to find out.
Actually, there are two ways to find out. Well, okay. I did not realize that
they were clearly colorcoded on the dims. So, there are three ways to find
out. By looking at the box, by plugging
them in and looking at what color the plasma tubes are, or by just not
plugging them in, but looking at them at all. Three ways. Let's get these in
there. This I'm expecting to be different. And it is. First, this one
lit up, then this one, then this one. Totally different.
I think it has to do with different warm-up times for the plasma tubes.
Those look so freaking cool. What I want to know though is if they're like the
ones at Science World where they're actually attracted to your touch and
they kind of Oh, they are. No way. Oh, you're getting a closeup of
that, right? Oh, that is so
cool. Does the whole thing get brighter if you like touch the whole thing? How
do I How do I get in there?
No. Oh, it does. Look at
that. Wasn't that fun experiencing a whole new color of plasma tubes like
that? I sure think so. And that brings
us finally to the last color and perhaps the true purpose of this video. Because
I'm sure some of you at home are sitting there going, "Minus, this isn't even
new. These things have existed for literally years going back to DDR3 at
the very least. And the purpose of this video is that a Vexier reached out and
they were like, "Hey yo, do you want to review our RAM?" I said, "Hey, no, not
really because we don't review RAM because we think it's kind of pointless.
It doesn't affect system performance much." And as far as I'm concerned, the
looks are as much of a purchasing factor for me as the speed on the side of the
modules. But what I did say was, "But we
do a lot of cool builds and we would love to have some of that sexy looking
plasma RAM that we can color match to whatever builds we're doing." And they
said, "Okay, but are you going to make a video about our RAM modules?" I said,
"Sure, we'll make a video where we install them in a motherboard and we
show all the different colors and then that way we will have those sticks for
the future when we want to do cool color matched builds with sick dope looking
plasma RAM things in them." And that my friends is the purpose of today's
episode of Holy Plasma memory. Oh, I think the blue
color is the best actually. That is a That is a fairly deep, sexy
looking electric blue. I am liking it.
Now, I was trying to come up with some way to kind of tie Ting into the plasma
RAM. Like when you touch the plasma tube, it's attracted to you with the
energy and positive energy and calling Ting and talking to a customer service
agent instead of going through like a an automated phone directory. But, uh, it
didn't work. So, we're just going to stick to the script. TING is the mobile
carrier that's focused on customer service and customer satisfaction first.
You pay only for what you use with the average TING bill coming in at only $23
a month per device. And if you're stuck in a contract and you go over to
ting.com, I believe it's Linus.ing.com, and you try out their
savings calculator, it will tell you. You just put in your last few bills, and
it's like this is how much you would be paying on TING. It'll tell you if you'd
save money and if you would and you want to switch over to TING, they'll cover
25% of your cancellation fee for your current contract up to
$75. And they are now lowering mobile
data rates across the board. Data is now just $10 per gig beyond the first
Gigabyte. Woo! Every single TING customer will be able to reap the
benefits of this change. So, head over to Linus.tain.com and try out their
savings calculator with their new lower data rates. And when you sign up at our
link, you'll get 25 bucks in service credit or towards a new device. So,
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