RAM with freaking plasma tubes?! - HOLY $H!T Ep. 11
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,650 words · ~8 min read
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In the beginning, all RAM looked like this. Green PCBs, black chips, gold
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contacts on the bottom. Boring.
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Today, we have plasma RAM. Yes, my
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friends, memory modules with freaking plasma tubes on the top in three
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different colors. Let's have a look.
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Intel's Skull Canyon Nook features a sixth generation Core i7 processor and
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Thunderbolt 3. You can learn more at the link in the video
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description. Now, there are actually ways to spend more money on computer
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memory that offer meaningful benefits. For example, this is ECC registered
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memory. It has an extra chip in the middle. It does error correction on the
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fly, meaning that's like a solar freaking, you know, flare or some crap
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flips a bit on your RAM. You are not going to compromise your data integrity,
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at least in theory. But come on,
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consumers don't want that stuff. They want flash, not Dash. So that is where
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the whole idea of gussying up computer
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memory to make it look higher performance came from with guys like OCZ
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and Corsair being among the first to take that regular boring memory I showed
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you before and put heat spreaders on it.
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Heat spreaders in theory are a great idea. They spread the heat. So they take
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the heat from the chips. They help dissipate it. And in the early days, you
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could actually get more overclocking headroom out of better cooled memory,
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like with BH5s or whatever. But it's less of an issue today. From there, they
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went, "Well, let's get more creative about the heat spreaders." That's where we got like stylized heat spreaders. And
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these ones from Gkill look pretty darn good. I mean, taking it to the next
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level was Corsair with LED lighting on their heat spreaders. And then, oh,
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little Windows so you could see the LED lighting even better. But today's video
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is not about any of those things. Today's video is about the culmination
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of flashy memory that does not perform
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any better than any other RAM. That is to say, unless the other RAM is rated at
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a slower speed, because that is how you determine how fast memory is by the
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speed it is rated at, not by how sexy it looks. the Raiden
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series from Aexier, which we have here
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in three different flavors, each of which is a different color. Let's check
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them out. All right, so for my first trick, I will be installing the Raiden
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series 2666 MHz red Tesla ROG certified
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memory modules here. What makes them ROG certified? I'm not quite sure and I will
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never know because I'm actually installing them in a non ROG motherboard
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because I am a rebel. Rebel right
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here. They're actually surprisingly light. I had kind of expected them to be
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heavier. Maybe I just don't have a lot of context for how much plasma
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weighs. I think the tube is mostly empty.
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And now we can see what they look like.
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Ooh, that's cool. Oh, there goes another one. Will
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the last one light
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up? Um, wait for
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it. Yeah, there it is. That looks
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fantastic. Let's get these lights off.
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That is gorgeous. This is great
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news because there's a train going by while we're
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filming. No, but seriously, this is great news because my intended use for
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these memory modules is actually for a
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fatherdaughter build. And I asked a VEX
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here, hey, what color are they? Are they really red or are they kind of pinky?
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And they're like, "Oh yeah, they're red." But they're definitely kind of
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pinky, which is exactly what I wanted. I'm doing like a white and pink themed
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build. It's going to look freaking awesome. So, this is like the best news
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I've had all day. Let's check out the other colors. Taking a gamble in life.
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Which one is green and which one is blue? There's only one way to find out.
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Actually, there are two ways to find out. Well, okay. I did not realize that
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they were clearly colorcoded on the dims. So, there are three ways to find
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out. By looking at the box, by plugging
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them in and looking at what color the plasma tubes are, or by just not
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plugging them in, but looking at them at all. Three ways. Let's get these in
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there. This I'm expecting to be different. And it is. First, this one
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lit up, then this one, then this one. Totally different.
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I think it has to do with different warm-up times for the plasma tubes.
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Those look so freaking cool. What I want to know though is if they're like the
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ones at Science World where they're actually attracted to your touch and
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they kind of Oh, they are. No way. Oh, you're getting a closeup of
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that, right? Oh, that is so
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cool. Does the whole thing get brighter if you like touch the whole thing? How
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do I How do I get in there?
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No. Oh, it does. Look at
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that. Wasn't that fun experiencing a whole new color of plasma tubes like
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that? I sure think so. And that brings
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us finally to the last color and perhaps the true purpose of this video. Because
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I'm sure some of you at home are sitting there going, "Minus, this isn't even
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new. These things have existed for literally years going back to DDR3 at
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the very least. And the purpose of this video is that a Vexier reached out and
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they were like, "Hey yo, do you want to review our RAM?" I said, "Hey, no, not
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really because we don't review RAM because we think it's kind of pointless.
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It doesn't affect system performance much." And as far as I'm concerned, the
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looks are as much of a purchasing factor for me as the speed on the side of the
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modules. But what I did say was, "But we
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do a lot of cool builds and we would love to have some of that sexy looking
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plasma RAM that we can color match to whatever builds we're doing." And they
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said, "Okay, but are you going to make a video about our RAM modules?" I said,
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"Sure, we'll make a video where we install them in a motherboard and we
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show all the different colors and then that way we will have those sticks for
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the future when we want to do cool color matched builds with sick dope looking
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plasma RAM things in them." And that my friends is the purpose of today's
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episode of Holy Plasma memory. Oh, I think the blue
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color is the best actually. That is a That is a fairly deep, sexy
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looking electric blue. I am liking it.
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Now, I was trying to come up with some way to kind of tie Ting into the plasma
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RAM. Like when you touch the plasma tube, it's attracted to you with the
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energy and positive energy and calling Ting and talking to a customer service
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agent instead of going through like a an automated phone directory. But, uh, it
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didn't work. So, we're just going to stick to the script. TING is the mobile
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carrier that's focused on customer service and customer satisfaction first.
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You pay only for what you use with the average TING bill coming in at only $23
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a month per device. And if you're stuck in a contract and you go over to
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ting.com, I believe it's Linus.ing.com, and you try out their
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savings calculator, it will tell you. You just put in your last few bills, and
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it's like this is how much you would be paying on TING. It'll tell you if you'd
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save money and if you would and you want to switch over to TING, they'll cover
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25% of your cancellation fee for your current contract up to
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$75. And they are now lowering mobile
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data rates across the board. Data is now just $10 per gig beyond the first
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Gigabyte. Woo! Every single TING customer will be able to reap the
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benefits of this change. So, head over to Linus.tain.com and try out their
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savings calculator with their new lower data rates. And when you sign up at our
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link, you'll get 25 bucks in service credit or towards a new device. So,
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thanks for watching, guys. If you dislike this video, hit that dislike
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button, get subscribed, maybe even consider checking out where to buy these
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in the video description. Or you can also check out where to buy cool merch
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like this t-shirt that I'm wearing at our merch store over on Teespring as
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well as a link to our community forum where you can go and talk tech including
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like why is Lionus acting like plasma memory is new. I'm not acting like it's
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new. I'm acting like it's exciting which it is. But you can discuss that with
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other people and you know you can all be in agreement that I am stupid and you
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know wrong or whatever else the case may be. I think there are other calls that I
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do. subscribe and uh right, don't forget to check out our other videos over on
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Channel Super Fun right about over there. See you next
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time. Yes. Oh, that's plastic.