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Branding is ridiculous.
The best part is that all of these RAM brands are nearly-identical reference PCB designs built around ICs from one of about three companies. About the only difference is whether there's a heatsink, and what color they anodized it if so.
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Freya Holmér
@FreyaHolmer
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me: okay, looks like my ram is broken. I guess I need to buy new ones
*opens website*
ram: HYPERX FURY
me:
ram: VENGEANCE
me: okay I just-
ram: BALLISTIX SPORT
me: what does that even-
ram: PREDATOR. DOMINATOR. SNIPER X
me:
me: what is wrong with gamer-
ram [screaming]: RIPJAWS
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whitequark
@whitequark
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this disease runs deep and not just in consumer hardware. broadcom has carrier-grade switches called Trident, Tomahawk and Maverick, and, ugh
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Andrew Zonenberg
@azonenberg
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14. sij |
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This is why I like digikey's search, I wish more stuff was like that.
I'm not going to decide whether to buy an LMK04806 or an XC7A35T based on the part number or brand name. It's a question of what I need and what the component does.
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Rich Felker
@RichFelker
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14. sij |
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WTF, RAM has heatsinks now??
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whitequark
@whitequark
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14. sij |
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yeah. not only it heats up a lot, but DDR4 also has to be retrained each time the temperature changes by more than 20°C or so, which causes a large amount of issues, especially on embedded systems
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whitequark
@whitequark
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14. sij |
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don't forget "whether they're storing RGB LED configuration in SPD EEPROM without any protection from accidental overwrites"
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Andrew Zonenberg
@azonenberg
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14. sij |
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I wish you were joking about that, but I know you're not...
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Adam McCombs
@nanographs
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14. sij |
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FEIs line of Foucused Ion Beam Columns is Magnum, Phoenix, Tomahawk, and Sidewinder. The first gen was pre-lens and that's a good technical description of the technology, then marketing got involved for everything else.
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James Wu
@analogist_net
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14. sij |
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SKHynix, Elpida, Micron, and Samsung
Any others?
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Stefano D
@RolandCezanne
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14. sij |
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Welp. It's not just the IC but also the chips, the controller. There are many combinations and for an enthusiast it's even harder to pick a decent RAM than what the OP wrote 🙄
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Mike Alexander
@ma261065
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14. sij |
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Branding IS ridiculous - colourswheelchair.com/spazz/
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Jeff Hutchins
@zumpiez
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And whether or not that heat sink has BADASS SHARP MEAN LOOKIN' FINS
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