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what comes to mind when you hear Low-Profile RAM

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kitamesume:
usually its this right?
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but corsair and others calls these low-profiles...
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so what which exactly is low-profile?

and what do you guys call these?
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rostheferret:
RAM that fits within certain physical dimensions. I think it's all to do with fitting into laptops, cos obviously if you slap big heatsinks on it sticking that in a notebook might be a bit tricky.

Pentium100:
Laptop RAM is different. Low profile RAM may be useful for servers (though normal size RAM fits in my 1U server, but the one with a huge heatsink wouldn't, then again, the server has good airflow, so the heatsink is not needed).

Laptop RAM is called SO-DIMM (or SO-DDR1/2/3) and is about 67 x 32 mm.

rostheferret:
*shrugs*

I've always used desktops, so I have limited experience with laptops and the like.

kitamesume:
so why is corsair calling regular height RAMs low-profile?

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