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what comes to mind when you hear Low-Profile RAM

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Lupin:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 04, 2011, 04:16:53 PM ---usually its this right?

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No. Those are VLPs.

--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 04, 2011, 04:16:53 PM ---but corsair and others calls these low-profiles...

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The current standard size (~1.2 inches) was called "Low Profile" back when DDR was getting standardized.

--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 04, 2011, 04:16:53 PM ---so what which exactly is low-profile?

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VLP= ~19mm
LP=~1.2 inches <- current standard size

--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 04, 2011, 04:16:53 PM ---and what do you guys call these?

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heatsinked RAM.

kitamesume:
@Lupin

thanks for clarifying them XD

vuzedome:
It's nice that RAM sticks are getting cheaper.

AnimeJanai:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on December 04, 2011, 07:50:32 PM ---so why is corsair calling regular height RAMs low-profile?

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The add-on luxury items stick out a lot that's why.

A few years ago, RAM sticks were fairly plain and cheap.  They were basically some memory chips on a small circuit board.  This simple assemblage was called a "RAM stick" and was competitively priced since they basically looked the same no matter which company sold them.  You could buy 3rd party heat sinks to add to the chips to make them look "better" if you have a window on the side of your PC.   The chip companies were tired of competing with each other on price and started to jump on the bandwagon of adding heat sinks and LED lights onto the RAM sticks in order to charge luxury prices for the same RAM.

What's annoying is that the consumers liked this bandwagon, were fooled, and then jumped on board.  This in essence made all the same RAM higher priced and the non-fancy-packaged RAM became the "rejects".   If only this trend could be reversed, but alas, the RAM sticks are getting fancier names all the time and consumers like that.

KINGston:  Buy our Inori DDR3 now and you'll be singing your praises of its kingly performance.

Corsair:  Arrr, you'll be the King of Corsairs with our Three Piece DDR3 which stretches your dollar without losing any performance or reliability

Kitamasume:  I don't like the Inori DDR3 sticks.  They seemed to drop bits all the time.

kitamesume:
^lol, most of my sticks are kingstons, because they're the cheapest locally distributed here with at least a legit durability(haven't broke one for some years now, other brands like Supertalent or PQI breaks after a year or so... its annoying).

i needed some very low-profile rams but kingston's line is a little unreliable, the same model(literally same model) sometimes has the regular low-profile or the very low-profile, so you'll have to see the item in person to confirm if its a very low-profile or not.

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