The RAM stick is dying, and the replacement is something most PC builders have never seen


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“When can you expect CAMM2 RAM on the market? … Given the memory market economics, not anytime soon”

“…it's going to be long before the technology becomes available to consumers”

You can get them on the Dell Pro Max line today.

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The wonderful thing about computers is that most everyone can get one and learn to use it and take advantage of the vast resources of information...

Unfortunately if things keep going the way they are, they will become a thing of the wealthy and elite only and that will rapidly cause a great divide in not only lifestyle but intellect.
 

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From a practical view, do they make heat sinks for CAMM2's? DIMM's may be old-school but there's a lot of surface area for heat sinks to work with.
 

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Looks like a great solution for laptop motherboards.
For desktop motherboards, not so much.
Hard to see how you could get the equivalent of 8 or 16 DIMMs on a motherboard using the CAMM2 approach.
 

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I think you're actually going to see more systems with the DRAM soldered to the motherboard, that's the optimum, and it also costs less. Two factors that will be hard for the makers to ignore!
 

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From a practical view, do they make heat sinks for CAMM2's? DIMM's may be old-school but there's a lot of surface area for heat sinks to work with.
Yeah, there are traditional-looking ones, and MSI in particular are doing liquid coolers. Maybe others will do that also. Tweaktown had some pictures of the MSI setup.
 

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