DDR5... with LEGOs?

[WhitetailAni]

Summary

Galax has showcased its new "Gamer RGB DDR5 Modules" that feature an ARGB strip with LEGO compatibility on top. The modules come in 2x8, 2x16, and 2x32GB kits in both red and blue flavors, albeit at DDR5-4800 base speeds. Additionally, this information came from Expreview and Galax's website has no mention of these modules at all.

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DIMM designs by the various DRAM module manufacturers are always something of a personal taste thing and then there's the polarising issue of RGB or not. Well, it looks like Galax has worked on something special for its upcoming Gamer RGB DDR5 modules that is likely to cause mixed reactions, but we have a feeling they'll potentially be popular with younger gamers.

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However, we must note that this information is coming only from Expreview, and there is no mention of the new DDR5 modules on Galax's website. We also have not been able to independently verify the authenticity of these Gamer RGB DDR5 module renders. But this isn’t an unprecedented move from Galax. In 2020, the peripheral maker unleashed the GeForce RTX 3090 Gamer graphics card with two (2x6) stud sections to add your own LEGO bricks.

My thoughts

I'm excited to see if Sariel's LEGO Workshop Bricks and Pets will do anything with these. They have the potential to allow really cool creations inside your PC, and perhaps we could see DDR4 variants as well.

 

Sources

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/galax-shows-off-its-gamer-rgb-ddr5-modules.287897/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/galax-lego-ddr5-ram

[Action_Johnson]

That's pretty fun

[Kisai]

30 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Summary

Galax has showcased its new "Gamer RGB DDR5 Modules" that feature an ARGB strip with LEGO compatibility on top. The modules come in 2x8, 2x16, and 2x32GB kits in both red and blue flavors, albeit at DDR5-4800 base speeds. Additionally, this information came from Expreview and Galax's website has no mention of these modules at all.

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My thoughts

I'm excited to see if Sariel's LEGO Workshop Bricks and Pets will do anything with these. They have the potential to allow really cool creations inside your PC, and perhaps we could see DDR4 variants as well.

 

Sources

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/galax-shows-off-its-gamer-rgb-ddr5-modules.287897/

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/galax-lego-ddr5-ram

Lego would likely melt if that was used that way. But if they are selling "LEGO-like" RGB bricks that go on the RAM, it's probably not made of ABS plastic like LEGO. ABS melts at 80 degrees C, and you're sticking that near a GPU and CPU that run at 90 degrees.

 

[StDragon]

 That pattern is Tetris. Sorry, it can't be unseen.

[AlwaysFSX]

39 minutes ago, Kisai said:

and you're sticking that near a GPU and CPU that run at 90 degrees.

I dunno about your system but nothing with the air or hardware around my cpu and gpu is running anywhere near that temp.

[Moonzy]

"PC is just adult Lego"

[RejZoR]

42 minutes ago, Kisai said:

Lego would likely melt if that was used that way. But if they are selling "LEGO-like" RGB bricks that go on the RAM, it's probably not made of ABS plastic like LEGO. ABS melts at 80 degrees C, and you're sticking that near a GPU and CPU that run at 90 degrees.

 

Nothing is actually 90°C there. CPU core read by thermal diode inside may have 90°C. Cooler on the outside might have 50°C on the fins surface. Also RAM doesn't heat that much unless you really overvolt and overclock it.

[adarw]

would this be sick? 

 

yes

 

would it be impractical 

 

probably

 

would i love this?

 

yes

 

would i buy it if it was more expensive?

 

no

 

[WolframaticAlpha]

Remonds me of this:

Spoiler

 

Something much more cool than this would be expandable memory on a workstation gpu. It might be impractical and expensive, but would be pretty awesome if someone does that. I regularly hit 13+ gigs vram usage on colab (pro), even after optimizations

[Quackers101]

overheats and blows up. lego everywhere, it was like a war... could not take a step further, before I took a lego to the foot.

[MageTank]

2 hours ago, Kisai said:

Lego would likely melt if that was used that way. But if they are selling "LEGO-like" RGB bricks that go on the RAM, it's probably not made of ABS plastic like LEGO. ABS melts at 80 degrees C, and you're sticking that near a GPU and CPU that run at 90 degrees.

 

That's not how thermal dissipation works. A GPU running at 90C wouldn't cause the air directly around it to be at 90C. Growing up before GPU anti-sag brackets were a thing, we used to glue lego's to the bottom of our chassis to support our GPU's. It's a trend that still exists to this day as well:

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This was a very common trend back on the older OCN forums around 2007 (when I originally joined) and likely predated even that.

 

Also, on the subject of thermal dissipation on nearby components, I currently have a surface-mounted thermal probe on a side panel with a Radeon GPU exhausting hot air directly from its sides and the surface temperature of the side panel is 108F or 42C after 60 minutes of Furmark (4k, max AA) with a 6700 XT reference card. Lego's will survive ambient chassis temps, assuming there is any airflow whatsoever, lol.

[Fasterthannothing]

Taking the saying a computer is just expensive adult Legos to a whole new level

[Freakwise]

I know this is a rumour but, does anyone knows if the entire heat spreader is abs plastic or it's just the top lego stud part?

[WhitetailAni]

20 minutes ago, Freakwise said:

I know this is a rumour but, does anyone knows if the entire heat spreader is abs plastic or it's just the top lego stud part?

I’d think just the top stud part, as a plastic heatspreader wouldn’t be a very good heatspreader.

[da na]

We're returning to the 2006 "What ridiculous crap can we put in the case?"!

I really hope you can buy just the heatsinks on Wish because screw it, they're goin on my DDR2 in my testbench. 

[Doobeedoo]

Nah, prefer G.skill ones.

[soldier_ph]

This will bring a whole new meaning to "bricking your system".

[Franck]

On 10/15/2021 at 12:48 PM, Kisai said:

Lego would likely melt if that was used that way. But if they are selling "LEGO-like" RGB bricks that go on the RAM, it's probably not made of ABS plastic like LEGO. ABS melts at 80 degrees C, and you're sticking that near a GPU and CPU that run at 90 degrees.

 

Lego ABS melt between 100°C-110°C on heated plate, 3D printing ABS melt at around ~230°C.