Forget DDR4..Meet The Memory Cube

wazza300 · 27 Jun 2014 at 00:01

likely to be soldered into/onto the motherboard itself,if they are reliable then I don't mind

EDIT: I bet ram manufacturers are quaking in there boots (that's if this tech actually goes mainstream)

shankly1985 · 27 Jun 2014 at 01:51

My problem with this like wazza pointed out, if it fails you be changing the board, for this reason I can't see this taking off tbh

Sin_Chase · 27 Jun 2014 at 09:43

I don't see what prevents boards from having a slotable interface for this. It cannot have a more complicated pin arrangement than a CPU that for some reason REQUIRES direct, fixed solder attachment.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 27 Jun 2014 at 09:54

With a bit of luck, somebody at the company will realise that a socketed form-factor is a good idea.
I'm sure we'll see some options by the time they come along...

DoneADougalOnSofa · 27 Jun 2014 at 09:58

I can see smaller capacities being used as onboard cache to begin with. I doubt they'll be cheap, so couple of gig fast cache, allied to standard RAM- at least til the prices come down a bit.

Imdur · 29 Jun 2014 at 15:59

Hopefully, in a few years, this will catch on. Although, soldered on? Surely, they could come up with a better delivery option??

porushinobu · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:35

the memory will be required to be soldered on the motherboard near the CPU

bit of a shame that point, difficult to upgrade/ RMA as others have said. maybe have the traditional slots also available?

snips86x · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:39

If its cheaper than current tech, I'd be willing to swap over and take the plunge!!

porushinobu · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:44

snips86x said:
If its cheaper than current tech, I'd be willing to swap over and take the plunge!!

fair point that, but with new tech, it will be expensive as always

~Mike~ · 30 Jun 2014 at 15:45

Imdur said:
Hopefully, in a few years, this will catch on. Although, soldered on? Surely, they could come up with a better delivery option??

Hopefully with further development they will make it so that it fits in a socket.

FrankJH · 6 Jul 2014 at 17:55

snips86x said:
I'd like to see CPU socket style setup going on!!

Im sure that will be GEn II or III - it would be an obvious evolution I would have thought

Sounds good though

Silent_Scone · 6 Jul 2014 at 21:13

Interesting

adolf hamster · 7 Jul 2014 at 02:38

point of note, this tech got any future maybe in gpu's? we dont mind them with soldered ram and the form is perfect.

the cache+ddr3/4 is a good idea, like the ram equivalent of an ssd/hdd combo

Ulti-Resis · 8 Jul 2014 at 23:51

If done right, socketed, on GPU's, used as cache etc or even as mentioned earlier in the thread eventually integrated into the CPU and affordable could be an amazing advance.

Doesn't have the eye catching look current RAM sticks have though. They would have to do something with the aesthetics or put some kind of nice cover over them.

ttaskmaster · 9 Jul 2014 at 13:13

Ulti-Resis said:
Doesn't have the eye catching look current RAM sticks have though. They would have to do something with the aesthetics or put some kind of nice cover over them.

Most people would likely be happy with a sticker, which you could possibly do yourself.
The top-end enthusiasts and the rich will probably put a water-cooling block on it.
The likes of me will want Tactical Tracer style RGB LED patterns all over it!!

Phil2008 · 9 Jul 2014 at 13:37

shankly1985 said:
My problem with this like wazza pointed out, if it fails you be changing the board, for this reason I can't see this taking off tbh

Well atm it requires them to be soldered to the board, but surely it would be very easy to design them so they slotted in a socket, like cpu's do?

Ulti-Resis · 9 Jul 2014 at 21:23

ttaskmaster said:
Most people would likely be happy with a sticker, which you could possibly do yourself.
The top-end enthusiasts and the rich will probably put a water-cooling block on it.
The likes of me will want Tactical Tracer style RGB LED patterns all over it!!

Yes it's got to look good or what's the point

GiraffePencils · 10 Jul 2014 at 14:17

Well, isn't the market moving to having CPUs soldered to the board?
So combined with this it's a lot to fail on one board

Ulti-Resis · 10 Jul 2014 at 15:04

I hope not, having to RMA a whole board with CPU and Ram can't be good.

Customising and upgrading components would be impossible, it would simply be a case of having to replace everything. Thoughts of Apple come to mind.

esoteric · 11 Jul 2014 at 21:41

If it requires to be soldered and not socket I really doubt it will take off.