CAMM2 modules

phinix · 11 Jul 2025 at 11:42

Do you think those new CAMM2 modules will be standard any time soon? By soon I mean like in 2-3 years?

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G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world's leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is working closely with the ASUS ROG team to explore the overclock potential of the new DDR5 CAMM2 form factor and have successfully reached the early milestone of...

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Armageus · 11 Jul 2025 at 11:44

I hope not, it's been an utter waste of effort since it was announced.

phinix · 11 Jul 2025 at 11:48

Armageus said:
I hope not, it's been an utter waste of effort since it was announced.

why?

Meddling-Monk · 11 Jul 2025 at 12:01

Maybe in laptops. But not on desktops.

Then there's issues of compatibility to hardware (working together and actual physical connections and needing to upgrade motherboards which are Windows key tied etc), pricing (not seen any pricing for it), what it actually does (which isn't a lot over just basic DDR5 especially in large capacities), availability (I'm not even sure anyone has some on offer). And when factored together, kinda makes it a perplexing item; a solution in search of a problem in short. And there's not really one that's really where it fits overall, other than in small cases of laptops.

Armageus · 11 Jul 2025 at 12:12

phinix said:
why?

Because from day 1 it was a standard that wasn't a standard (it had about 4 different incompatible versions depending whether you want LPDDR or not, and whether you wanted single channel vs dual channel).

On desktops it's a pointless use of space - Motherboards aren't height restricted, so it makes no sense to lay the memory flat

Add in the ewaste aspect, i.e. throwing away the old module for a bigger module (as no real secondary market for the old modules when only a single module is intended to be supported)

And it's one advantage (higher speed through shorter traces) has basically been overcome via CUDIMMs anyway:

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