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  • JeffFlanagan - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    LED-lit components are for teenagers, not most people who are building high-performance PCs.
  • JoeyJoJo123 - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    MOOOOOOOOOM! I need moar gamin' RAM for my gamin' peecee!!!!!!
  • abrowne1993 - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    "Hey look, guys, I posted it again! It's still funny, right?"
  • nandnandnand - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    I know I like to stare at my RAM all day long. Jesus Christ.

    Corsair Unveils Some DDR4 RAM Sticks With 4333 MT/s Data-Rate. Ah, that's better.
  • close - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    Bot really.

    Title: Corsair unveils DDR4 4333 MT/s
    Reality: ...will be available with data-rates up to 3466 MT/s, but in the near future the company promises to add DRAM sticks with speeds up to 4333 MT/s.
    Suggested title: Corsair unveils DDR4 3466 MT/s, will unveil 4333MT/s models in the near future

    Title: Reader still thinks Anandtech has the edge in tech reporting
    Reality: Anadtech tech reporting looks more and more like PR statements from manufacturers with no attempt to make them feel less misleading and clickbait-y
  • Ahnilated - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    Exactly, this title is WAY wrong and very misleading. What a waste of a click to read about it.
  • fanofanand - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    you hit the nail on the head.
  • Xinn3r - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    So what website in your opinion has the edge in tech reporting these days?
  • close - Friday, July 22, 2016 - link

    None. Zero. They all "lack the edge". They have (and I will quote from a dictionary the following as being antonyms for "edge"): the bottom, center, inside, interior, middle, nadir, block, disadvantage, surface. Not the edge.

    Tech reporting is mostly reduced to pushing out PR statements without even fact checking them first. And sorry to say but Anton is making a career out of "printing" this kind of releases. The title is of his own choosing so publishing this article with that misleading title is 100% the respectability of AnandTech.
    Also there have been plenty of cases where the information was factually wrong because they chose NOT to publish the small print the manufacturer was providing on their site, thus giving out false info. Imagine talking about a screen and saying "a 5" screen" but forgetting to mention "just 2" are viewable area".

    The real reson I keep coming back is this dude: Johan De Gelas. I'm sure the reviews (GPUs, phones, etc.) require a lot of work but they bring less value since the market is flooded with reviews that provide 80% of the results with maybe 20% of the effort. And the "news" is definitely just here to generate traffic for AT but 0 value for the reader since you can read the same more or less misleading info on every tech site out there.
  • Sushisamurai - Friday, July 1, 2016 - link

    Yeah really... please change the title as that was very misleading.
  • Arnulf - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    Precisely!

    I like to think that Anandtech caters more to computer enthusiasts and professionals than to kids looking for next Christmas tree ornament to stick into their "gaming rig". Seriously? Rig?
  • dgingeri - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    In the past, each DDR generation made it up to twice the speed of the previous generation fairly quickly. My current DDR3 memory is at 2400 with 10/12/12/31 timings. When they bring out DDR4-4800 with 20/24/24/62 timings, then I'll be impressed.
  • BrokenCrayons - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    This would be great for my windowless gaming computer that's sitting in the basement next to the cat's litter box! While I'm upstairs abusing Steam's in-home streaming to play an SNES emulator on my Linux box because I'm too lazy to compile it for a 64-bit OS, my cat might get enough light through the fan intakes on the front to actually see where her behind is as so she doesn't pee over the side.
  • Stochastic - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Not to be overly cynical, but it's kind of sad that the biggest "innovation" in many commoditized PC components (keyboards, RAM, mice, even cases to some extent) has been gaudy LEDs this year. The PC market isn't just shrinking because of smartphones, it's shrinking because most people have no compelling reason to shell out on new computers. The only areas that have seen significant advances recently are GPUs, monitors, and SSDs in my humble opinion (although to be fair, RAM modules have also gotten a lot cheaper).
  • AnotherGuy - Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - link

    Ur right... I just bought 16gb of ddr4 3000 for $65, not bad at all, I remember I used to buy 1GB of DDR 3200 for $40 not too long ago... maybe 12 years ago :P
  • Arnulf - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    You don't really want to know how much people have been paying for 64 KB / 1 MB / 16 MB during the 70s, 80s and 90s (90s price inflation when Sumitomo went up in flames ...). And yes, those are kilo- and megabytes ;-)

    RAM is silly cheap compared to CPUs these days but used to be approximately 1:1 pricewise for a balanced build back then.
  • Galvin - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    I used to think movies that had flashing lights for everything computer were silly. But tha'ts the direction we're already been going in. I hate it though.
  • stephenbrooks - Thursday, June 30, 2016 - link

    I'd rather they had a matrix of LEDs that were connected to some of the bit values so I could see my RAM filling up.

    Occasionally having a lot of lights in your case is useful if you've parked it in a dark corner under a table and want to check on something (is that fan spinning/is it full of dust?/hot-plug an SSD) without getting a torch out.

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