 In the beginning, all RAM looked like this. Green PCBs, black chips, gold contacts on the bottom. Boring. Today, we have Plasma RAM. Yes, my friends, memory modules with frickin' plasma tubes on the top. In three different colors. Let's have a look. Intel's Skull Canyon Nook features a sixth generation Core i7 processor and Thunderbolt 3. You can learn more at the link in the video description. Now, there are actually ways to spend more money on computer memory that offer meaningful benefits. For example, this is ECC registered memory. It has an extra chip in the middle. It does error correction on the fly, meaning that's like a solar frickin', you know, flare or some crap. Flips a bit on your RAM. You are not going to compromise your data integrity, at least in theory, but come on. Consumers don't want that stuff. They want flash, not dash. So, that is where the whole idea of gussying up computer memory to make it look higher performance came from, with guys like OCC and Corsair being among the first to take that regular boring memory I showed you before and put heat spreaders on it. Heat spreaders in theory are a great idea. They spread the heat, so they take the heat from the chips, they help dissipate it, and in the early days you could actually get more overclocking headroom out of better cooled memory, like with BH5s or whatever, but it's less of an issue today. From there, they went, well, let's get more creative about the heat spreaders. That's where we got like stylized heat spreaders, and these ones from G-Skill look pretty darn good. I mean, taking it to the next level was Corsair with LED lighting on their heat spreaders and then, well, little windows so you could see the LED lighting even better, but today's video is not about any of those things. Today's video is about the culmination of flashy memory that does not perform any better than any other RAM. That is to say, unless the other RAM is rated at a slower speed, because that is how you determine how fast memory is by the speed it is rated at, not by how sexy it looks. The Raiden series from Avexir, which we have here in three different flavors, each of which is a different color. Let's check them out. Alright, so for my first trick, I will be installing the Raiden series 2666 megahertz red Tesla ROG certified memory modules here. What makes them ROG certified? I'm not quite sure, and I will never know because I'm actually installing them in a non-ROG motherboard because I am a rebel. Rebel, right here. They're actually surprisingly light. I had kind of expected them to be heavier. Maybe I just don't have a lot of context for how much plasma waves. I think the tube is mostly empty. And now we can see what they look like. Ooh. That's cool. Oh, there goes another one. Will the last one light up? Wait for it. Yeah, there it is. That looks fantastic. Let's get these lights off. That is gorgeous. This is great news because there's a train going by while we're filming. No, but seriously, this is great news because my intended use for these memory modules is actually for a father-daughter build. And I asked Avexir, hey, what color are they? Are they red? Or are they kind of pinky? And they're like, oh yeah, they're red. But they're definitely kind of pinky, which is exactly what I wanted. I'm doing like a white and pink themed build. It's gonna look freaking awesome. So this is like the best news I've had all day. Let's check out the other colors. Taking a gamble in life. Which one is green and which one is blue? There's only one way to find out. Actually, there are two ways to find out. Well, okay, I did not realize that they were clearly color coded on the DIMMs. So there are three ways to find out. By looking at the box, by plugging them in and looking at what color the plasma tubes are, or by just not plugging them in, but looking at them at all. Three ways. Let's get these in there. This I'm expecting to be different. And it is. First, this one lit up, then this one, then this one. First, this one lit up, then this one, then this one. Totally different. I think it has to do with different warm-up times for the plasma tubes. Those look so freaking cool. What I want to know though is if they're like the ones at Science World where they're actually attracted to your touch. And they kind of- Oh, they are! No way! Oh, you're getting a close-up of that, right? That is so cool. Does the whole thing get brighter? Touch the whole thing? How do I- how do I get in there? Uh, nope. Oh, it does! Look at that. Wasn't that fun experiencing a whole new color of plasma tubes like that? I sure think so. And that brings us, finally, to the last color and perhaps the true purpose of this video because I'm sure some of you at home are sitting there going minus this isn't even new. These things have existed for literally years going back to DDR3 at the very least. And the purpose of this video is that a vexier reached out and they were like, hey, yo, do you want to review our RAM? I said, hey, no, not really because we don't review RAM because we think it's kind of pointless. It doesn't affect system performance much and as far as I'm concerned, the looks are as much of a purchasing factor for me as the speed on the side of the modules. But what I did say was, but we do a lot of cool builds and we would love to have some of that sexy looking plasma RAM that we can color match to whatever builds we're doing. And they said, okay, but are you going to make a video about our RAM modules? I said, sure. We'll make a video where we install them in a motherboard and we show all the different colors. And then that way we will have those sticks for the future when we want to do cool color matched builds with sick, dope looking plasma RAM things in them. And that my friends is the purpose of today's episode of holy s***. Plasma memory. Oh, I think the blue color is the best actually. That is a, that is a fairly deep, sexy looking electric blue. I am liking it. Now I was trying to come up with some way to kind of tie Ting into the plasma RAM. Like when you touch the plasma tube, it's attracted to you with the energy and positive energy and calling Ting and talking to a customer service agent instead of going through like a, an automated phone directory. But it didn't work. So we're just going to stick to the script. Ting is the mobile carrier that's focused on customer service and customer satisfaction. First, you pay only for what you use with the average Ting bill coming in at only $23 a month per device. And if you're stuck in a contract and you go over to Ting.com, I believe it's Linus.Ting.com and you try out their savings calculator, it will tell you, you just put in your last few bills and it's like, this is how much you would be paying on Ting. It'll tell you if you'd save money. And if you would, and you want to switch over to Ting, they'll cover 25% of your cancellation fee for your current contract up to $75. And they are now lowering mobile data rates across the board. Data is now just $10 per gig beyond the first gigabyte. Woo! Every single Ting customer will be able to reap the benefits of this change. So head over to Linus.Ting.com and try out their savings calculator with their new lower data rates. And when you sign up at our link, you'll get 25 bucks in service credit or towards a new device. So thanks for watching, guys. 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