CAMM2 for desktop PCs: MSI explains the benefits of the new RAM standard for gaming towers

[Redaktion]

While LPCAMM2 is being touted as the future of laptop RAM, CAMM2 is also set to replace the classic DIMM bars on the desktop. MSI shows what this could look like and what advantages and disadvantages CAMM2 offers compared to previous RAM modules.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/CAMM2-for-desktop-PCs-MSI-explains-the-benefits-of-the-new-RAM-standard-for-gaming-towers.876579.0.html

[LANGUAGE K-BARRIER]

"As only one module is required, the RAM itself should also be cheaper"

Price aside, for DIMM & soDIMM only one module is required, so what makes it different from CAMM2 & LPCAMM2?!

[TheRed]

"As only one module is required, the RAM itself should also be cheaper"

Price aside, for DIMM & soDIMM only one module is required, so what makes it different from CAMM2 & LPCAMM2?!

Simple, dual channel on camm with only one module. DIMM is single channel in 1 module.

[Worgarthe]

DIMM is single channel in 1 module.

Unless DDR5 where each module runs in dual channel.

[game-tea]

DIMM is single channel in 1 module.

Unless DDR5 where each module runs in dual channel.

Yes, but then it's still only 2x32=64 bits of bandwidth. Camm2 has 2 interfaces on one module so it can do the full 128 bit ddr5 interface (as if it is two dimm's)

[NikoB-+-]

What made me laugh the most was the childish "minus" - the lack of RGB backlighting.

How old is the author of this stupid opus?

I have already written 100 times that the main reason is that greedy capitalists deliberately change the form factor with one single goal - to exclude the possibility of a cheap upgrade, since there are plenty of SO-DIMM modules and even at today's inflated prices, an independent upgrade is 3-10 times cheaper than the rudeness with prices from greedy manufacturers when installing increased (read: normal, working) DRAM volumes from the factory.

Because CAM modules do NOT speed up RAM and do NOT increase the bit depth of the bus - this is the task of the memory controller and today it can be done EXCLUSIVELY in the form of soldered HBM3 memory. Which, to the shame and disgrace of the x86 shameful industry, is still used only in servers, and x86 and igpu cores are suffocated by slow memory, so to their shame Intel/AMD are building up crutches - L3 caches that are completely useless in serious computing loads (including games).