OLED on RAM, wtf?

Kevin Hofer

17.9.2025

Translation: Katherine Martin

In a bid to stand out from the crowd of DDR5 RAM manufacturers, V-Color’s launching memory modules with built-in OLED. I’m trying to figure out why.

These days, we’re seeing OLED displays on everything from mainboards to air and water coolers to graphics cards. Now, V-Color’s added one to its RAM. Having showcased its XFinity memory kits at Computex several months ago, the manufacturer’s now ready to take them to market. V-Colour announced as much in this video a few days ago:

Generally speaking, I think screens are a great thing. With a display, you have key information such as CPU utilisation and temperature at your fingertips. Which brings me to my main beef with OLEDs on RAM. Screens are supposed to show you stuff. The thing is, you don’t usually see the side of your RAM, as it tends to be covered by cables, your PC case or something else. So what’s the point in a screen you can’t see?

To make matters worse, RAM usually slots vertically into your PC case. So even if you had a clear view of the module, you’d have to read the text on the display from the bottom to top instead of left to right. Not to mention the fact you’d be looking at it from an acute angle. Seems like a hassle to me.

Admittedly, there are some situations when RAM would be visible. Think test benches used by hardware reviewers or overclockers. However, these people generally don’t specifically use a screen to monitor their components. Instead, they’ll opt for software that records everything. I can only think of one other scenario when it might make sense to have a RAM module like V-Color’s. In scratch builds – one-off PC cases built entirely from scratch – the RAM can deliberately be placed centre stage. However, there’s only a small market for this.

Even if future showcase PC cases are designed for visible RAM, I still don’t see the point in having OLED on memory modules. Mainboards, coolers or dedicated side screens are better suited to the job, purely because of their ability to display more data at a given moment thanks to their size.

What do you think? Do you plan to buy RAM with built-in OLED? Or do you think it’s a load of rubbish?

Kevin Hofer

Senior Editor

kevin.hofer@digitecgalaxus.ch

From big data to big brother, Cyborgs to Sci-Fi. All aspects of technology and society fascinate me.

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