what happens if you slice a Pin off of RAM?

What happens if you slice off a pin on a stick of RAM?After all, modern RAM has 288 of these gold -plated pins, each serving a very particular purpose.Some are responsible for carrying data, other are command pins, we have clock pins, power pins, error management pins, you name it.So after cutting this pin off, I'm also gonna cover it with a marker to ensure that no electricity is flowing through it at all, which means this is now a 287 -pin stick of RAM.

But do you think there's any chance that it still works?Well, to find out, we can install it into our computer, press the power button.To see that, not only does this computer still spin to life, we even get a posted signal.

That's crazy.Look, our computer's recognizing all eight gigs of this stick of RAM.Granted, it's not under load, but the reason this works is because we specifically cut out pin 205, which is marked as RFU, or reserved for future use.So the real question I have is what's the absolute minimum number of pins that a stick of RAM needs to still function?There are two more RFU pins we could cut out.I'm sure there are redundant ground pins we could also cut out.

Could we get this as low as a 270 pin stick of RAM?It doesn't really serve any true purpose.I guess it makes your computer lighter, hypothetically, but it mainly just carries from a science perspective.So follow along if you want to know to see me cut up more RAM.