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First time hearing about this, it's pretty dramatic for me. I grew up in times when computers were off-white and we liked it.
Modding has been a thing for 20+ years though, people spend money for aesthetic purposes only.
Can't wait for people to buy two of these sets, take the real RAM sticks and refund the two fake ones in one package. There's no way the seller is going to manually check every returned stick.
Bad idea. I would be very angry to discover I've bought this. Customer support are going to get shouted at and products returned.
If you read the article it shows the packaging and is incredibly obvious that one of them is RAM and the other one is filler. >Performance RAM + RGB Filler Kit >Complete RGB Look Instantly
Can't wait for people to buy two of these sets, take the real RAM sticks and refund the two fake ones in one package. There's no way the seller is going to manually check every returned stick.
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Modding has been a thing for 20+ years though, people spend money for aesthetic purposes only.
And I mourned every second of it.
I don't get it. Isn't 2x8gb faster than 1x16gb since it will run in dual channel? And shouldn't smaller capacity sticks be cheaper since they can use lower density chips?
>And shouldn't smaller capacity sticks be cheaper since they can use lower density chips? In 2026 the bottleneck is wafer size as fabs are booked out making things for AI.
Can't wait for people to buy two of these sets, take the real RAM sticks and refund the two fake ones in one package. There's no way the seller is going to manually check every returned stick.
[edit: 19, article published yesterday]
Slight tangent, I found this chart for the prices of RAM: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/ It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet. Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM", and most of them are garbage for LLMs but still useful for other things, like microcontrollers. So I'm thinking my next "build" is going to be a guitar.