Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

tomshardware.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 195 posts

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#71

Post by fwipsy »

skibz wrote: post #53

I miss the days when most people had a vanilla looking computer. You wouldn't have felt out of place at the LAN party lugging in your dad's old Packard Bell tower that you used for your gaming rig. We still appreciated visually stunning PCs. Not just for the works of art that they were, but also for the DIY skill and ethic you were actually required to demonstrate to build and mod them. Nowadays, it's all just "RGB b…

Any popular aesthetic will be commoditized eventually. The new frontier is SFF PCs! -Rockin a ~5L SKTC A07 with r5-5600, rtx 4060, and zero RGB.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#72

Post by MengerSponge »

dsign wrote: post #59

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.

> It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet.

Surely this will be helped by a helium supply shock.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#73

Post by fecal_henge »

ralferoo wrote: post #47
embedding-shape wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that says more about you than the ecosystem at large, people been modding computers for decades at this point, hardly new that some people seem to care more about looks than actually features/functionality/specifications :) Personally I'm with you (but black), my entire desktop is just one color, and if a component is available in RGB and non-RGB and the difference isn't too big, I pay extra for that non-RGB…

Yeah, when I specced my last desktop purchase a few years ago, I just chose the cheapest 4x16GB sticks from a decent brand. Didn't even occur to me that they'd be RGB monstrosities shining their stupid lights out through the case window. The AIO radiator was also similarly annoying, but at least the RGB can be disconnected on that! I hadn't even considered having a case window to be a problem as the previous PC build…

I had no idea what RGB was on my spec selection. Thank God I picked a boring opaque box. Must be quite a party in there.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#74

Post by MengerSponge »

dom96 wrote: post #70
dsign wrote: post #59

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.

Super interesting charts there. What's really interesting to me is that the GPU prices (which also includes RAM) didn't see such a massive increase in price as the RAM itself. Anyone know why that is?

RAM is just part of the GPU bill of materials?

It might also be that NVIDIA is a natural monopoly, while memory manufacturers are a cartel...

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#76

Post by wizzwizz4 »

pooper wrote: post #27
fschuett wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[dead]

[flagged]

If you compose a text of enough references and (well-known) in-jokes, and get the perplexity/burstiness stats right, you too can reliably produce text that the AI-detectors think is inhuman. I suspect that doesn't work so well for the latest-generation AI-detection systems (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103465), but there's definitely a way to fool those, too.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#77

Post by ryukoposting »

bonoboTP wrote: post #62
alpaca128 wrote: post #54

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.

Why won't they check? It says it on the stick with text. It doesn't look identical.

Does it say it on both sides? Just flip it over.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#78

Post by badlucklottery »

skibz wrote: post #53

I miss the days when most people had a vanilla looking computer. You wouldn't have felt out of place at the LAN party lugging in your dad's old Packard Bell tower that you used for your gaming rig. We still appreciated visually stunning PCs. Not just for the works of art that they were, but also for the DIY skill and ethic you were actually required to demonstrate to build and mod them. Nowadays, it's all just "RGB b…

I've been a watercooling "enthusiast" for about 20 years now and, while the DIY-ness of the old school builds was a lot of fun for young me, I'm also glad I can just buy some off-the-shelf (or at worst "small batch") components that let me get really effective and near silent performance by just slamming some stuff together.

No more scouring junk yards for a particular heater core from wrecked cars or modding aquarium pumps.

That being said, I also never really understood the "add colorful lights to your PC" aspect of some builds.

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#79

Post by merelysounds »

skibz wrote: post #53

I miss the days when most people had a vanilla looking computer. You wouldn't have felt out of place at the LAN party lugging in your dad's old Packard Bell tower that you used for your gaming rig. We still appreciated visually stunning PCs. Not just for the works of art that they were, but also for the DIY skill and ethic you were actually required to demonstrate to build and mod them. Nowadays, it's all just "RGB b…

In other news, there are new cases in beige being produced, some with turbo buttons and mock 5.25 inch floppy drives.

https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chas...

Re: RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

#80

Post by scotty79 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #65
scotty79 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And I mourned every second of it.

Instead, value that different humans value different things, life would be utterly boring if everyone was the same, wouldn't it?

I jest of course, but I do seem to have min-maxing tendencies.
Post reply on HN