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

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

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Post by PunchyHamster »

daneel_w wrote: post #9
wolvoleo wrote: post #8

At least they are upfront about it. I don't see the point though even for a gaming setup, as the fake modules will still reduce airflow. Also, gaming boards usually have 4 slots (in 2 banks). I would fill at least 2, so I'd rather have a matched kit of 2 modules, and 2 separate fillers, if I did use them. It is quite common to leave 2 memory slots empty (of RAM) because many boards can't drive the memory at top speed…

And stuffing your PC case with various disco lights doesn't affect its performance either. But an evidently large portion of gamers are, well, special people.

Lmao, I got RGB coz it was the cheaper one

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

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Post by Aardwolf »

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…

Yep, there were people hand-building wooden PC cases, building a fish tank into their case, painting fancy colors and patterns on it, ... And there were colored LEDs too, but they didn't come with bloatware OS-dependent software, because they didn't need software

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

butz wrote: post #87

How about we use all that AI and start doing some serious optimizations to existing software? Reduce memory requirements by half, or even more.

Plenty of people do.

AI is one of the few major general technological breakthroughs, comparable to the Internet and electricity. It's potentially applicable to everything, which is why right now everyone is trying to apply it to everything. Including developing new optimization algorithms, optimizing optimizing compilers, optimizing applications, optimizing systems, optimizing hardware, ...

Big AI vendors are at the forefront of it, because they're the ones who actually pay for the AI revolution, so any efficiency improvement saves them money.

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

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Post by Fluorescence »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #2

This article seems a bit dramatic in it's title? People have purchased "blank" RAM for years for the aesthetic of it. I do not personally see the point, but I also don't have motherboards with unpopulated RAM slots. If a company wants to sell a kit that is 50/50, I am not sure that is actually a problem.

I would love to have blanks for every unused socket/port to keep dust out.

I'm just too cheap to pay for them though...

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

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Post by colechristensen »

fulafel wrote: post #66
colechristensen wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

Lower density chips are cheaper, because they can be made in previous generation fabs churning out previous generation wafers with previous generation equipment. So there isn't a choice between making a high or low density wafer from the same fab line.

Is there all that much using larger node sizes for new RAM?

Or is it just binning by defects, the lower sized parts are just the full size but with defects disabling large chunks of the silicon as I would expect?

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

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Post by spacecadet »

embedding-shape wrote: post #31
spacecadet wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many kit builders with flashy PCs are only running 32gb. If you look at datasets like Steams, most people are still on 16 and 32. Hell 4% are still on 8!

Meanwhile I moved platform from AM4 at exactly the wrong moment, and downgraded RAM (temporarily, I hope) from 192GB to 96GB and feel like I'm missing half my workspace when I need it.

Not bragging, but I lucked out... Upgraded to 192 and 10tb of M2 SSD's last year and its the first time in my life my workstation has appreciated...

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

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Post by SoftTalker »

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.

... and then the next person who buys RAM on Amazon gets the returned package with the two fake sticks.

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

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Post by spacecadet »

embedding-shape wrote: post #55
iberator wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

96bb is like 1% of population. this is not normal. optimize your stack mate.

> 96bb is like 1% of population. this is not normal. optimize your stack mate. Of course it isn't normal, that's why I made my comment, to highlight the contrast. And no, my stack is optimized, you have no idea what I'm doing, yet somehow feel confident enough to know what my stack should/shouldn't look like? Man, the hubris of some people... Next you'd probably tell me my Threadripper 9970X and RTX PRO 6000 is overk…

Classic hacker news comment mate.

Your system sounds great to me, curious what you have going on!

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