Fake DDR5 RAM sticks are now using plastic chips to fool buyers

Counterfeit DDR5 RAM sticks with fake labels and even dummy plastic chips are reportedly flooding PC markets amid rising memory prices.
Tech Times

Fake DDR5 RAMs Using Plastic Chips Are Circulating Amid Global Shortage

Online testers have discovered that fake DDR5 RAMs using plastic chips are now circulating in the market amid the ongoing ...

Fake DDR5 sticks with dummy plastic chips are the latest RAM scam

A Japanese X user called TAKI drew attention to the scam with a post showing some of the counterfeits. The photos show a 16GB DDR5 SO-DIMM ...
Hackaday

ram stick

Today’s memory sticks have hundreds of pins and many gigabytes of RAM on board. Decades ago, though, the humble 30-pin SIMM was the state of the art where memory was concerned. If you’ve got vintage ...

RAM budget is broken. Here’s how smart gamers are adapting

Anyone who has priced out a gaming PC build lately, has probably noticed that RAM costs way more than it used to. A $1,000 ...
TweakTown

RISC-V systems support replacing RAM sticks WITHOUT powering off the system

The upcoming version 6.11 of the mainline Linux kernel has support for RISC-V memory hot plugging, meaning you can pull RAM sticks out of your PC without turning it off... very nice. The Linux kernel ...