▲ 74 ▼ Buyer discovers DDR4 chips disguised as DDR5 under Kingston FURY heatsink (videocardz.com) submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world 3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (1 child) I mean, surely they'll notice pretty immediately when the DDR4 just straight up doesn't work with their DDR5 CPU and motherboard. The electrical connections aren't the same! Frankly, I don't see why they bother with actual chips (DDR4 or otherwise) at all. If it's not going to work anyway, why not just glue on rectangles of plain black plastic? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago That's what I was thinking. None of this scam makes any sense. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (1 child) I mean, surely they'll notice pretty immediately when the DDR4 just straight up doesn't work with their DDR5 CPU and motherboard. The electrical connections aren't the same! Frankly, I don't see why they bother with actual chips (DDR4 or otherwise) at all. If it's not going to work anyway, why not just glue on rectangles of plain black plastic? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago That's what I was thinking. None of this scam makes any sense. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago That's what I was thinking. None of this scam makes any sense. permalink fedilink source parent