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[–] 13 points 8 months ago

People have their tastes, but I still think this is dumb.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    I hate websites that hijack the back button.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago*

    Next: It's all fillers

    "Enjoy the RGB like with real memory"

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Wouldn't two half-sized sticks perform better?

    I thought dual-channel RAM was a thing at least as far back as the original Socket A nForce chipset.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    You would get some amount of increased performance from dual 8 GB chips, yes, but getting 1x16 GB chip allows you to upgrade to 32 GB later for the cost of 1 more 16 GB chip, instead of having to get a 2x16 GB set. Can be much more economical, especially with prices these days.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    This pill is guaranteed to enhance your ram and impress the ladies!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Why not just sell two 8 gig sticks? You get more channels that way anyways and it's the ram that is expensive not the stick you mount it on.

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    [–] 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    A sucker and his money are soon parted.

    Lets just go back to beige boxes with no glass and no rgb.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It keeps the slot clean until ram is affordable again in 10-15 years

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago*

    This reminds me of the fake animals that people buy in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" for appearances.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Okay, that's kinda hilarious.

    First I've heard of putting LED on RAM.......... which......... ugh......... I mean, the last computer I bought has LED on the fans and I do admit I kinda like having it, but I sure didn't seek it out.... And on my RAM? that's hilarious.

    That said....... alright, long as they're clear about it - and this appears to be imho...... sure, why not? lol

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  • [+] -16 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    NEVER buy a "kit", anyways!!

    IF 1 single stick is bad, but you bought 4 as a "kit", now you have to ship ALL 4 back, for RMA!!

    ONLY buy single-sticks.

    Don't get burned like I did!

    ( no RAM for a few weeks, until they've confirmed, & got around to issuing a replacement, sucks )

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Thought it was usually recommended to use paired sticks since sometimes buying from different batches can cause issues with stability when trying to use xmp/expo

    Though maybe that's outdated advice and newer stuff plays better together.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    The tolerances are tight-enough that "paired sticks" are just sticks from the same bin.

    It's a scam, unless you're overclocking, & running the things outside of their rated voltages/speeds, in which case you're gambling anyways.

    It breaks people getting return-on-a-single-stick, & that may be good for the corporation, but it's bad for the customer.

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  • You couldn’t ask a buddy to borrow a stick or something? This generation is dual channel with single stick. Perf loss from single stick isn’t so bad.. and you definitely don’t need 64GB+ of memory for the majority of use cases, which is where quad stick ddr5 is as a minimum.

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