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Buyer discovers DDR4 chips disguised as DDR5 under Kingston FURY heatsink
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sanitation lemmy.today sanitation@lemmy.today
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Gladaed feddit.org Gladaed@feddit.org
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This is appears to be a used sale hardware sale. Scams have existed for ages.

Also the nature of the module does not actually matter if performance characteristics are provided as advertised. The could ship cow shit for all I care is performance.

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Hamartiogonic sopuli.xyz Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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Oh wow. Someone really put the effort into this scam. Imagine putting the engine of a fiat punto into a ferrari.

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kaidenshi lemmy.world kaidenshi@lemmy.world
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Oh wow. Someone really put the effort into this scam. Imagine putting the engine of a fiat punto into a ferrari.
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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
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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?

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deadbeef79000 lemmy.nz deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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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?

That's what I was thinking.

None of this scam makes any sense.

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