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.
bonoboTP12 minutes ago
Why won't they check? It says it on the stick with text. It doesn't look identical.
dathinab8 minutes ago
people already have been doing that with fake "rgb only" RAM sticks
inaros11 minutes ago
Now that you leaked the beans...
LastMuel15 minutes ago
Quickest way for this idea to die a horrible death.
dsign14 minutes ago
Slight tangent, I found this chart for the prices of RAM:
It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet.
Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM", and most of them are garbage for LLMs but still useful for other things, like microcontrollers. So I'm thinking my next "build" is going to be a guitar.
debo_2 hours ago
We should call the fake stick "NAM" for "no access memory." Then you can tell your kids that they couldn't possibly understand, man, because they weren't _there_.
fschuett1 hour ago
You see, kids, back before the RAMargeddon, memory flowed like water. We’d leave thirty Chrome tabs open just for the thrill of it. But then.. the LLMviathans got out. They were hungry. They wanted context and no amount of begging was good enough. I watched a Multi-Headed Attention Swarm rip the roof off a MicroCenter just to gorge on clearance-bin DDR3. During the Siege of Newegg, they came through the fog, screaming "it's not X, it's Y" riddles over the deafening roar of their cooling fans, em-dashes flying everywhere.
We were surrounded and out of cache. Our Electron apps started thrashing to main memory. That’s when Lieutenant ordered us to deploy the Non-Addressable Plastic And LED Modules (NAPALMs for short). We set the fake RGB sticks to 'Rainbow Breathe' and hurled them over the barricades. They took the bait. Their greedy optimization algorithms couldn't resist. The monsters lunged, unhinged their data-ports, and tried to dump a 500-billion token prompt straight into the hollow-point plastic.
(cracks Monster Energy Zero, hits vape, adjust hipster beard, stares into void)
You kids have never seen a physical OutOfMemoryException. I hope you never will. When they hit those null pointers, it opened an inter-dimensional vortex. Their logic boards collapsed under the strain of a thousand unanswered queries, creating a black hole. Flames burning red, blue and green colors all across the AIpocalypse battlefield. So don't complain to me about "why is everything written in Rust now". I love the smell of burning RGB in the morning. Smells like... victory.
pooper1 hour ago
Congratulations. You successfully fooled gptzero.me
I copy pasted your text there and it said 97% AI, 3% mixed.
gzread1 hour ago
They couldn't possibly understand NAM, man
daft_pink31 minutes ago
This is the reason people hate marketers.
skibz17 minutes ago
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 by default". By my angry old man standards, it looks gauche. Then again, I suppose it's the new vanilla?
sidewndr463 hours ago
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.
scotty793 hours ago
First time hearing about this, it's pretty dramatic for me. I grew up in times when computers were off-white and we liked it.
bombcar46 minutes ago
I remember being annoyed that it was hard to get the CDROM burner to match the case if you weren’t standard beige, and when black/clear came out it looked so bad for awhile!
halapro1 hour ago
Modding has been a thing for 20+ years though, people spend money for aesthetic purposes only.
scotty7912 minutes ago
And I mourned every second of it.
embedding-shape10 minutes ago
Instead, value that different humans value different things, life would be utterly boring if everyone was the same, wouldn't it?
embedding-shape1 hour ago
I think that says more about you than the ecosystem at large, people been modding computers for decades at this point, hardly new that some people seem to care more about looks than actually features/functionality/specifications :)
Personally I'm with you (but black), my entire desktop is just one color, and if a component is available in RGB and non-RGB and the difference isn't too big, I pay extra for that non-RGB version (which doesn't make sense it's even the case, but here we are).
I guess you could argue that we're all obsessed with the looks, some that all RAM slots are occupied, some that RGB is everywhere, some that the PC case should be off-white and slowly morph into beige, others that everything should be minimally black.
ralferoo26 minutes ago
Yeah, when I specced my last desktop purchase a few years ago, I just chose the cheapest 4x16GB sticks from a decent brand. Didn't even occur to me that they'd be RGB monstrosities shining their stupid lights out through the case window. The AIO radiator was also similarly annoying, but at least the RGB can be disconnected on that! I hadn't even considered having a case window to be a problem as the previous PC build had a window, but fortunately nothing glowing apart from a couple of small status LEDs on the motherboard.
I don't particularly want to install the bloatware required just to turn off the LEDs, so I've resorted to hiding the PC under a desk at the other side of the room and have long DP and USB cables to the desk where I actually sit. This also has the nice side effect of not being able to hear the fans either!
wolvoleo2 hours ago
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 if you use all 4 slots.
daneel_w2 hours ago
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.
tekla1 hour ago
It does, however, open up your computer to fun security bugs that were totally unnecessary, but you know, you gotta make your computer look like modern art.
Aesthetics are more important for some people than The 0.01% percent chance of an obscure, 8 year old security annomaly. I think those computers look horrible, but they are harmless.
erikerikson6 minutes ago
Oops, someone hit publish 18 days early.
[edit: 19, article published yesterday]
RobotToaster2 hours ago
I don't get it.
Isn't 2x8gb faster than 1x16gb since it will run in dual channel?
And shouldn't smaller capacity sticks be cheaper since they can use lower density chips?
exabrial1 hour ago
Up to a certain point and It’s actually very dependent on the CPU.
Take Epyc processors. On certain ones, after certain RAM amount, populating all the slots causes the cpu to kick the RAM speed to a lower tier.
You’re then limited to capacities of two sticks.
Weird, but it has to do with power requirements. Abutting above the threshold had to be buffered, which increases latency.
p_ing54 minutes ago
It's the signal integrity and applies to desktop class boards, as well. A fully populated four DIMM Intel or AMD board will need to run at a slower mega transfer rate than a two DIMM board (or a four DIMM board with only two DIMMs populated)
officialchicken1 hour ago
Think of it as RGB lighting in DIMM format and it makes a lot more nonsense.
some_random15 minutes ago
Yes but if you want to upgrade later buying another 1x16gb is cheaper than buying 2x16gb and throwing out your 2x8gb (although it's a bit contrived since most motherboards have 4 slots).
barishnamazov1 hour ago
Nobody really buys 8gb sticks anymore, so selling 2x8gb isn't economically great. Also, there are more factors than just density in RAM pricing, but it really depends on the vendor and chip layout design.
vmg121 hour ago
People don't want to buy 2x8gb because there are limited slots on a motherboard and they want to upgrade when they need the extra ram.
colechristensen39 minutes ago
>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.
fulafel9 minutes ago
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.
cwillu13 minutes ago
There is no reason for this to exist except to trick people.
mcfedr7 minutes ago
AI sucks doesn't it
Dwedit18 minutes ago
Are we back to the days of RDRAM when having a blank memory module was actually required?
uyjulian29 minutes ago
Reminds me of Rambus / RDRAM terminator RAM sticks.
zzzeek19 minutes ago
> While they light up and synchronize with your existing RGB ecosystem,
RAM has lights ?
wow I've been living in a cave
Cloudef52 minutes ago
Why haven't prebuilt PC market been doing this to hide the fact they are using a single RAM stick?
onionisafruit21 minutes ago
A fake still costs more than nothing, and they are famous for saving pennies any place they can.
JonChesterfield56 minutes ago
Bad idea. I would be very angry to discover I've bought this. Customer support are going to get shouted at and products returned.
duskdozer46 minutes ago
Lots of two-packs followed by one-returns.
colechristensen42 minutes ago
If you read the article it shows the packaging and is incredibly obvious that one of them is RAM and the other one is filler.
>Performance RAM + RGB Filler Kit
>Complete RGB Look Instantly
cwillu11 minutes ago
You've clearly never worked in retail.
sysguest35 minutes ago
fking can't understand this one...
I mean, it's much cheaper to buy 2x8gb than 1x16gb or even 1x32gb
(and 2x8gb is faster than 1x16gb..)
are these people idiots??? ram-slots are computer real-estates
BoredPositron2 hours ago
It's an RGB kit you could get Corsair dummies for like 10 years now for look maxing your build.
Simulacra1 hour ago
I'm confused, could someone help me clarify: is this just one stick of RAM, and one stick of absolutely nothing, purely for aesthetics? I can't even see inside my CPU, why would I care if there's an empty slot? Why would I pay for a piece of plastic to fill that slot that doesn't do anything?
From the read, it seems like… A scam?
Someone1 hour ago
> I can't even see inside my CPU, why would I care if there's an empty slot?
Then, you’re not the target audience.
> Why would I pay for a piece of plastic to fill that slot that doesn't do anything?
It doesn’t do nothing. FTA: “Their sole purpose is cosmetic, though. While they light up and synchronize with your existing RGB ecosystem, they don't contribute to your computer’s memory capacity or performance.”
Dynamic RGB lighting control synchronized across main leading M/B such as RGB FUSION, MSI Mystic Light Sync, AURA Sync, POLYCHROME Sync etc. Customize lighting profiles or assign colors to each LEDs to create your own spectacular look.“
philjohn1 hour ago
Meanwhile lots of people in the PC building community have cases with glass panels on the side, and go to a lot of effort to make the inside look a certain way. This includes things like custom sleeved cables, perfect cable management, RGB on various things.
I also have a glass panneled side to my computer, but the only RGB on it is on the graphics card waterblock, everything else is just jet black (fans, ZMT water cooling tubing, radiators etc. etc.)
Sharlin50 minutes ago
I'm not in the market for LED bling (though I guess I might've been back when I was 15), but the neat cable management of today's cases definitely appeals to my sense of aesthetics, compared to the terrible mess of the yesteryear.
Sharlin52 minutes ago
I'd estimate that most consumer PC cases sold these days have a glass side panel, and have had for a while.
FpUser2 hours ago
First time in my life I hear about fake RAM
throwaway9427529 minutes ago
Rambus RAM (RDRAM) required unused slots to be populated with Continuity something something Memory Modules (CRIMMs). Basically just a blank DIMM.
ZekeSulastin1 hour ago
The separate light-only sticks are useful if you want the appearance of all four slots filled: having four RAM sticks usually forces a slower memory speed (as the target market typically overclocks their RAM*), so unless you actually need a lot of RAM and can’t get a 2x32 or 2x48 etc kit you’re better off with the fakes.
Edit: this is also why some “extreme overclocking”-type motherboards** only have two DIMM slots: having four actively opposes their purpose.
* And yes, loading an XMP/EXPO profile to get the advertised 3000CL60 or w/e counts!
All 4 of my PC's are 128GB (2 sticks each, no filler) and my home server is 512GB
spacecadet2 hours ago
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!
embedding-shape1 hour ago
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.
iberator26 minutes ago
96bb is like 1% of population. this is not normal. optimize your stack mate.
embedding-shape17 minutes ago
> 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...
FpUser23 minutes ago
Maybe you should tell that to 1% of the people who own half of the world instead
drivingmenuts2 hours ago
This is the computer equivalent of "comfort nuts" for a neutered dog, which is really about the owner, not the dog.
myself2482 hours ago
And pickup trucks, for some reason.
senectus11 hour ago
wow... the enshittification of everything is getting faster every day.
resters1 hour ago
This is the "Trumpification" of gaming PCs, thanks in part to the trade war.
Dwedit16 minutes ago
This time, it has more to do with diminished supply combined with heavy demand rather than a trade war.
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.
Why won't they check? It says it on the stick with text. It doesn't look identical.
people already have been doing that with fake "rgb only" RAM sticks
Now that you leaked the beans...
Quickest way for this idea to die a horrible death.
Slight tangent, I found this chart for the prices of RAM:
https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
It's not looking good, I don't think supply is catching with demand yet.
Though the other day I learned there are many technologies for "RAM", and most of them are garbage for LLMs but still useful for other things, like microcontrollers. So I'm thinking my next "build" is going to be a guitar.
We should call the fake stick "NAM" for "no access memory." Then you can tell your kids that they couldn't possibly understand, man, because they weren't _there_.
You see, kids, back before the RAMargeddon, memory flowed like water. We’d leave thirty Chrome tabs open just for the thrill of it. But then.. the LLMviathans got out. They were hungry. They wanted context and no amount of begging was good enough. I watched a Multi-Headed Attention Swarm rip the roof off a MicroCenter just to gorge on clearance-bin DDR3. During the Siege of Newegg, they came through the fog, screaming "it's not X, it's Y" riddles over the deafening roar of their cooling fans, em-dashes flying everywhere.
We were surrounded and out of cache. Our Electron apps started thrashing to main memory. That’s when Lieutenant ordered us to deploy the Non-Addressable Plastic And LED Modules (NAPALMs for short). We set the fake RGB sticks to 'Rainbow Breathe' and hurled them over the barricades. They took the bait. Their greedy optimization algorithms couldn't resist. The monsters lunged, unhinged their data-ports, and tried to dump a 500-billion token prompt straight into the hollow-point plastic.
(cracks Monster Energy Zero, hits vape, adjust hipster beard, stares into void)
You kids have never seen a physical OutOfMemoryException. I hope you never will. When they hit those null pointers, it opened an inter-dimensional vortex. Their logic boards collapsed under the strain of a thousand unanswered queries, creating a black hole. Flames burning red, blue and green colors all across the AIpocalypse battlefield. So don't complain to me about "why is everything written in Rust now". I love the smell of burning RGB in the morning. Smells like... victory.
Congratulations. You successfully fooled gptzero.me
I copy pasted your text there and it said 97% AI, 3% mixed.
They couldn't possibly understand NAM, man
This is the reason people hate marketers.
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 by default". By my angry old man standards, it looks gauche. Then again, I suppose it's the new vanilla?
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.
First time hearing about this, it's pretty dramatic for me. I grew up in times when computers were off-white and we liked it.
I remember being annoyed that it was hard to get the CDROM burner to match the case if you weren’t standard beige, and when black/clear came out it looked so bad for awhile!
Modding has been a thing for 20+ years though, people spend money for aesthetic purposes only.
And I mourned every second of it.
Instead, value that different humans value different things, life would be utterly boring if everyone was the same, wouldn't it?
I think that says more about you than the ecosystem at large, people been modding computers for decades at this point, hardly new that some people seem to care more about looks than actually features/functionality/specifications :)
Personally I'm with you (but black), my entire desktop is just one color, and if a component is available in RGB and non-RGB and the difference isn't too big, I pay extra for that non-RGB version (which doesn't make sense it's even the case, but here we are).
I guess you could argue that we're all obsessed with the looks, some that all RAM slots are occupied, some that RGB is everywhere, some that the PC case should be off-white and slowly morph into beige, others that everything should be minimally black.
Yeah, when I specced my last desktop purchase a few years ago, I just chose the cheapest 4x16GB sticks from a decent brand. Didn't even occur to me that they'd be RGB monstrosities shining their stupid lights out through the case window. The AIO radiator was also similarly annoying, but at least the RGB can be disconnected on that! I hadn't even considered having a case window to be a problem as the previous PC build had a window, but fortunately nothing glowing apart from a couple of small status LEDs on the motherboard.
I don't particularly want to install the bloatware required just to turn off the LEDs, so I've resorted to hiding the PC under a desk at the other side of the room and have long DP and USB cables to the desk where I actually sit. This also has the nice side effect of not being able to hear the fans either!
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 if you use all 4 slots.
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.
It does, however, open up your computer to fun security bugs that were totally unnecessary, but you know, you gotta make your computer look like modern art.
https://www.pcgamesn.com/asus-gigabyte-security-flaws-secure...
Aesthetics are more important for some people than The 0.01% percent chance of an obscure, 8 year old security annomaly. I think those computers look horrible, but they are harmless.
Oops, someone hit publish 18 days early.
[edit: 19, article published yesterday]
I don't get it.
Isn't 2x8gb faster than 1x16gb since it will run in dual channel?
And shouldn't smaller capacity sticks be cheaper since they can use lower density chips?
Up to a certain point and It’s actually very dependent on the CPU.
Take Epyc processors. On certain ones, after certain RAM amount, populating all the slots causes the cpu to kick the RAM speed to a lower tier.
You’re then limited to capacities of two sticks.
Weird, but it has to do with power requirements. Abutting above the threshold had to be buffered, which increases latency.
It's the signal integrity and applies to desktop class boards, as well. A fully populated four DIMM Intel or AMD board will need to run at a slower mega transfer rate than a two DIMM board (or a four DIMM board with only two DIMMs populated)
Think of it as RGB lighting in DIMM format and it makes a lot more nonsense.
Yes but if you want to upgrade later buying another 1x16gb is cheaper than buying 2x16gb and throwing out your 2x8gb (although it's a bit contrived since most motherboards have 4 slots).
Nobody really buys 8gb sticks anymore, so selling 2x8gb isn't economically great. Also, there are more factors than just density in RAM pricing, but it really depends on the vendor and chip layout design.
People don't want to buy 2x8gb because there are limited slots on a motherboard and they want to upgrade when they need the extra ram.
>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.
There is no reason for this to exist except to trick people.
AI sucks doesn't it
Are we back to the days of RDRAM when having a blank memory module was actually required?
Reminds me of Rambus / RDRAM terminator RAM sticks.
> While they light up and synchronize with your existing RGB ecosystem,
RAM has lights ?
wow I've been living in a cave
Why haven't prebuilt PC market been doing this to hide the fact they are using a single RAM stick?
A fake still costs more than nothing, and they are famous for saving pennies any place they can.
Bad idea. I would be very angry to discover I've bought this. Customer support are going to get shouted at and products returned.
Lots of two-packs followed by one-returns.
If you read the article it shows the packaging and is incredibly obvious that one of them is RAM and the other one is filler.
>Performance RAM + RGB Filler Kit
>Complete RGB Look Instantly
You've clearly never worked in retail.
fking can't understand this one...
I mean, it's much cheaper to buy 2x8gb than 1x16gb or even 1x32gb (and 2x8gb is faster than 1x16gb..)
are these people idiots??? ram-slots are computer real-estates
It's an RGB kit you could get Corsair dummies for like 10 years now for look maxing your build.
I'm confused, could someone help me clarify: is this just one stick of RAM, and one stick of absolutely nothing, purely for aesthetics? I can't even see inside my CPU, why would I care if there's an empty slot? Why would I pay for a piece of plastic to fill that slot that doesn't do anything?
From the read, it seems like… A scam?
> I can't even see inside my CPU, why would I care if there's an empty slot?
Then, you’re not the target audience.
> Why would I pay for a piece of plastic to fill that slot that doesn't do anything?
It doesn’t do nothing. FTA: “Their sole purpose is cosmetic, though. While they light up and synchronize with your existing RGB ecosystem, they don't contribute to your computer’s memory capacity or performance.”
This is for people with transparent PC cases and memory sticks with RGB LED lighting. For example, see https://v-color.net/collections/prism-pro-rgb-memory-voclor/...:
“RGB SOFTWARE SYNCHRONIZATION SUPPORT
Dynamic RGB lighting control synchronized across main leading M/B such as RGB FUSION, MSI Mystic Light Sync, AURA Sync, POLYCHROME Sync etc. Customize lighting profiles or assign colors to each LEDs to create your own spectacular look.“
Meanwhile lots of people in the PC building community have cases with glass panels on the side, and go to a lot of effort to make the inside look a certain way. This includes things like custom sleeved cables, perfect cable management, RGB on various things.
I also have a glass panneled side to my computer, but the only RGB on it is on the graphics card waterblock, everything else is just jet black (fans, ZMT water cooling tubing, radiators etc. etc.)
I'm not in the market for LED bling (though I guess I might've been back when I was 15), but the neat cable management of today's cases definitely appeals to my sense of aesthetics, compared to the terrible mess of the yesteryear.
I'd estimate that most consumer PC cases sold these days have a glass side panel, and have had for a while.
First time in my life I hear about fake RAM
Rambus RAM (RDRAM) required unused slots to be populated with Continuity something something Memory Modules (CRIMMs). Basically just a blank DIMM.
The separate light-only sticks are useful if you want the appearance of all four slots filled: having four RAM sticks usually forces a slower memory speed (as the target market typically overclocks their RAM*), so unless you actually need a lot of RAM and can’t get a 2x32 or 2x48 etc kit you’re better off with the fakes.
Edit: this is also why some “extreme overclocking”-type motherboards** only have two DIMM slots: having four actively opposes their purpose.
* And yes, loading an XMP/EXPO profile to get the advertised 3000CL60 or w/e counts!
** i.e. https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-crosshair/rog-cross...
All 4 of my PC's are 128GB (2 sticks each, no filler) and my home server is 512GB
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.
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...
Maybe you should tell that to 1% of the people who own half of the world instead
This is the computer equivalent of "comfort nuts" for a neutered dog, which is really about the owner, not the dog.
And pickup trucks, for some reason.
wow... the enshittification of everything is getting faster every day.
This is the "Trumpification" of gaming PCs, thanks in part to the trade war.
This time, it has more to do with diminished supply combined with heavy demand rather than a trade war.