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Buyer discovers DDR4 chips disguised as DDR5 under Kingston FURY heatsink (videocardz.com)
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[โ€“] 3bygone3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd expect it to not run at all, no? Otherwise why are we not seeing ddr5 only mobo/CPU compatible ddr4 sticks?

[โ€“] Lojcs@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Idk, I assumed as they're on a ddr5 stick their interface must be compatible or get translated somehow to make the computer boot up. Otherwise they could avoid all the trouble and ship an empty stick.