2nd article I seen about this, check your chips.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2026
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The stick wouldn't work. It's just a cosmetic thing to make it look like a real stick, so it can be sold as such. Once the consumer gets the stick it wouldn't work and they would return it. But the seller might not have an option to return it. Or it might be sold through one of those ebay/aliexpress/amazon stores that evaporates within a few days.
If you have a working stick in your DDR5 system, the chips are fine.
I also wonder if this is really that wide spread, seems like a lot of trouble to make not a lot of money.
Salt and vinegar just like I paid for.
I don't get it, isn't this trivial to figure out by just plugging it in and seeing that it doesn't run even at the slowest ddr5 speed?
~~The notch is literally in a different place. It's subtle but it is different. It physically wouldn't fit. Doesn't mean someone wouldn't try to force it, seeing as it would be labeled as DDR5, then maybe the damage would make it nonrefundable?~~
I'm an idiot who can't read. Chip != Stick
The article isn't about a ddr4 stick being sold as ddr5, it's about a ddr5 stick with re engraved ddr4 modules on it. There's no point in going through the trouble of re engraving the modules as ddr5 just to put them on a ddr4 stick.
Thanks for the correction. To much doom scrolling for me - I apparently didn't even read the title.
I'd expect it to not run at all, no? Otherwise why are we not seeing ddr5 only mobo/CPU compatible ddr4 sticks?
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.