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RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion
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this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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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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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Though maybe that's outdated advice and newer stuff plays better together.
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.