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Maingear's Opening Salvo for PC Memory Shortage: Supply Your Own
- This past week, Redditor u/Loudenoughforme RMA'd a 96GB DDR5 kit after one stick failed and received a Corsair Light Enhancement Kit instead of DDR5 memory.
- Rising memory costs and prior mis-ship reports set the backdrop as DDR5 price inflation and tighter allocations drive scams, with similar incidents reported from Amazon Warehouse and two Corsair cases this week.
- Photos show the replacement sticks had fewer gold contact pads and looked different, fitting motherboard RAM slots but failing as dummy RGB DIMMs without memory.
- Corsair support has opened an inquiry and has the buyer's ticket number, while the official Corsair subreddit and Discord moderator connected the buyer to support; it's unclear if this was an internal error or malicious tampering.
- Prebuilt PC vendors now offer BYO RAM or no-RAM options, starting in 2026, as memory shortage forecasts into 2026–27 persist, prompting industry shifts.
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