I just tried to upgrade the RAM on my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard. I have 2 sticks of generic 2GB DDR2 800MHz DIMMs. During POST it only shows a total of 2GB instead of 4GB. I then ran MemTest86+ ...

So I'm in a bind here in regards to what is causing this or how should I resolve it, but for the past 2 years I've gone through 3 RAM pairs, all of them apparently faulty. First one was clearly effed ...

Case in point, one unlucky shopper thought they were getting DDR5 RAM at a decent price, only to have sticks of DDR2 memory with shoddy printed labels mimicking DDR5 heatsinks turn up at their door.

During the Christmas season, counterfeit hardware often makes the rounds. The storage crisis makes fraud even more lucrative.

VideoCardz reports that a reader recently warned it of a RAM package scam from Amazon. The fraudulent shipment shows that the number of components that warrant ...