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DDR5 Prices Are Broken, So We Tested Cheaper Chinese RAM (www.techspot.com)
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[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 58 points 20 hours ago

TLDR: they do a bunch of gaming benchmarks and find that the CXMT ram is a tiny bit slower than the name brand ram sticks but seem to work fine. They do absolutely no testing of error rates, Rowhammer, temperature tolerance, etc. The stuff that users trying to compute stuff actually care about.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

I'd wager Steve will hold that information back for a HUB video.

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 5 points 16 hours ago

Thanks Steve

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 3 points 17 hours ago

I think they are most likely fine. I would buy some to try if I needed memory.

this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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