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.
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.