Need details for this set of DDR4 RAM in the picture

[metrobot]

Hi

Could someone please tell me what set this is? Is it a 2 x 32Gb set of 64Gb or is it a 2 x 16Gb set of 32Gb combined?

I can see it's 2666mhz, DDR4 but that's where it ends.

I cannot seem to be able to find any details online about them. I simply require a confirmation of what this is.

Thank you.

 

[Martinr36]

looks like a pair of 32GB to me

 

[metrobot]

So, you're saying it's 32 each? I hope so. Won the auction on eBay for this supposed 64Gb of DDR4 but thought I'd check before I pay. No info online whatsoever anywhere on the whole wide web.

 

[Martinr36]

So, you're saying it's 32 each? I hope so. Won the auction on eBay for this supposed 64Gb of DDR4 but thought I'd check before I pay. No info online whatsoever anywhere on the whole wide web.

Yep that's what I'm saying, but if you want to be doubly sure, give PCS a call and get them to check the part No for you

 

[metrobot]

I've already given them a call and they have no clue. Spoke to someone who said that my best bet is to post it on the forum because they couldn't recognise the batch number or the serial code, even though these are a few months old, but it looks like their product. They couldn't tell because they switch suppliers often and without a receipt to check, they couldn't tell me. I'm at the end of the tunnel and there's no light shining.

 

[B4zookaw]

The only real way to confirm their specs is to plug them in and see what they're detected as

 

[metrobot]

Yeah, I figured that out. However it's really difficult when you have to buy them online and you don't know what you're buying and even figure out whether they will be compatible with your other components or not. There's no size specified (let's exclude guesswork, please), no latency, no manufacturer or if it can be overclocked (highly doubt it). At least they specified the speed and some serial numbers and barcodes that mean absolutely nothing to everyone including themselves.

I don't think I'm gonna say anything more about it as it'll come accross as rather rude, aggressive and verbally violent if I express my feelings about this kind of business practice that pc specialist are adopting. But what I can say is that it's not fair, no matter which point of view you look from.

 

[sck451]

I understand your frustration here. Personally, though, I wouldn't go near this kind of cheap, generic and relatively slow RAM whatever the capacity. I'm not sure it's shady so much as extremely budget, and that's never a place where you get good value.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Yeah, I figured that out. However it's really difficult when you have to buy them online and you don't know what you're buying and even figure out whether they will be compatible with your other components or not. There's no size specified (let's exclude guesswork, please), no latency, no manufacturer or if it can be overclocked (highly doubt it). At least they specified the speed and some serial numbers and barcodes that mean absolutely nothing to everyone including themselves.

I don't think I'm gonna say anything more about it as it'll come accross as rather rude, aggressive and verbally violent if I express my feelings about this kind of business practice that pc specialist are adopting. But what I can say is that it's not fair, no matter which point of view you look from.

This is OEM RAM, it's not for the retail market, that's the point. PCS aren't selling it as they don't sell on the public retail market. There's nothing unusual about it, the question is what's making you resort to buying cheap OEM RAM from a questionable seller over branded retail DIMMS from a proper outlet? PCS have no responsibility outside of their own systems I'm afraid, it's nothing to do with them.

Don't cheap out. No OEM will keep a backlog of what each part number is, they change suppliers often, it's not a viable expectation. And RAM is not a universal standard, DIMMS are only designed to be used on a subset of motherboards, especially so with OEM RAM. It's not like an SSD which is a universal standard.

Furthermore, it will only have been tested amongst the PCS configurations that PCS we're selling at the time, if your motherboard is not one of the ones that the RAM was designed for, there's every chance it won't even boot. Every motherboard has a RAM qualified vendor list, the PCS RAM will be no different.

If it's a matched pair of DIMMS, then the part number reflects the overall quantity, so that's 2 x 16GB DIMMS I believe.

If they're in fact single unmatched DIMMS, then they're each 32GB, but have been missold as a matched pair.

 

[B4zookaw]

Yeah, I figured that out. However it's really difficult when you have to buy them online and you don't know what you're buying and even figure out whether they will be compatible with your other components or not. There's no size specified (let's exclude guesswork, please), no latency, no manufacturer or if it can be overclocked (highly doubt it). At least they specified the speed and some serial numbers and barcodes that mean absolutely nothing to everyone including themselves.

I don't think I'm gonna say anything more about it as it'll come accross as rather rude, aggressive and verbally violent if I express my feelings about this kind of business practice that pc specialist are adopting. But what I can say is that it's not fair, no matter which point of view you look from.

Not sure why you’re pointing the finger at PC Specialist, they didn’t sell you the RAM, you bought it from a random seller on eBay. If you had concerns about the spec, talk to the seller. If they can’t provide the info, then walk away.

The fact you decided to go ahead with the purchase despite the lack of info means the only person to blame here is yourself.
Caveat emptor.

 

[AgentCooper]

Caveat emptor.

This is the UK forum where English must be used. For the Latin version, please visit www.pcspecialist.deadlanguage/forum

Aside from that; good point well made, sir 👍

 

[metrobot]

Guys, listen, I fully appreciate your opinions and your effort and time put into replying to my issue. Thank you.

However, some of what some of you have said is rather daft. I did not come here to ask for opinions on what to buy? Now that's out of the way, let's get back to the topic. I came here to ask for "details about that set of dodgy, nameless, branded (to some extent) RAM pair of sticks. Nothing more, nothing less. If you don't know either, what's the point in recommending how to spend my money? I'm not rude but you're completely off topic.

Regarding PC Specialist, it's purely bad practice. Particularly when you sell a product, be it OEM, but you are incapable to recognise your own product. I personally have done business in a diferent electronic area, but hell I knew every single product I sold and everything inside it. Not only me, but everyone in the company, all my employees had to know everything because otherwise who could trust us, right? I'm not expecting you guys to know, but a company cannot under any circumstances send me to seek info about their own proprietary products, on their forum, but from other people like their customers, I imagine. And if the "manufacturers/distributors/rebranders" don't know what heir product is, how could the seller?

So, to answer one question, I'm pointing the finger at PC Specialist because this business is nothing but a joke. And that's very kindly put.

Regarding me, it doesn't matter what I do and who I buy a "PC Specialist" product from as long as it's genuine (whatever that may be. really). None of your concern and none of their concern. Whether I'm stupid or not, is also none of anyone else's business. I have not come here to voice my online sins so that you could forgive me.

Lastly, I do not cheap out on OEM RAM nor do I have any intention to "invest in an upgrade for my rig" (as the pros say). I simply found a pair of 2x32GB DDR4 Ram for a very cheap price of £40, which is about a quarter of similarly sized RAM memory, and I believed it would be totally worth a try. But I wanted to know from the manufacturers or someone, exactly what the hell have I bought, since there is no online trace of that product.

I will end on a good note.

I bought the Ram and they were delivered quickly, Got them today, took my 4x8gb Corsair sticks out of my Z170XP-SLI motherboard (i7-6700K CPU) with a 2016 BIOS, not even updated. Both of which, according to official Intel and Gigabyte official sources, the maximum supported RAM/stick, for either is 16GB. Everyone else on the internet says the exact same, of course, along with personal opinions and recommendations about how others should live their life and spend their money, but I truly enjoy to take my chances and play my own game.

Lo and behhold....

Ready?

They both worked, straight away, no questions asked, 32GB each, 64GB in total, 2666mhz. They even like being ever so slightly overclocked. Will surely push them a bit further.

But my findings are as follows: PC Specialist are a shady business without a clue about the products they're selling, Intel and Gigabyte (on this occasion) have no idea what they're talking about or they lie for some reason. And the confirmed facts found on the internet are merely opinions, but wrong as facts, and completely misleading.

And I actually get a few extra frames in Assassins Creed Valhalla. Even though these 2666mhz replaced my 3000mhz XMP Corsair. Weird, right? Thumbs up to PC Specialist! Great quality on a shady product.

So, if you have similar components, go ahead and buy cheap random RAM in ridiculous and unusual sizes like 32GB and you will be surprised how well it works. More and better than higher mhz Corsair? Yeah, what more can I say?

THANK YOU PC SPECIALIST, for producing these unreal things! Please keep not selling them to anyone.

 

[RichLan564]

Guys, listen, I fully appreciate your opinions and your effort and time put into replying to my issue. Thank you.

However, some of what some of you have said is rather daft. I did not come here to ask for opinions on what to buy? Now that's out of the way, let's get back to the topic. I came here to ask for "details about that set of dodgy, nameless, branded (to some extent) RAM pair of sticks. Nothing more, nothing less. If you don't know either, what's the point in recommending how to spend my money? I'm not rude but you're completely off topic.

Regarding PC Specialist, it's purely bad practice. Particularly when you sell a product, be it OEM, but you are incapable to recognise your own product. I personally have done business in a diferent electronic area, but hell I knew every single product I sold and everything inside it. Not only me, but everyone in the company, all my employees had to know everything because otherwise who could trust us, right? I'm not expecting you guys to know, but a company cannot under any circumstances send me to seek info about their own proprietary products, on their forum, but from other people like their customers, I imagine. And if the "manufacturers/distributors/rebranders" don't know what the f their product is, how could the seller?

So, to answer one question, I'm pointing the finger at PC Specialist because this business is nothing but a chinese joke. And that's very kindly put.

Regarding me, it doesn't matter what I do and who I buy a "PC Specialist" product from as long as it's genuine (whatever that may be. really). None of your concern and none of their concern. Whether I'm stupid or not, is also none of anyone else's business. I have not come here to voice my online sins so that you could forgive me.

Lastly, I do not cheap out on OEM RAM nor do I have any intention to "invest in an upgrade for my rig" (as the pros say). I simply found a pair of 2x32GB DDR4 Ram for a very cheap price of £40, which is about a quarter of similarly sized RAM memory, and I believed it would be totally worth a try. But I wanted to know from the manufacturers or someone, exactly what the hell have I bought, since there is no online trace of that product.

I will end on a good note.

I bought the Ram and they were delivered quickly, Got them today, took my 4x8gb Corsair sticks out of my Z170XP-SLI motherboard (i7-6700K CPU) with a 2016 BIOS, not even updated. Both of which, according to official Intel and Gigabyte official sources, the maximum supported RAM/stick, for either is 16GB. Everyone else on the internet says the exact same, of course, along with personal opinions and recommendations about how others should live their life and spend their money, but I truly enjoy to take my chances and play my own game.

Lo and behhold....

Ready?

They both worked, straight away, no questions asked, 32GB each, 64GB in total, 2666mhz. They even like being ever so slightly overclocked. Will surely push them a bit further.

But my findings are as follows: PC Specialist are a shady business without a clue about the products they're selling, Intel and Gigabyte (on this occasion) have no idea what they're talking about or they lie for some reason. And the confirmed facts found on the internet are merely opinions, but wrong as facts, and completely misleading.

And I actually get a few extra frames in Assassins Creed Valhalla. Even though these 2666mhz replaced my 3000mhz XMP Corsair. Weird, right? Thumbs up to PC Specialist! Great quality on shady product.

So, if you have similar components, go ahead and buy cheap random RAM in ridiculous and unusual sizes like 32GB and you will be surprised how well it works. More and better than higher mhz Corsair? Yeah, what more can I say?

THANK YOU PC SPECIALIST, for producing these unreal things! Please keep not selling them to anyone.

What planet are you on?

This is the most confusing post i have read in a good long while.

 

[metrobot]

In all fairness, I wish I was not on this one. It's way past its best before. Feel free to ask away!

Happy to clarify if you would point me to your confusion.

 

[DeletedUser]

What planet are you on?

This is the most confusing post i have read in a good long while.

I found it perfectly clear, albeit in a less than concise way (which I have a habit of doing myself so not an issue). Ignoring everything about whether the OP should have bought RAM on eBay without being able to know exactly what they are buying, whether they should have "cheaped out on RAM" etc as none of it is the issue.

The primary issue relates to a post earlier...Martin correctly pointed the OP to call PCS to confirm what exactly the sticks of RAM were and:

"I've already given them a call and they have no clue. Spoke to someone who said that my best bet is to post it on the forum because they couldn't recognise the batch number or the serial code, even though these are a few months old, but it looks like their product. They couldn't tell because they switch suppliers often and without a receipt to check, they couldn't tell me. I'm at the end of the tunnel and there's no light shining."

In this day and age where everything is computerised, it shouldn't matter if PCS change suppliers every single day...they should have some record of what they have sold. And to then be directed to post on a user-led forum where there is almost no hope anyone would know (unless someone who has that exact RAM notices the post of course)?

 

[SpyderTracks]

In this day and age where everything is computerised, it shouldn't matter if PCS change suppliers every single day...they should have some record of what they have sold. And to then be directed to post on a user-led forum where there is almost no hope anyone would know (unless someone who has that exact RAM notices the post of course)?

But they don't, weather we think they should do or not, doesn't change that the OP bought a product not sold on the consumer space for a very good reason, because it's not validated for that market.

It's not any responsibility of pcs to confirm details as the OP is not a customer.

Theyve already stated they don't know the model. The rest is up to the OP

 

[RichLan564]

I found it perfectly clear, albeit in a less than concise way (which I have a habit of doing myself so not an issue). Ignoring everything about whether the OP should have bought RAM on eBay without being able to know exactly what they are buying, whether they should have "cheaped out on RAM" etc as none of it is the issue.

The primary issue relates to a post earlier...Martin correctly pointed the OP to call PCS to confirm what exactly the sticks of RAM were and:

"I've already given them a call and they have no clue. Spoke to someone who said that my best bet is to post it on the forum because they couldn't recognise the batch number or the serial code, even though these are a few months old, but it looks like their product. They couldn't tell because they switch suppliers often and without a receipt to check, they couldn't tell me. I'm at the end of the tunnel and there's no light shining."

In this day and age where everything is computerised, it shouldn't matter if PCS change suppliers every single day...they should have some record of what they have sold. And to then be directed to post on a user-led forum where there is almost no hope anyone would know (unless someone who has that exact RAM notices the post of course)?

Erm OK, thanks for dissecting the post, my comment was rather tongue in cheek but i guess that's been lost

Also this statement from the OP is just bizarre:

But my findings are as follows: PC Specialist are a shady business without a clue about the products they're selling, Intel and Gigabyte (on this occasion) have no idea what they're talking about or they lie for some reason. And the confirmed facts found on the internet are merely opinions, but wrong as facts, and completely misleading.

 

[ubuysa]

I find it sad, and somewhat disappointing, how some people think that their poor choices are always somebody else's fault.

The OP bought a set of RAM sticks, presumably second-hand, from a seller that they didn't know from the Man in the Moon, from an online auction site. Having seemingly failed to do any research on exactly what it was that they were buying, before they parted with their money, they then get grumpy on here because PCS, who go through RAM sticks in their tens of thousands, are not able to give them any details on their recent purchase.

Further, because PCS weren't able to do the OP's research for them, the OP then determined that PCS - the entire company mind - is "a shady business". I fail to see how the conclusion follows from the evidence here? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "shady" in this context as meaning; uncertain, unreliable, or disreputable.

According the OP themselves, PCS explained that "they couldn't tell because they switch suppliers often and without a receipt to check, they couldn't tell me". What is uncertain, unreliable, or disreputable about that? In this particular instance, you were fortunate that PCS even bothered to try looking for you. They were under no obligation, moral or legal, to assist you, because you weren't buying them from PCS. That they tried to help someone who is not a customer at all, is a credit to the company. That they couldn't find the information the OP wanted is unfortunate, but hardly "shady".

You later claimed; "but what I can say is that it's not fair, no matter which point of view you look from". How is it "not fair" that PCS refuse to provide details of a product for which they are not the seller? If you buy a house second-hand, you wouldn't expect the house builder to provide you with details on the exact model of power sockets they had fitted 20 years earlier!

What's not fair here is expecting, indeed demanding, that PCS help you discover whether a product you've already bought, and which has nothing to do with PCS, is actually what you wanted. You decided to buy the RAM sticks and it would have been entirely your fault if they had not been what you expected.

I would like to be happy for you that things turned out so well in the end, unfortunately I am unable to be happy for someone who blames everyone else for their own poor decision making.

 

[AgentCooper]

And on that note… I’m locking this thread. OP has the info they needed and I can’t see anything constructive coming out of keeping it open.