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Corsair now sell 'Fake Ram' to fill your RGB needs

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Just now, Fez_Boy said:

Profit ma dude, profit is important.

Ok, why is it not 100000$ then? This argument makes no sense. Of course corsair wants to make more money with fewer costs, that doesn't mean the product isn't overpriced and a ripoff.

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Just now, Sauron said:

Ok, why is it not 100000$ then? This argument makes no sense. Of course corsair wants to make more money with fewer costs, that doesn't mean the product isn't overpriced and a ripoff.

You're not taking into account the millions of other things they have to pay for and make a profit on top of: 

 

People to put it together, equipment to put it together, marketing, they have to make up for previous losses, distribution, and many others. 

 

As for your hundred thousand dollar question, it's a matter of value.  They have to make it expensive enough to make a profit without being so expensive as to drive away customers.  It's a balancing act.   

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6 minutes ago, Fez_Boy said:

You're not taking into account the millions of other things they have to pay for and make a profit on top of: 

 

People to put it together, equipment to put it together, marketing, they have to make up for previous losses, distribution, and many others.

I absolutely AM accounting for those.

7 minutes ago, Fez_Boy said:

As for your hundred thousand dollar question, it's a matter of value.  They have to make it expensive enough to make a profit without being so expensive as to drive away customers.  It's a balancing act.  

I'm saying costumers should feel driven away at this price point. I sure do.

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The ultimate guide to making yourself look richer than you already are!!

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So it's for the people that care enough about aesthetics to spend $40 to not have an empty slot, but not enough to just buy another kit

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O O O....

 

only 40 for a rgb stick with only rgb......

 

Must Urge Not To....

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Overpriced.

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Hasnt this been out for a while now? My friend got a vengeance kit a bit back that had two dummy RGB sticks so that there wasnt two empty slots. 

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Pretty smart actually, the biggest downside of rgb RAM is the imbalance

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someone's going to buy this thinking that it is real ram 

 

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Gigabyte's been doing this for quite a while on 2x RGB module kits that have 2 demo modules as they call them included. Not available separately though. 

 

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25 minutes ago, Arokhantos said:

So these are heatsinks for existing ram ?

No, imitation sticks.  I would buy that tho. 

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4 hours ago, AngryBeaver said:

Not sure dual channel means what you think it does.

 

having 4x4 or 4x8 would have no effect on it being dual channel or not. Dual channel motherboards would have 2 or 4 slots in most cases.  Triple channel could a multiple of 3 and would scale to the number of cores. Same for quad-channel.

 

So a single cpu motherboard would generally have 12 ram slots for triple channel and a quad-channel would have 16.

Huh? Every single quad channel motherboard I've seen has 8 slots, not 16.

4 hours ago, Sauron said:

When I buy LEDs I am already paying for someone's profit margin. I don't buy a container of the damn things, I don't get OEM discounts. There are reasonable profit margins, and then there are 300%+ margins which are utter nonsense. If the price had been 80$, would you still have considered it reasonable because the real ram with the same looks would cost you twice as much? Of course you can probably afford to spend 40$, or burn them for that matter, if you bought the 150$ ram kit these are designed to mimic - but that doesn't mean it's not a complete ripoff. Just like you probably wouldn't burn 30$, I don't see why you should pay them on top of what something like this is actually worth.

No, because $80 would be unreasonable. It's not $80 though, is it. So it's an odd point to make. That's like asking if a Tesla would be worth it if it cost $250,000...but they don't, so why ask?

 

So you think they should sell it at cost? What sense does that make? That would be a completely pointless business decision.

Worth is also highly subjective. So. You can't really say they're not "worth" $40. I'm sure they'll sell more than enough for it to make sense.

3 hours ago, aisle9 said:

You say that as though there are situations where a spare 240GB SSD isn't at least every bit as useful as empty DIMMs. I'm not anti-RGB. Hell, look at my picture over there then ask me how much I love my Hypnotoad. But there is the point of stupidity, and these are certainly pushing it.

If someone already has a 2TB SSD and don't need the extra storage, then it'd be kind of pointless, yes.

I don't see it as stupid to want your PC to look a certain way.

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knowing myself, I would probably buy this if I bought the vengeance pro rgb ram. 

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Considering the price, this is currently the most ricer thing I've ever seen for PC's.  What's next? Empty SSD/HDD cases with RGB for $80? (Although one could instead fit an RGB hub/controller with SSD/HDD mounts, as hubs aren't standard yet on most cases)

Plus I wouldn't be surprised if a chinese knockoff for these RAM slot fillers later becomes available for less than $20...

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feels overpriced.

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8 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

It's not an age thing. It's an aesthetic choice in how I want to build my PC.

No. YOU don't have any choice in how YOU build YOUR PC. RGB sucks and you should be ashamed. 

 

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Good lord... 

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At least Corsair is trying to compete with the infamous "Download more RAM" sensation!

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Smack the price down or keep it at that point when imported to norway and its not the dumbest thing ive seen that light up tbh.

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I don't get why people get so triggered over this sort of stuff. If you care about your asthetics enough to drop another 40$ to fill your empty RAM slots with dummy modules, be my guest, what do I care.

75% of what I say is sarcastic

 

So is the rest probably

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15 hours ago, RorzNZ said:

Surely no one is stupid enough to buy a bit of plastic with lights for 40 USD

And here is your answer.

15 hours ago, Kenji the Uke said:

I am legit buying this since i just bought this ram kit >w> neat

 

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