DIMM came bent like a banana

[noobftw]

As the title states, i purchased two stick of DDR4 ECC RAM from Amazon, one of the sticks went in the motherboard fine, but the second stick was bent and would not go in the mem slot, so i bent it back ever so slightly and it seems to work fine. Will there be any long term damage here, should i return it? Would you? 

I don't think they have ever heard of bubblerap over at Amazon HQ, what a joke. Obviously the delivery firm have placed something on top of the parcel :/

[Haro]

picture? 

if you bent it back and there's no problem it should be fine, if it's under warranty/new you can send it back. 

[noobftw]

3 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

picture? 

if you bent it back and there's no problem it should be fine, if it's under warranty/new you can send it back. 

I should have took a pic , it was bent enough for it to not go in the slot anyhow. I have no ECC errors either. Yes it is in warranty with Amazon, only purchased yesterday, they will just send the same no protection package so not sure there is much point sending it back. 

[Moonzy]

5 minutes ago, noobftw said:

should i return it? Would you?

i would, who knows when the BGA will give after being under such stress of bending

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

5 minutes ago, noobftw said:

Would you?

The PCB was bent? I would return it if so. Long term strain on the PCB could cause damage.

[Haro]

10 hours ago, noobftw said:

it was bent enough for it to not go in the slot anyhow. I have no ECC errors either.

if it works fine then it should be all good, as i said if you could return it then do that.

[noobftw]

3 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

i would, who knows when the BGA will give after being under such stress of bending

How do you look at a piece of computer hardware and think, oh yeah, that doesn't need any bubblerap, Utter idiots. 

[WaggishOhio383]

11 minutes ago, noobftw said:

I don't think they have ever heard of bubblerap over at Amazon HQ, what a joke. Obviously the delivery firm have placed something on top of the parcel

Yeah the way Amazon ships RAM is really questionable. The RAM I ordered from them came in a small plastic container like this (probably pretty standard RAM packaging, but I've never bought any other RAM before so I don't know for sure):

 

All they did to protect it was place it in a small bubble-wrap mailer (those little yellow envelopes with the thin layer of bubble wrap on the inside). No box or anything. I'm surprised they don't have widespread complaints of RAM arriving broken.

[Origami Cactus]

5 minutes ago, WaggishOhio383 said:

I'm surprised they don't have widespread complaints of RAM arriving broken.

Computer components are way more durable than people think. You can run over a piece of ram with a car and it will probably continue working fine for some time.

All those people building their PC's with antistatic bracelets and gloves, handling the components like they were building a nuke. Whatever makes you feel safer.

 

The actual problem is with how amazon ships HDDs, and there are thousands of complaints about that, because hdds actually can't take vibration too well.

 

Anyways for the OP, if it was bent, return it, there is no way to know the long term effects from the bend, no need to risk it.

[WaggishOhio383]

6 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

Computer components are way more durable than people think. You can run over a piece of ram with a car and it will probably continue working fine for some time.

Interesting. I've never intentionally tried to break a stick of RAM myself, so I wouldn't know. I've always just assumed that it would be kind of easy to break since it looks so fragile.

[Origami Cactus]

3 minutes ago, WaggishOhio383 said:

Interesting. I've never intentionally tried to break a stick of RAM myself, so I wouldn't know. I've always just assumed that it would be kind of easy to break since it looks so fragile.

 

At 1:16, that's how linus tech tips handles their ram, and it still all works.