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RAM Not Straight

mtty34
By mtty34
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It's fine. It looks like they're supposed to look like that.

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Should be fine.

Specs: CPU - Intel i7 8700K @ 5GHz | GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming | Motherboard - ASUS Strix Z370-G WIFI AC | RAM - XPG Gammix DDR4-3000MHz 32GB (2x16GB) | Main Drive - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB M.2 | Other Drives - 7TB/3 Drives | CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i Pro | Case - Fractal Design Define C Mini TG | Power Supply - EVGA G3 850W

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9 minutes ago, mtty34 said:

Just received these dimms from amazon; are they functional if not straight? 

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9 minutes ago, Lurick said:

That's how DDR4 ram is supposed to look and designed to look. It's completely functional

 

5 minutes ago, Cyndre1033 said:

Supposed to look like that. It is present in every DDR4 module. 

 

5 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

It's fine. It looks like they're supposed to look like that.

You learn something new everyday... Why would they do that?

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7 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

Do you happen to know if there's a functional purpose?  A quick search doesn't turn up much info.

 

8 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

You learn something new everyday... Why would they do that?

 

The only thing I could find was possibly to lower the insertion force during install, but the source on Wikipedia didn't lead anywhere so I can't say if there's more to that.

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On Wikipedia it says to lower the insertion force.

14 minutes ago, Factory OC said:

 

 

 

You learn something new everyday... Why would they do that?

 

13 minutes ago, done12many2 said:

 

Do you happen to know if there's a functional purpose?  A quick search doesn't turn up much info.

 

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11 hours ago, Lurick said:

 

 

The only thing I could find was possibly to lower the insertion force during install, but the source on Wikipedia didn't lead anywhere so I can't say if there's more to that.

 

11 hours ago, Abyss Gaming said:

On Wikipedia it says to lower the insertion force.

 

 

That makes sense. It's also very interesting.

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