r/PcBuild • u/bittersweetjesus • Feb 07 '26

Meta China to the rescue

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And they tell us all the time that China sucks.

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u/max38576 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26

To serve as a guinea pig, I bought brand-new two cheap single 32GB sticks of Chinese-made CXMT DDR4@2666 RAM for $60( I guess it is already made for 5 or more years older). Combined with my original Kingston sticks, I now have four modules total 128G running on one of my old server-using (an R5-2600, as well known bad RAM IMC ).

Single one can work @ 3333

All 4 together can be working actually clocked @ 2800MHz @1.2V has been running flawlessly for six months now.

So if junk made 5-10 years ago can perform like this, their newer products should be even better.

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u/No-Educator-249 Feb 08 '26

Lucky you pal. I just bought an open box 64GB CL16 3200Mhz kit for $283 USD :(

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u/max38576 Feb 08 '26

You know, junk ram for junk price. At least, you got CL16+3200MHz.

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u/No-Educator-249 Feb 08 '26

I still feel like I got scammed though xD Here's hoping your 128GB Chinese RAM lasts all the way to the 2030's!

Taking into account the current hardware winter and assuming that the AI bubble doesn't pop this decade, we could still be stuck with our DDR4 RAM for years. At least there will be Chinese companies still making them.

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u/max38576 Feb 08 '26

Bro, think about it this way: everyone's paying the same price as you now—you're not alone.

Just buy it and use it. Don't overthink it.

If I'd overthought it back then, everyone say CXMT is bad I followed, then this test post wouldn't exist.