Gaming desktop PCs get plastic surgery in the RAM crisis

RAM is insanely expensive right now, and it’s likely to get more so in the coming months. In the face of hundreds of dollars needed to outfit memory for a decent gaming system, at least one supplier is turning to an older idea: dummy RAM. It’s the hardware equivalent of cosmetic surgery, a stuffed bra, or a sock down your trousers.

These modules are plastic with a bit of RGB lighting, made to fill open DIMM slots on a motherboard for purely aesthetic reasons, adding zero capability to the hardware.