The store removed RAM from computers on display. This is too tasty
This practice was noticed by a user of the pcmasterrace subreddit who goes by the name accent2012. He noticed while shopping at Costco that the gaming computers on display were missing RAM modules. But why do we believe that their shortage is due to theft and not to memory shortages on the market? It’s actually very simple.
RAM theft in stores? It’s possible
There are two arguments for this. Well, during the graphics card crises caused by cryptocurrency mining, graphics cards were lost in large-scale stores such as Costco.
The second argument is dummy RAM, which looks like memory, supports backlighting and is visually indistinguishable from real memory chips, but they do not have any memory modules. In case of shortages, they can be mounted on display, making the computer look complete without a valuable element missing.
However, in the case of theft, thieves do not know whether they are dealing with a real memory or a dummy. They find out about this either after taking out the dice or only outside the store, when they have the opportunity to look at what they managed to get. Let’s hope these types of problems never affect our electronics stores. On the other hand, we already had two people who blew up a store to steal a pad.
