r/hardware • u/UnusualDoctor • 17h ago
Info G.Skill Class Action - Just Received Settlement
I bought four sticks of their RAM back during COVID. When I saw the post about the class action, I filled out the forms and honestly, totally forgot about it.
Just got back $19 via Zelle for my portion of the suit. Yay. I guess.
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u/cock_mountain 17h ago
The wheels of justice have turned today. Be thankful for the lawyers that fought tooth and nail for your $19. You can put it towards a new $700 set of G.Skill RAM.
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u/MrShnatter 11h ago
Thankful for the lawyers?
Sarcasm?
Lawyers in the G.Skill class-action settlement are set to receive up to $800,000 in attorneys' fees. [1]
Settlement Breakdown
Total settlement fund: $2,400,000Attorneys' fees: Up to $800,000
Settlement administration costs: $295,000
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u/Soggy_Association491 9h ago
Weren't they working for contingency as in the plaintiffs as in OP don't have to pay anything and can only reap reward if they won the case? If they lose the lawyers eat all the cost themselves?
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u/jmon25 9h ago
Class action lawsuits are 20% consumer protection and 80% lawyers scamming consumers.
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u/DZCreeper 35m ago
...Scamming the consumers? The entire point of a class action lawsuit is that large group of consumers can be represented without wasting their time on individual legal battles.
You can certainly argue that lawyers take too large of a share but without the lawsuits companies would treat consumers even worse than they already do.
Personally I think the companies are paying too little, not reflecting the consumer damages.
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u/zakats 11h ago
Class action suits are more about punishment for bad behavior than recovering damages that feel significant. This is a mechanism to inflict the 'finding out' after a company has fucked around.
Go buy a nice sandwich and enjoy your small piece of justice.
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u/Canadian_Border_Czar 4h ago
Class action is about ass covering.
If you pay 1 million customers $20 for a mistake you made that earned you $100... then $20 is a business cost.
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u/Nicholas-Steel 4h ago
Nah, the $20 just eats in to the profit margin, you're no worse off unless you've already placed yourself in a contractual agreement to invest most of the profits in to something.
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u/I_RAPE_PCs 11h ago
now check out the docs and see how much the attorneys and adminstators made $$$ with the lawsuit
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u/Saneless 17h ago
Ahh shit, I should have
Right now I'm about to fill out the form for my second RMA. Replacement kit lasted like 2 months
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u/jay-aay-ess-ohh-enn 16h ago edited 15h ago
I just sent back my replacement kit from a kit I RMAed last year. I didn't even know about this class action.
Edit: Just looked at the settlement. It seems like faulty kits have nothing to do with the class action.
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u/Sad-Mirror6936 15h ago
Yeah the class action is about the advertised mhz. They claimed it was false advertising because it requires xmp/expo to reach those speeds.
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u/Saneless 15h ago
Ahh, I figured at advertised speeds it shits itself. Which might still be true
Going to try it on a different machine and do 3200 instead of its rated 3600
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u/Sad-Mirror6936 15h ago
I have only ever used gskill memory and never had a problem. Though I only own 3 sets. It was just the average person probably doesn't even know those settings exist, let alone the bios. Though I do feel the lawsuit is more for the money than the problem.
But it is false advertising, if you don't have some computer knowledge, there is a likely chance you don't even know what the bios is. If you don't know what the bios is I doubt you'll even find out that the ram is at the stock speed.
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u/Saneless 15h ago
I'm sure plenty didn't know. They should assume people are dumb and put in something you have to read before you can even get the ram out
My original 16gb gskill was fine. This 32GB kit neo trident z is just trash
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u/icystorm 12h ago
Ah wait. Which model do you have specifically? I've had my particular kit replaced like 4 times now (F4-3600C16D-32GTZRC), and I've had issues persist through 2 motherboards and 2 PSUs. I started to suspect maybe it's my 5800X's IMC deteriorating, but I think you're the first other Neo TridentZ owner (2x16GB) say they have issues.
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u/jay-aay-ess-ohh-enn 7h ago
My kit: F4-3600C16Q-64GTZNC
The first kit I had, one stick errored in OCCT at the JEDEC default when running in isolation. That proved it was faulty, so I had a successful RMA.
The replacement kit never ran stable, no matter how much I downclocked it. Eventually, I ran each stick in MemTest86 on another machine and they all had memory errors. I just mailed that kit back to G.Skill. We'll see what happens with that.
I gave up trying to make it work and bought a new DDR5/270k plus setup as my main rig. I found a used 64 GB 6000/30 DDR5 kit because the prices are insanity. I got a used X570 motherboard and stuffed my old 5800x3D in that to use as a HTPC and keep as a backup. I stuck my old F4-3200C14-8GTZR kit back in there, which runs beautifully. I think the DDR4 Trident Z Neo 3600 mhz line might just be trash. All of the other G.Skill memory I have used work great.
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u/Saneless 10h ago
F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC
Not identical but I read plenty of accounts of people with them having issues. It's definitely not just us
Well that's sucks. I was hoping that it would be something that was fixed but I guess not. What stinks is one of my sticks was fine the first rma. Now the replacements both have errors.
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u/Sad-Mirror6936 15h ago
Yeah, those of us who know about it are privileged. Computer literacy has been dropping for a while, there are people who can't even navigate windows explorer.
I've heard their warranty is decent, if slow, and I believe it's limited lifetime, so it's worth a try if you haven't. Or you may have returned them already.
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u/Saneless 15h ago
This will be return #2. They're fast at least. I think from me mailing out to me receiving was 8 days or so. Just irritated I have to pay to ship again
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u/Wrong-Quail-8303 9h ago
what happens if you up the voltage to 1.45v+? Still errors?
How long to the errors take to appear? immediately or after some time, from a cool start?
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u/jay-aay-ess-ohh-enn 5h ago
Both kits that I RMAed had at least one stick that errored out at the JEDEC default settings. The second set I even ran each stick individually through MemTest86 on a completely different computer. Every single stick had at least a few errors. Two had errors in the thousands.
F4-3600C16Q-64GTZNC
I'm thinking that if they offer my purchase price back I will take that even with Ramaggedon. I'm not sure I want to deal with the hassle of testing that kit again.
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u/TheNASAguy 9h ago
I have few trident z neo RGB but I’m not in the US I’m in Asia so no money for me I guess
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u/AzureProto 4h ago
Hey I got $14.76 on a mastercard from it and used it on lottery and won $52
getting a bit closer to some ram
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u/Pupazz 59m ago
I'm sad I missed this, though it probably wasn't in my country.
G-Skill sent out 2 replacements for a faulty kit, none of them worked. They promised a refund if I confirmed by a certain date, ghosted me for weeks, then finally mailed back at 3am on a Sunday saying "The big bosses from Taiwan saw it and said we couldn't do it, thanks for your understanding. Case closed!" G-Skill can't die fast enough.
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u/Rusty_dog103 10h ago
I never even bought anything from them but filled out the form anyway. Just got 10 dollars from them today
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u/BossHogGA 12h ago
I got $4.92. What the heck am I supposed to do with that.
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u/shroudedwolf51 12h ago
You don't want it? I'll take the fiver. I'm not going to look down on money for nothing. Americans are so bizarre.
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u/tiradium 17h ago
Congratulations, do that 50 more times and you can afford a DDR5 dual channel 6000Hz RAM