Gaming desktop PCs get plastic surgery in the RAM crisis
By Michael Crider
Published on March 16, 2026.
Memory supplier V-Color is selling "1+1" memory kits, which are designed to provide affordable and flexible access to gaming desktop PCs without adding any capability to the hardware. The kits, with one stick of 16GB or 24GB DDR5 plus a dummy “filler” module, are intended to fill empty DIMM slots on a motherboard for aesthetic reasons. The company claims that single-module DDR5 configurations paired with AMD's AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D have shown more than 30% stronger gaming performance compared to older dual-channel-based gaming builds. However, this could increase as the industry shifts production towards production for far-more-profitable data centers over regular consumers and PC manufacturers.
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