Corsair's pricey DDR5 RAM now comes in very different packaging — and it's all about foiling RAM scammers

• Corsair has new packaging for its DDR5 RAM
• Some kits are in a sealed plastic clamshell rather than a cardboard box
• Lower-tier RAM still comes in the old box, but a security label is being added

Corsair has introduced countermeasures with its product packaging designed to foil scammers who are stealing memory sticks by swapping them out for old RAM modules and returning these fakes to retailers.

Tom's Hardware highlighted a Corsair blog post in which the memory manufacturer explains that it has changed the packaging for some of its RAM.

With Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 RAM kits with two sticks (for example, a 32GB kit which consists of a pair of 16GB modules), the company has switched to using a sealed plastic clamshell rather than a cardboard box. This is with its RGB memory, and also the plain DDR5 sticks with no fancy lights.