Published
August 21, 2026
The $2.4 million G.Skill settlement covered DDR-4 and DDR-5 desktop memory advertised at speeds the modules reach only after the buyer turns on an XMP or EXPO profile. Payments to approved claimants started landing on August 18, 2026 — and the reported amounts track about $4.92 for every qualifying module claimed.
What Happened
Money from the G.Skill memory speed class action settlement began reaching claimants on August 18, 2026. The case, Hurd et al. v. G.Skill International Enterprise Co., Ltd. et al., No. 2:22-cv-00685-SSS-MAR in the Central District of California, alleged that G.Skill advertised DDR-4 and DDR-5 desktop memory at rated speeds the modules deliver only after the buyer enables an XMP or EXPO overclocking profile in the BIOS. G.Skill denied the allegations and the settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing. The claim window closed on April 7, 2026, and trade coverage of the case reports that the court granted final approval on June 9, 2026.What is new is the distribution itself. Claimants started posting confirmations within hours of the first batch going out, which is how the amounts became public before any administrator report did.
Status
Payments in Progress
Distribution began August 18, 2026.
Reported Payment
About $4.92 per module
Claimant-reported, not an official figure · roughly $5–$30 total depending on modules claimed
Payment Methods
Zelle · PayPal · Venmo · Prepaid card
By the election made on the claim form; checks arrive later by mail.
Can I Claim?
No — claims closed April 7, 2026
The filing window cannot be reopened.
How Much Are People Reporting?
The amounts claimants describe are consistent enough that the underlying rate is easy to reverse-engineer. Reported payments cluster at about $4.92 for each qualifying module claimed: roughly $9.84 for two, $14.76 for three, $19.68 for four and $24.60 for five. Five was the cap a household could claim without producing receipts, which is why $24.60 shows up so often. Amounts above that appear on claims that documented more than five products.Two cautions on that number. First, it is not official — the settlement administrator has not published a per-product rate, and OCA has not reviewed a distribution report confirming one. It is a pattern derived from what claimants say they received, so treat it as an indication of scale rather than a promise. Second, a handful of reported figures do not fit the pattern cleanly, which is what you would expect from amounts recalled from memory or from claims that were partially approved.
If your payment arrived and you want to compare it against what others received, the Open Class Actions Facebook group is where readers are posting their amounts and payment methods.
Why the Payments Are This Small
The size of the payment is a function of how the settlement was structured, not a sign that anything went wrong in the distribution. The $2,400,000 fund is non-reversionary, so none of it returns to G.Skill. But it is also fixed, and it pays settlement administration, notice costs, court-approved attorneys' fees and service awards before the remainder is divided pro rata among every approved claim.The claim form's design pushes in the same direction. Because no receipts were required for up to five modules per household, filing was easy and participation was high. A fixed fund divided among a large claimant pool produces a small individual share — the same arithmetic that produced modest checks in the related Corsair and Team Group memory settlements.
There is a non-cash half to the deal as well. G.Skill agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to present rated speeds as "up to" values across packaging, its own product pages and reseller specifications, and to disclose that reaching those speeds requires enabling XMP or EXPO and depends on the rest of the system, including the motherboard and CPU. Existing inventory can be sold through.
How the Money Is Arriving
Payments are issued by Angeion Group, the court-appointed settlement administrator, using the payment method each claimant chose on the claim form. Claimants report receiving funds through Zelle, PayPal, Venmo and prepaid card. Those digital transfers arrive at the email address or mobile number entered on the form rather than at a mailing address.Paper checks travel by mail and land later than the digital transfers. Under the settlement terms, checks left uncashed after 180 days are directed to a court-approved cy pres recipient, currently Khan Academy, rather than reverting to G.Skill.
Filed a Claim but Have Not Been Paid?
Distribution runs in batches rather than all at once, so a payment that has not shown up yet is not necessarily a rejected claim. Before assuming a problem, check:• The email address and mobile number entered on the claim form. Zelle, PayPal and Venmo payments route to one of those.
• The spam and promotions folders of that email account. Administrator payment notices are routinely filtered there.
• Which payment method was selected. A requested check arrives well after the digital transfers.
• Whether the claim covered qualifying desktop modules and was submitted by April 7, 2026. Laptop SODIMM memory was never part of the class.
If none of that explains it, the official settlement website carries the administrator's contact form and any notices about the distribution. OCA is not the settlement administrator, cannot look up an individual claim, and has no role in issuing payments. Full case detail — eligibility, the class period, the key dates and the approval history — is on our G.Skill $2.4M settlement page.
The Memory Case That Is Still Open
All three consumer DRAM speed settlements have now run their course. G.Skill is paying out, the Team Group DRAM settlement closed to claims on July 7, 2026, and the Corsair DDR-4/DDR-5 settlement closed on October 28, 2025.The memory case still in front of the courts is about what DRAM costs rather than how it was labeled. A proposed class action alleges that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron — the manufacturers behind the large majority of the world's DRAM — restricted supply while prices climbed through the AI data-center buildout. Those allegations are unproven, no class has been certified, and there is nothing to claim. It is, however, the case that answers the question most claimants seem to be asking as a $20 payment lands against a memory kit that now costs several times what it did: why RAM got so expensive.
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Sources
• Official settlement website: G.Skill DRAM Settlement.com• Class notice, claim form instructions and settlement agreement posted by the settlement administrator
• Case caption and docket: Hurd et al. v. G.Skill International Enterprise Co., Ltd. et al., No. 2:22-cv-00685-SSS-MAR (C.D. Cal.)
• Contemporaneous trade coverage of the August 2026 distribution and the reported per-claimant amounts, including Tom's Hardware and TechSpot. The June 9, 2026 final approval date and the August 18, 2026 distribution start come from that reporting; OCA has not reviewed the order itself.
• Payment amounts and methods reported publicly by claimants
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Settlement Amount
$2,400,000
Administrator
Angeion Group
Case Title
Hurd et al. v. G.Skill International Enterprise Co., Ltd. et al.
Case Number
2:22-cv-00685-SSS-MAR
Court
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
Eastern Division (Riverside)
Claim Deadline
April 7, 2026
Closed. New claims are not accepted.
Payments Began
August 18, 2026
Zelle, PayPal, Venmo or prepaid card, by claim-form election.
Status
Payments in Progress
Official Website
G.Skill DRAM Settlement.com
