Published
February 10, 2026
Updated
August 21, 2026
This settlement resolves claims that G.Skill advertised DDR-4 and DDR-5 desktop memory at speeds the modules only reach after the buyer enables an XMP or EXPO overclocking profile in the BIOS. Claims closed on April 7, 2026, and payments to approved claimants began arriving on August 18, 2026 — in amounts that track roughly $4.92 for each qualifying module claimed.
Current Status
Claims are closed and payments are going out. The claim window ended April 7, 2026, which was also the deadline to opt out or object. Trade coverage of the case reports that the court granted final approval on June 9, 2026 and that the settlement administrator began issuing payments on August 18, 2026. Claimants are publicly reporting amounts of roughly $5 to $30, delivered by Zelle, PayPal, Venmo or prepaid card depending on the payment method chosen on the claim form. G.Skill denied the allegations throughout, and the settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing.If you filed and nothing has arrived, see What If I Have Not Been Paid? below. New claims cannot be filed — the deadline has passed. The two sister DRAM speed cases are also finished: 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.
Status
Payments in Progress
Distribution began August 18, 2026.
Claim Deadline
April 7, 2026
Closed. New claims are not accepted.
Estimated Payout
About $4.92 per module
Claimant-reported, not an official figure · roughly $5–$30 total depending on how many modules were claimed · 5 per household was the no-receipt cap
Proof Required
No
No receipts for up to 5 products; proof could be requested for claims beyond that.
How Much Are People Getting?
The payments are small, and the arithmetic behind them is easy to follow. Claimants who have posted their amounts describe figures that line up almost exactly with a per-module rate of about $4.92 — roughly $9.84 for two qualifying modules, $14.76 for three, $19.68 for four and $24.60 for five, five being the cap a household could claim without producing receipts. Larger amounts appear on claims that documented more than five products.That per-module figure is not an official number. The 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 guaranteed amount.
The reason the individual payments are modest is the structure of the deal, not anything unusual about this case. The $2,400,000 fund is non-reversionary, so none of it goes back to G.Skill, but it pays settlement administration, notice costs, court-approved attorneys' fees and service awards before the remainder is divided pro rata among every approved claim. A fixed fund split across a large claimant pool produces a small per-person share. The claim also required no receipts for up to five modules, which keeps participation high and the individual share low.
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When Will My Payment Arrive?
Distribution began August 18, 2026. Payments are issued by Angeion Group, the court-appointed settlement administrator, using the payment method each claimant selected on the claim form.Digital payments — Zelle, PayPal, Venmo and prepaid card — generally land first, and claimants began reporting them within days of the distribution start. They arrive at the email address or mobile number entered on the claim form. That is a common reason a payment looks missing: the notification goes to a contact point the claimant no longer checks.
Paper checks travel by mail and take longer. 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.
What If I Have Not Been Paid?
A payment that has not shown up does not necessarily mean the claim failed. Distribution runs in batches rather than all at once, so a claim approved later in the process pays later. Before assuming something went wrong, check:• The email address and mobile number entered on the claim form. Zelle, PayPal and Venmo payments route to one of those, not to a mailing address.
• The spam and promotions folders of that email account. Administrator payment notices are routinely filtered there.
• Which payment method was selected. A requested check travels by mail and lands 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 is where to raise it — it 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.
What the Case Was About
The class action alleged that G.Skill deceptively advertised and labeled the speed of its DDR-4 and DDR-5 desktop memory. According to the plaintiffs, speeds marketed on the box and on product pages — 3200 MHz, 3600 MHz, 6000 MHz and the like — were presented as what the module delivers once installed.The complaint alleged those speeds were only reachable after the buyer enabled an XMP (Extreme Memory Profile) or EXPO overclocking profile in the computer's BIOS, a step many consumers would not know to take. Without it, the module runs at the JEDEC baseline: 2133 MHz for DDR-4 or 4800 MHz for DDR-5.
G.Skill denied the allegations, denied violating any law, and maintained that its products were appropriately labeled and advertised at all times and performed as represented. The settlement is not an admission of liability, and no court found G.Skill liable.
Who Was Covered?
A person was in the settlement class if all three of the following were true:• They purchased a G.Skill DDR-4 desktop memory product with a rated speed over 2133 MHz, or a G.Skill DDR-5 desktop memory product with a rated speed over 4800 MHz.
• They lived in the United States at the time of purchase.
• The purchase was made between January 31, 2018 and January 7, 2026.
Laptop memory (SODIMM) was not included — the class covered desktop DIMMs only.
The qualifying factor was the rated speed, not the product line. That swept in most of G.Skill's consumer range, including Trident Z (Royal, Neo, Z5 and Z5 RGB), Ripjaws V, Flare X and Flare X5, Aegis and Sniper X, along with any other desktop DDR-4 above 2133 MHz or DDR-5 above 4800 MHz.
What the Settlement Pays
G.Skill agreed to fund a $2,400,000 settlement fund. That fund covers class member payments as well as settlement administration, notice costs, court-approved attorneys' fees, and service awards.Each class member who filed a valid claim is entitled to a pro rata share calculated per product, based on the number of qualifying products claimed and the total number of valid claims received. Because the denominator was not known until claims were processed, no per-product dollar figure was announced — the description here is the calculation method, not an estimate of what a claimant will receive.
Claims covered up to five products per household without proof of purchase. The notice provided that payments would be issued by check or electronic payment approximately 45 days after final approval and the resolution of any appeals, and that checks expire 180 days after issuance.
What Proof Was Required?
No documentation was needed to claim up to five products, and no administrator-issued claim ID gated the claim form, which is why this page is marked Proof Required: No. A claimant who filed for more than five qualifying products could be asked to provide proof of purchase for the claims beyond the first five.What G.Skill Agreed to Change
Alongside the cash fund, the settlement requires G.Skill to use commercially reasonable efforts to change how it presents memory speeds going forward:• Rated speeds are to be presented as "up to" values on packaging, website product pages and reseller specifications.
• Products are to carry the disclaimer: "Requires overclocking/BIOS adjustments. Maximum speed and performance depend on system components, including motherboard and CPU."
Corsair and Team Group agreed to comparable labeling changes in their own settlements, so the disclosure practice is shifting across the consumer DRAM market rather than at a single brand.
Key Dates
• Class period: January 31, 2018 through January 7, 2026• Claim deadline: April 7, 2026
• Exclusion (opt-out) deadline: April 7, 2026
• Objection deadline: April 7, 2026
• Class counsel fee petition: April 28, 2026
• Final approval hearing: June 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM PT, Riverside, California
• Final approval granted: June 9, 2026, according to trade coverage of the case
• Payments began: August 18, 2026
What Happens Next?
Distribution is the last substantive step, and it is underway. Payments began August 18, 2026 and continue in batches, so a claimant who has not been paid yet may simply be in a later batch. Nothing further is required from a class member who filed on time. Checks left uncashed for 180 days go to the court-approved cy pres recipient. The official settlement website remains where any further notices about the distribution are posted.Related DRAM and PC Memory Class Actions
The G.Skill case is one of three consumer DRAM class actions challenging how memory manufacturers advertised speed. Filing in one never affected eligibility in the others, but all three filing windows have now closed. A fourth memory case — over what DRAM costs rather than how it was labeled — is still live:• Team Group DRAM settlement — a $1.1 million fund for buyers of Team Group and T-Force DDR-3, DDR-4 or DDR-5 memory (desktop and laptop) purchased in the U.S. between May 3, 2020 and April 8, 2026, with no receipts needed for up to five modules per household. Griffin v. Team Group, No. 2:24-cv-03681 (C.D. Cal.). Claims closed July 7, 2026.
• Corsair DDR-4 / DDR-5 desktop memory speed settlement — a $5.5 million fund for Corsair desktop DDR-4 (over 2133 MHz) and DDR-5 (over 4800 MHz) buyers between January 14, 2018 and July 2, 2025. Final approval was granted January 8, 2026; claims closed October 28, 2025.
• Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron DRAM price-fixing lawsuit — the case behind the question most G.Skill claimants are actually asking right now, which is why a replacement kit costs several times what the original did. The complaint alleges the three manufacturers behind most of the world's DRAM restricted supply while prices climbed. The allegations are unproven, no class has been certified, and there is nothing to claim — but unlike the three speed-labeling settlements, it is still open.
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.), including the order granting preliminary approval and setting the June 5, 2026 final approval hearing
• 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 on this page comes from that reporting; OCA has not reviewed the order itself.
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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)
Eligible Products
G.Skill desktop DDR-4 rated above 2133 MHz and desktop DDR-5 rated above 4800 MHz
Laptop SODIMM modules excluded.
Class Period
January 31, 2018 – January 7, 2026
Claim Deadline
April 7, 2026
Final Approval Hearing
June 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM PT
Riverside, California. Trade coverage reports approval was granted June 9, 2026.
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
