[GTALUG] Local source for weird RAM

[Sammy Lao]

This is an awesome story, Mike.
Sometimes, you ask and the universe provides.


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:28 AM Mike Kallies via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

>
> Update to the story of the weird RAM.
>
> Shortly after Lennart posted this, I hit eBay "one last time" and saw
> some guy selling 4x8G sticks of the exact Kingston memory out of Quebec
> for $35/stick (+shipping and HST).  He had only listed them a few hours
> earlier and there was already an "offer" on it.
>
> I hit "buy it now", it arrived and has been running stable with the RAM
> for the past couple days.   Thanks for the advice.  Less stuff in the
> landfill.
>
> I swear I've been watching ebay on and off for months on this.  They
> might pop up and disappear very quickly.
>
>
>
>
> On 2019-03-07 1:03 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 04:33:41PM -0500, Mike Kallies via talk wrote:
> >> Here's a fun message:
> >>
> >> "Crucial currently does not have any compatible upgrades available for
> your
> >> particular system"
> >
> > Yeah I checked there and I had never ever seen that message before.
> > Wow that is weird ram.
> >
> > I guess the kingston ram mentioned on the link you had would be the
> > safest bet.
> >
> >> eBay seems to run about $90/module... which, for used, shaky warranty
> RAM on
> >> an older machine, at roughly double the price of modern non-ECC DDR4,
> really
> >> gives me pause for thought.
> >>
> >> It's close though I guess and I really don't have time to mess around
> with
> >> new machines.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the tips, the Crucial thing is useful for some other
> projects.
> >
>
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