[NCLUG] source for cheap elderly memory?
Brian Wood
bwood at beww.org
Thu May 20 18:34:45 MDT 2010
On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:24:57 pm S. Luke Jones wrote:
> We have recently retired two XP machines and I'd like to repurpose them
> using Linux.
>
> They both have 512 MB of RAM and I'd like to double that for each of them.
> One is a Dell Dimension 3000 and uses PC2700/3200 DDR SDRAM DIMM. The
> other is an eMachine T5048, using PC3200 DDR SDRAM DIMM.
>
> The problem is that the cost of new memory is prohibitive. (The places I've
> checked run about $25-30 each for 2 512MB modules, and $60-plus-shipping
> is too much to upgrade a six year old machine, when you can usually get a
> brand new machine from the Dell Outlet for a little more than $300.)
>
> So. Can anyone recommend a source to get old, used RAM on the cheap?
Depends on your definition of "cheap" I guess, but have a look here:
http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=RAM
Much of this is "New Old Stock", I'm not sure about the "refurbished", as I
don't know precisely how one would go about "refurbishing" RAM.
I assume that "refurbished" means "used".
But I've never got a bad stick from those folks.
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