[NCLUG] source for cheap elderly memory?

Jeffrey D. Means meaje at meanspc.com
Fri May 21 21:18:13 MDT 2010


Refurbished RAM is tested used memory that is expected to meet the same quality demands as that it was when first tested new. 

Jeff Means
MeansPC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Wood <bwood at beww.org>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 18:34:45 
To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group<nclug at lists.nclug.org>
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] source for cheap elderly memory?

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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