• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The RAM in demand is DDR5. The price of older RAM might be driven up somewhat because more people are buying older computers due to the price increases, but I doubt buying refurbs just to harvest the RAM would be commercially viable.

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    3 months ago

    Isn’t new ram ddr5 and ddr4 is old? I bought 3 i5-6500 machines with 16gb of ddr4 for $55/each and slapped in $30 rx480 GPs and been selling them for $150/each.

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    How much are they worth nowadays on the used market?

    I’m lucky I upgraded both my PCs to 32GB (ddr4) so I don’t really care but I’m a tiny bit curious :-)

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    3 months ago

    I’m not… but 32gb of ram is good enough for my desktop. And the 128gb in my server is working out great. My router only has 16gb but it’s working fine. I do have 96gb sitting in a server board i need to find a use for though.

  • Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I bought a 2x16gb DDR4 kit just before all hell broke loose and it was pretty hard to find any, and the places I found it were asking for way too much. First one I bought was advertised as a kit but was singles so I returned it but now I think I should have kept those too haha but no way I wouldve known. But still managed to find a kit and buy it, glad I did. Maybe I should sell the 2x4gb DDR4 kit I replaced with the new one