Do people need memory for old systems still?

Ian_Eb · 16 Sep 2020 at 19:02

Hi,

Do people still need old memory these days? I have a shed load of dimms lying around and am 50/50 on whether to bin them orctry and sell them!

Any thoughts on what to do with them?

Armageus · 16 Sep 2020 at 19:05

Depends what sort?

Standard sdram dimms and decent DDR1 dimms are getting rarer as a lot get destroyed for "gold recovery".

Ddr2 seems to be readily available and dirt cheap as was produced in massive amounts.

High capacity or fast DDR3 still in demand and mostly out of production so prices have spiked a little.

almoststew1990 · 16 Sep 2020 at 19:12

SDR 133 in particular seems to have gone from scrap value to worth something. Going back a bit further I couldn't find 32pin in anything bigger than 256kb per stick.

Ian_Eb · 16 Sep 2020 at 19:15

It seems to mainly be ddr or ddr2. The majority is 256 modules, but there are definitely some of the ancient ones.

Will get the boxes out and work out what there is exactly

paradigm · 16 Sep 2020 at 19:39

Job lot of ebay would shift them for a decent amount based on what I’ve bought in the past. Especially if there are some older, decent sticks.

Ian_Eb · 17 Sep 2020 at 09:12

I reckon there are about 100 or so in total. Mostly DDR1 or DDR2. I guess anything over £0 would be a bonus

spudbynight · 27 Sep 2020 at 09:24

Don't scrap them. As others have suggested, stick them up on EBAY as a job lot if you don't want the hassle.

Ian_Eb · 27 Sep 2020 at 15:39

I may well do it in smaller lots. There are a number of brands in there, so prob do it by make

Kurgen · 8 Oct 2020 at 11:23

any 4g DDR2 Sodimms? they are like rocking horse poop

turbot1984 · 8 Oct 2020 at 11:25

i have got 8 sticks of ddr3, but assume this is some other type of poop and can go in the bin?

Kurgen · 8 Oct 2020 at 11:27

ddr3 still has value, do you have access to members market?

kar · 15 Oct 2020 at 11:31

133 SDR is pretty handy for folks building 815EP systems (i.e. Tualatin P3-S builds).

Cyber-Mav · 21 Oct 2020 at 23:07

I got lots of old ram too mostly edo ram and some sdr 133 stuff. Dunno if there is any demand for it these days. If i need the space will just end up binning it one day i guess, doubt anyone wants it

kar · 22 Oct 2020 at 12:32

Cyber-Mav said:
I got lots of old ram too mostly edo ram and some sdr 133 stuff. Dunno if there is any demand for it these days. If i need the space will just end up binning it one day i guess, doubt anyone wants it

Lemme know before binning it, I'll take it off your hands!

Cyber-Mav · 22 Oct 2020 at 13:10

ok will get a photo when i dig it all up

Retro6 · 24 Oct 2021 at 07:06

Old RAM is valuable and getting harder to find. EDO RAM is rare.

Cyber-Mav · 24 Oct 2021 at 19:27

who knew i would end up in possession of some old ddr and ddr2 systems and sods law iv gone and sold my ram stash :rolleyes:

Retro6 · 24 Oct 2021 at 19:58

I have a stash of SD Ram and DDR Ram plus DDR2 Ram, a mixture of old desktop Ram and old Laptop Ram. I'll be hanging on to it for years to come some I use in my retro builds. Its funny because there is a lot of people scrapping this stuff for its gold content but by the time the gold has been extracted from all the other metals its only a few pence worth of gold but an undamaged vintage Ram stick could go for upwards of 70 quid. Who needs gold? just invest in old computer hardware.

kar · 12 Oct 2022 at 11:24

Cyber-Mav said:
who knew i would end up in possession of some old ddr and ddr2 systems and sods law iv gone and sold my ram stash

I know a guy

As a PC vintage and recent vintage collector, RAM is the trickiest piece, as it's not just a case of having sticks that will fit, but finding sticks that will fit with the given components. I've found athlons are very picky with particular ram chips, timings. The Nehalem core2s similarly. Then there's when a stick fails and you need matching sticks.

So holding on to old ram I think is a good idea I have mine rather ridiculously organised now ranging from SRAM, dip ram chips (for old vlb video cards that could be expanded!), 486 era FPM dram to ddr4.

Cyber-Mav · 12 Oct 2022 at 11:45

kar took all my stash

now its worth a fortune :mad: