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.
Depends. The price of the same DDR4 kit I bought earlier this year is now 4x what it was, new.
Dude, even DDR3 sodimm has doubled in price in the last few months
DDR5 is the latest tech, but it affects everything. Even SO-DIMM DDR4 have had a price hike.
Stop giving them ideas.
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.
Is this happening? Probably
I don’t think so. ddr5 is in demand, prices for older ddr4 seems unaffected. No way someone buys a refurb PC to sell the ddr4 kit and have a useless PC.
Ddr4 went up a little bit to ride the inflation wave, but not nearly as much as ddr5
Supply and demand… We have tons of ddr4 on the secondary market - if they try to spike retail too much it won’t sell at all.
When I bought my first PC, RAM was $1,000 per MB.
Abort, Retry, Fail?
My first version of that was, Abort, Retry, Initialize?
I learned VERY quickly that Initialize is basically NEVER the correct option
You were there, too?
On a Compaq SLT/286
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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 :-)
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
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.
I’ve been trying to sell sticks of DDR3 cheap and no one wants it. 15600 Samsung.
I am not.
