Submitted 21 hours ago by WereCat@lemmy.world to [deleted]
1.) Find a kit you want to buy 2.) Go buy it 3.) Change your mind and decide not to at the last moment 4.) You’ve just saved at least $500+ depending on the kit you were after 5.) Repeat until you save so much that money won’t be an issue anymore 6.) Now buy it with some of the money you’ve just saved
(bonus tip: works for real estate as well)
I’ve got an extra 2x 16gb ddr4. I upgraded my motherboard last year and went ahead and bought ddr4 ram. But the 32gb is still good. I was thinking of selling it but figured it wouldn’t be worth the hassle. Now I’m thinking maybe I can get back what I paid for it.
And still would be a good deal for someone else.
How can I make sure it’s in 100% perfect working condition. ?
I don’t want to sell someone garbage.
How can I make sure it’s in 100% perfect working condition. ?
Memtest is what you’re after. You need to boot into it from a USB key because you can’t reliably test ram on a running OS.
There’s a commercial version that has a free offering or this open source one which I’ve found excellent.
I’d encourage you to sell it. In these trying times, any extra supply is helpful.
This is super helpful, thank you. I’m going to do that and then I can screen shot the report and let people know I tested it and what it said.
Someone told me I could just put one of the 16gb at a time, in my current motherboard. Start up the PC. If it’s good it will start , if not then it won’t. But I wasn’t sure if that would really be an indicator of condition or not. I mean if completely junk it would. But otherwise not really.
Yeah I was just going to sit on it.
I’m convinced now.
Best to get it to someone who needs it for gaming or software needs.
It kinda does take a lot of time to properly test ram, especially larger capacities. So OP would need to plan accordingly, because the pc won’t be usable during the test.
I think you can do a memtest with Windows included tool that doesn’t require to install anything. Type memory check or something in the Start menu and the system should require a restart to boot on the memtest.
But obviously setting up a dedicated thumb drive can be useful too.
If I had done 64 instead of 32, I’d seriously be considering selling 32GB to upgrade my GPU right now.
i’ve got my 4x16GB DDR4 during another RAM crisis in 2019 for just 360€ which was a great deal during that time… normally I would pay well over 400€
Extra: still use ddr3 and watch the world burn, but slower
How big is the difference between DDR5 and DDR3?
Quite significant in theory, DDR3 maxes out at about 2000 MT/s (mega transfer per seconds) while DDR5 can go above 8000 MT/s, so about 3x-4x. I don’t know if this metric already includes the capability of DDR ram to access multiple data in a clock cycle, but I think it does. If it doesn’t, tje difference is even higher.
Of course in practice the difference is not as remarkable, but still noticeable. Still, DDR3 is perfectly usable with a decent processor (light gaming and professional software), my main righ is a 4th generation i7 and I have no intention in upgrading for the foreseeable future.
Hijacking a Best Buy truck seems like it would be faster if you’re willing to overlook the illegality.
I find baseball bats work too
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
The only DDR
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
I want to play DDR and Beat Saber at the same time so I greatly increase my chances of having a heart attack and dying.
WereCat@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I mean… there are people who finished Dark Souls with a steering wheel. Anything is possible if you’re crazy enough