Sorting the RAM

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 02/11/2020 at 21:17 • Filed to: None

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Years ago I got rid of a huge box of RAM, mostly 30- and 72-pin SIMMs. As I’ve been cleaning up I’ve been finding more and more. Lots of PC100, DDR, DDR2, DDR3 and one piece of DDR4. I think it’s time to have another clearance sale, although I doubt this crap is worth much these days.

For Sweden > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 21:25

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Time to start using a RAM disk

random001 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 21:26

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Let me know what you have in DDR3, for sure.

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 21:28

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Ah the days when RAM didn’t have heat spreaders. I’m really not convinced they are necessary today, they made a lot of sense with RDRAM since not all the chips were active at a time (though the active chips were very active), but for conventional RAM it doesn’t seem like it buys you much cooling unless there are actually heat sinks attached to the spreaders.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > random001 02/11/2020 at 21:40

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Well, the DDR3 is about the only stuff I’m using these days so that stuff isn’t going anywhere. Sorry.

MM54 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 21:48

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Not all that long ago (well maybe a decade now) I spent decent money on 64mb (I think) of SIMM memory for my now-3 0-year-old laser printer. It didn’t like PDFs before that, it’s unstoppable now that I’ve maxed out the memory.

Chariotoflove > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 22:08

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I’ve got a drawer full of old RAM too. The stuff is useless. 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MM54 02/11/2020 at 22:26

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Thanks for the reminder. Now I’ll have to look into what memory my laser printer needs and see if I can toss some of this in there. I’m not sure why I would need it as the printer is fairly new (Xerox WorkCentre 6505DN multifunction color laser found for $25 about 7 years ago).

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Chariotoflove 02/11/2020 at 22:26

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Kind of like my hundreds of CDs and 35mm cameras, amirite?

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MM54 02/11/2020 at 22:36

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Crap - it looks like it’s proprietary and expensive AF. Screw it - the thing works fine...

MoCamino > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 22:44

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Have any 4GB PC3-8500 SO-DIMMs?  I have an old laptop that could use an upgrade. :)

Chariotoflove > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 22:45

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Except you can still rip the CDs to digital. That’s what I did with my collection. The 35 mm cameras are usable but only to photography buffs with a film fetish.

I still have my Polarized camera. Recently my daughter got one of these Instax cameras that were the fad. Turns out the Polaroids are the same price but are better looking and bigger. 70s tech for the win. 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MoCamino 02/11/2020 at 23:07

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Nope, sorry - none to spare. I’m using that stuff in my Mac mini and notebook(s).

jminer > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 23:19

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None of it is really worth much anymore. I tossed a lot of old ram like this on ebay for $12 and it did not sell.  So temper your expectations if you want to get much out of it.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 02/11/2020 at 23:45

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The real problem with old ram collections is it’s usually small sticks left over from stuff that got upgraded. I’ve got lots of 512mb and 1gb sticks for machines that only have 2 slots. 4GB sticks are not quite at free yet.