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by not-a-llm 18 days ago
where is this cheap Chinese RAM? I'd like to buy some
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officeplant 18 days ago
Ebay and Amazon are flooded with it. Especially if you are looking for anything prior to DDR5. DDR2 and DDR3 are especially flooded with weird brands you've never heard of before.

Unfortunately its not so cheap anymore as everyone ramped prices up of course.

Last year I could still get 32GB of DDR4 for under $60 from chinese brands.

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not-a-llm 18 days ago
DDR3 is from 10 years ago. DDR2 is from 15.
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officeplant 18 days ago
And?

I just upgraded my 2008 Thinkpad R61i to 8GB of DDR2 a few months ago while I was also upgrading to a core2duo.

DDR2 and DDR3 are still in active use by SBC manufacturers.

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dansquizsoft 17 days ago
> I just upgraded my 2008 Thinkpad R61i to 8GB of DDR2 a few months ago while I was also upgrading to a core2duo

Uhhh… ok… good for you I guess…

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officeplant 15 days ago
Some of us keep the worthwhile trash alive forever. This laptop is gonna be twenty years old soon and it's too comfortable of a machine to be tossed to ewaste.
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