Had a fun, profitable and knowledge increasing day.

I have been getting ready to send off my RAM and will probably do so in the next day or so. After reading a discussion on here this morning, I decided to look through it and sort out everything 512 or larger. I had a small handfull. I got ahold of a kid that does repairs and sells refurbs and went and met with him. He actually told me anything 128 or higher he wanted so I grabbed my 6 1/2 pounds and went to see him.

I was not looking to make a killing as I was going to get schooled a little bit on RAM. I told him I wanted a buck a stick or trade an older or burned up model and I would be happy. We ended up with $1 regular stick, 50 cents for laptop sized and $2 for server memory.

We spent almost 2 hours testing RAM and in the process used 5 different machines to test the various types. We needed a 6th type, but he could not find it.

We swapped a good bit of RAM and I ended up letting him have about a pound and a quarter for what ended up being $40 and a couple motherboards.

We were both very happy with the deal. I had a little extra cash in my pocket and he upgraded his entire supply of RAM and doubled it for a great price.

I get home and wifey needs to go somewhere. I asked her to let me check e-mails and such real quick. Sure glad I did. 10 minutes sooner a lady had posted on Craig's list wanting to get rid of 3 computers for free. I called her and they were mine. We went and grabbed them along with a few other items she had all for free and we were off again.



Wifey had to stop at work to sign something and while she was in there I jumped out and tore into all of the computers just to get a glimsp.

I found these bad boys. Gskill 1 gig DDR Looks like a 40 dollar bill on E-bay maybe.


The system fired up fine when I got home, but the darned thing has UBUNTU running on it.

Now I need to school myself more on the RAM types and be able to test them all. Gained a little knowledge on it here today and it will be my little project for the time being. I will share all that I learn.

Thanks for reading.

Do I seriously need one of these things? seemed a TAD bit over priced for testing RAM.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Triad-TurboC...item5d31f6760c

How about this software disk? Looks like it might be the key, but still need a bunch of different machines to test all of the types.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MEMTEST86-AL...item27b57bfde7

Anyone know why the DDR sells for more than the DDR2?

Why thank you very much! I will end up doing just that.

Originally Posted by parrothead

Anyone know why the DDR sells for more than the DDR2?

Hi Parrothead,
I have not seen the memory prices vary too much between DDR and DDR2 on ebay. Maybe the brand and speed are playing a factor.

Thanks for sharing the story. I really enjoy hearing about how folks discover new goldmines through Craigslist, advertising, other internet forums etc. Tracking down a new lead and the discovery really gives quite an adrenaline rush -- the journey is the reward kind of thing. I learned a great deal about RAM and RAM testing from this post as well.

thanks for the info. Makes sense.