rambus memoy question

Got a question regarding memory sticks. Its a lower price for rambus because of the metal heat sink. Looking at it, its only rivets. Take a sec to drill out and remove the heatsinks. Would this get it back to normal memory price?

Also the tin memory whats the going rate? Where it has silver fingers?

should be able to pry off with a flat head screw driver. Check with your personell buyer as different buyers may have different answers

i think they usually discount the silver fingers a bit. If you do Ebay, you might do better with it there

Originally Posted by BarrenRealms007

We will go $14.00/lb on mixed memory. And the silver fingers are more than likely tin not silver.

Is there any way to determine the silver from the tin, without a test kit?

I think that all the silver colored fingers on RAM is tin not silver. At least that is what my researching has concluded.

When I worked as a plating technician making metal connector pins, we plated with tin/ lead, nickel, gold and platnium. the actual connector tips were useally gold (because it was cheaper then platnium then) and platnium. Not doubting that it is tin, but usually they make connecting contacters of harder material that resist corrosion than tin. But, I am useally wrong too, just ask my wife...