Update to the story of the weird RAM.

Shortly after Lennart posted this, I hit eBay "one last time" and saw
some guy selling 4x8G sticks of the exact Kingston memory out of Quebec
for $35/stick (+shipping and HST).  He had only listed them a few hours
earlier and there was already an "offer" on it.

I hit "buy it now", it arrived and has been running stable with the RAM
for the past couple days.   Thanks for the advice.  Less stuff in the
landfill.

I swear I've been watching ebay on and off for months on this.  They
might pop up and disappear very quickly.




On 2019-03-07 1:03 p.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 04:33:41PM -0500, Mike Kallies via talk wrote:
>> Here's a fun message:
>>
>> "Crucial currently does not have any compatible upgrades available for your
>> particular system"
>
> Yeah I checked there and I had never ever seen that message before.
> Wow that is weird ram.
>
> I guess the kingston ram mentioned on the link you had would be the
> safest bet.
>
>> eBay seems to run about $90/module... which, for used, shaky warranty RAM on
>> an older machine, at roughly double the price of modern non-ECC DDR4, really
>> gives me pause for thought.
>>
>> It's close though I guess and I really don't have time to mess around with
>> new machines.
>>
>> Thanks for the tips, the Crucial thing is useful for some other projects.
>

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