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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Mike Kallies
m...@kallies.ca
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