A few years ago I mistakenly bought some used ECC DDR3, 256GB (8x32GB) of the stuff for $110. Given the current memory shortage, is it time to dust it off and let someone else put it to use somehow? Or is DDR3 just too old to be worth it? I already have 128GB of DDR4 in my server and don’t really need more for myself, but I have considered getting a second server to play with that I can stick these in.
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Glue two sticks together: DDR6
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What is this, some sort of Seussian droid?
Too old, unfortunately. You might be able to find a buyer but the prices won’t have changed much, if at all
My main gaming system still uses DDR3. Haven’t seen a need to upgrade the RAM though, it’s been still at 16gb. Plays Minecraft and Space Engineers fine though.
I recently bought some DDR3-1866 (cheap) because I deferred a new PC build for yet another year and instead chose to max out the RAM slots on my LGA1150 socket PC build from late 2014.
By the way, if anyone has an old GTX1080 they want to unload for pennies, lemme know.
If you had 24 of these I’d be interested in buying, 32GB ECC DDR3 DIMMs are hard to come by and I need more RAM
If you can find a ddr3 server with no ram you could put it in there. But do you really need a 10-15 year old server? DDR4 servers are getting cheap and are WAY better than those end game DDR3 machines in every way. Like even our base R640 blows away our older R620s.
Yeah, buying an old server just to put this RAM to use would be a waste.
It isn’t necessarily a 10-15yo server. Intel was releasing CPUs with DDR3 support as late as 2017-2018 (Goldmont/Denverton/Apollo Lake arch), and many of those embedded CPUs went into low power servers and mini PCs.
Sure, but those won’t take registered ECC RAM. Only full fat server CPUs will.
Some desktop ones do. I think the motherboard also needs to support it.
Registered and ECC are separate details. Some desktop boards accept ECC (not very many Intel), but none accept registered. I’m unclear on what the OP has since they only mentioned ECC and I didn’t Google the models.
DDR3 is too old.
ur 2 old
I’m still using DDR3 in some of my systems, so there’s probably someone out there who could make use of it – finding them may be a challenge though.
I still sit on much older stuff because of that reason. Tried years ago to use local sources like Craigslist, but no one is looking for older, they want new. Short of finding an older system for repurposing, there’s no market for it.
It’s worth it to sell it. What type is it exactly?
Yeah that’s what I’ve seen too, probably worth moving it on, at cost if nothing else.
This model, as in my screenshot: https://memory.net/product/m393b4g70dm0-yh9-samsung-1x-32gb-ddr3-1333-rdimm-pc3l-10600r-quad-rank-x4-module/
It looks like PC3L-10600R 32gb sells for around $25 each. I would list it as $49.99 for two $99.99 for four or 199.99 for all 8. Turn on promotion for 2%. Don’t put on offers until it’s been sitting for awhile.
Sell it to an AI datacenter. I hear they’re buying up all the RAM.
