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If it’s any decent brand it’s lifetime warranty little questions asked.
Oh wow I didn’t know that. They’re from Crucial / Micron, also its DDR3L ECC RAM (8GB x 4) so hopefully they’ll accept. Thank you for the information!
https://www.crucial.com/company/warranty
Looks like it’s either a lifetime, or 10-year warranty depending on the model type.
Don’t know about Crucial, but Corsair was like that when I needed it a few years ago.
DDR3 was really hard to find the last time I went shopping for RAM.
I bet you can get at least another 5 more years out of that computer.
This is actually a new build I just made with a Libreboot motherboard. I’m trying to turn it into a gaming computer, it ran GTA V at 70-80FPS, all high settings, at 1440p. It was working flawlessly, and for some reason now its not I suppose due to the RAM.
But even with this RAM, in the beginning it was working just fine until yesterday I started noticing more stuttering. Vulkan shaders might be interfering, but I did enable them to process in the background and to save the cache but nope, still stuttering.
I was hoping to do a benchmark video for people tonight but I’ll have to wait until later next week.
Cool. You might check and double check the RAM timings. My machine did not like to run at 1600.
Looks like there’s actually a stuck bit in those memory values. Might be more than just an unstable clock.
I really only know enough about hardware to get by. I am working through nand2tetris though.
There’s 2233 DDR3 vs. 1164 DDR5 RAM on Galaxus (Swiss shop platform). Can’t be that hard.
The last time I was shopping for RAM was in 2020. I think the supply chain was probably all jacked up from COVID.
I paid $55 for 2ea. 8GB sticks. The price now is $24: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FAY0S08/ref=pe_861660_435879970_fxm_4_0_n_id
Hey, at least they tested it.
I remember testing ran by compiling the Linux kernel. It was so resource intensive that it tended to use every block of memory, so if I was getting weird crashes or something I would just run a kernel build and see if I needed better diagnostics.
What a creative way to test memory. nice :)
Whoops
Never buy electronics or related stuff from ebay. Never.
DDR3 is a lot cheaper on Amazon.
silicon power has had very good prices at azn for 8gb ddr3 dimms for awhile now. cheaper than what i’ve found anywhere else, even for used stuff or ebay when i’ve checked there. have several desktops here maxed-out on ram (16 or 32gb) from those.
Well that’s really not a surprise since it is old hardware. I would go for something newer as that machine is a space heater. You can pickup used mini PCs or workstations with newer CPUs in them.
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I feel like a surprising number of people struggle with the meaning of “mildly”…
Friendly reminder to run memtest the whole night long and not just a couple of hours, in case the defect is intermittent (it has happened to me).
eBay not only blacklisted me but also my home address for presenting “a risk to our eBay community” when all I have ever done was buy a USB cable. Just one. Once.
Nice to see they have their priorities straight. /s
It’s pretty silly to blacklist an address. You could just move and now the new owners can’t use eBay.
This sounds like an interesting story? Any additional details?
Nope, I was logging into my eBay account to check on when my cable would be delivered and got a big message saying my account’s been suspended. Emailed them and they said I needed to call them. Called them and they said my account’s been suspended and my home address has been blacklisted. I asked why, and they said they had nothing more to tell me.
Literally the only thing I have ever done on eBay is search for and buy one USB cable, one time.
