Post #2603142

2026-01-12 09:40 UTC

I've got an extra 2x 16gb ddr4. I upgraded my motherboard last year and went ahead and bought 64gh ddr5 ram (I'm so happy I did before all this ). But the ddr4 32gb is still good. I was thinking of selling it but figured it wouldn't be worth the hassle. Now I'm thinking maybe I can get back what I paid for it. And it would still be a good deal for someone else. How can I make sure it's in 100% perfect working condition. ? I don't want to sell someone something that's going bad. Was working fine before, as far as I remember.

Replies (4)

@khannie@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 10:57

> How can I make sure it's in 100% perfect working condition. ? Memtest is what you're after. You need to boot into it from a USB key because you can't reliably test ram on a running OS. There's a commercial version that has a free offering or [this open source one which I've found excellent](https://memtest.org/). I'd encourage you to sell it. In these trying times, any extra supply is helpful.

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@THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 15:52

If I had done 64 instead of 32, I'd seriously be considering selling 32GB to upgrade my GPU right now.

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@WereCat@lemmy.world 2026-01-12 09:53

i’ve got my 4x16GB DDR4 during another RAM crisis in 2019 for just 360€ which was a great deal during that time… normally I would pay well over 400€

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@REDACTED@infosec.pub 2026-01-14 06:29

I literally threw 32gb of ddr3 ram in trash half a year ago thinking it's not even worth re-selling them

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