<div dir="ltr"><div>Memory hasn't been as finicky in years than I found it 10-20 years or more now, most seem fairly tolerant as long as you match up specs.</div><div><br></div><div>If using windoze, install cpu-z and just match the specs, speed, unbuffered, ddr-class, etc. Likewise using dmidecode under linux, just match spec what is there now. If using a mac, just pay whatever overpriced ram apple wants to sell you because you or your sponsor can obviously afford it. Probably a better way under mac, I'm sure google knows most sticks are probably compatible there too realistically.</div><div><br></div><div>I do miss when there used to be the technology swap meets over in Mesa here to find old/dated hardware for stuff like this, I think that all moved to Craigslist, now Letgo and others, always ebay if nothing else. I always buy used ram, particularly when talking the more pricey large ECC server stuff, really haven't had complaints personally doing so. Last time I put 128gb in my desktop, I did so for around a grand from ebay getting old server dimms from a retired cisco ucs box, same memory, which from dell would have been some $8k of absurdity.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-mb</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:11 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Recently I bought a Dell Optiplex 7010. Today I started looking for <br>
some more memory (2 4GB DIMMs) to put in it. Some said it was for the <br>
Dell while others didn't claim to be for a specific model. I did <br>
notice that the ones claiming to be for a Dell were about twice the cost <br>
of those that didn't and I don't want to pay the extra if I can avoid <br>
it. I'm sending links to a couple of the choices. Can someone tell me <br>
if there's any difference between the two? Thanks.<br>
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