Oddly, I find old ram (like ddr2) tends to be more expensive than new ram
(ala ddr4) simply because it's harder to find, or isn't produced as much as
current ram (supply/demand).  I've always found this true at Fry's in
particular, though I haven't bought anything there in a good 10-15+ years.

The brand of the ram is mostly irrelevant, look at who makes the actual
chips on the ram.  Samsung or hynix is what I typically find in my servers
and haven't had ram problems in years.  I avoid Crucial anymore, everything
I've bought from them dies.

I've had pretty good luck buying ram off ebay...  When I loaded up my
current box with 128gb of ram, buying ecc ddr3 server ram was stupid
expensive new, but found plenty of old Cisco UCS server memory at a real
good price, even made an offer to beat them down some more, getting 16gb
sticks for around ~$56ea.  All worked, none have failed in ~2yr or so now.
Non-server might be a bit more sketchy, but as long as it's coming from an
e-recycler or a real business, should be ok.

There was a thread a bit ago about local e-recyclers, I'd start there too
as it's probably sitting on a shelf in a pile collecting dust.

-mb

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 11:18 PM David Schwartz <newsletters@thetoolwiz.com>
wrote:

> Is there a Best Buy near you? I’d probably go there before Amazon.
>
> Also, Fry’s ships stuff.
>
> DDR2 RAM is pretty old tech now. You can probably get it really cheap on
> eBay or just ask this group and others. I’ve probably got some sitting
> around somewhere. :)
>
> -David Schwartz
>
> On Mar 30, 2019, at 11:00 PM, Jim <azanorak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a pc that uses ddr2 ram. I'm looking on Amazon because I live in
> Tennessee and the nearest Fry's is in Georgia. Can somebody tell me which
> brands of ram are ok and which ones, if any I should avoid? I don't want to
> find out it's crap after I buy it.
>
> thanks
>
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