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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