I definitely won't be buying an Apple anything. I can't afford
them. Dmidecode tells me the DIMMS are 4096 MB, 1600 MT/s and
made by Hynix/Hyundai. That makes it easy to figure out what I
need. Thanks to you and Todd Cole for replying. I
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.
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.
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.
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:11 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Recently I bought a Dell Optiplex 7010. Today I started looking for
some more memory (2 4GB DIMMs) to put in it. Some said it was for the
Dell while others didn't claim to be for a specific model. I did
notice that the ones claiming to be for a Dell were about twice the cost
of those that didn't and I don't want to pay the extra if I can avoid
it. I'm sending links to a couple of the choices. Can someone tell me
if there's any difference between the two? Thanks.
https://tinyurl.com/y69nepup
https://tinyurl.com/y54gjnfz
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