Just did a quick audit of how many 1GB sticks of memory I have in my office

[HeroOfPellinor]

That's 21 still sealed. And those are just the desktop memory, I also have four so-dimm.

I had been buying them with abandon whenever I could snag them for under $10 each. Some nice stuff in there too, dominators and OCZ GoldRev2 and a ton of that HP Micron stuff.

 

[wiredspider]

So what else could you have bought for ~$200?

 

[SlickSnake]

You are my hero? :roll:

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: wiredspider
So what else could you have bought for ~$200?

A one way ticket to Denver?

 

[QED]

Hmmm... sounds like you are exactly halfway to understanding the meaning of life, the universe, and our very existence.

 

[SlickSnake]

Originally posted by: QED
Hmmm... sounds like you are exactly halfway to understanding the meaning of life, the universe, and our very existence.

Yea, 42, that's pretty deep, man. :light:

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: wiredspider
So what else could you have bought for ~$200?

what's that, like 10 euros?

 

[GenHoth]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
That's 21 still sealed. And those are just the desktop memory, I also have four so-dimm.

I had been buying them with abandon whenever I could snag them for under $10 each. Some nice stuff in there too, dominators and OCZ GoldRev2 and a ton of that HP Micron stuff.

FS/T?

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: wiredspider
So what else could you have bought for ~$200?

what's that, like 10 euros?

or maybe 20 Canadian dollars, har har.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

nice job investing in a depreciating asset.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
nice job investing in a depreciating asset.

its only depreciating NOW. Give like two years and the prices will go back up. It's like trying to go buy DDR or SDRAM now. There is such production of it, that it costs a crazy amount of money (for what it is). And in two years, you think everyone is going to be moved on to DDR3 or whatever is the uber-cheap at the time? No way. As long as they stay sealed, it should pay him back 2 or 3 fold in time.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
nice job investing in a depreciating asset.

its only depreciating NOW. Give like two years and the prices will go back up. It's like trying to go buy DDR or SDRAM now. There is such production of it, that it costs a crazy amount of money (for what it is). And in two years, you think everyone is going to be moved on to DDR3 or whatever is the uber-cheap at the time? No way. As long as they stay sealed, it should pay him back 2 or 3 fold in time.

riiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhht. He should stock up on HD DVD's too.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
nice job investing in a depreciating asset.

its only depreciating NOW. Give like two years and the prices will go back up. It's like trying to go buy DDR or SDRAM now. There is such production of it, that it costs a crazy amount of money (for what it is). And in two years, you think everyone is going to be moved on to DDR3 or whatever is the uber-cheap at the time? No way. As long as they stay sealed, it should pay him back 2 or 3 fold in time.

riiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhht. He should stock up on HD DVD's too.

no, being an HDDVD owner, it's a depreciating investment. go ahead, tell me what DDR1 on newegg goes for, compared to DDR2

 

[Homerboy]

LOL

 

[IceBergSLiM]

1 gb mem sticks are not rare. Nor will they ever be rare in comparison to the demand.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
nice job investing in a depreciating asset.

its only depreciating NOW. Give like two years and the prices will go back up. It's like trying to go buy DDR or SDRAM now. There is such production of it, that it costs a crazy amount of money (for what it is). And in two years, you think everyone is going to be moved on to DDR3 or whatever is the uber-cheap at the time? No way. As long as they stay sealed, it should pay him back 2 or 3 fold in time.

riiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhht. He should stock up on HD DVD's too.

Actually, he could be right. I recently sold 2GB of used DDR400 for $70 shipped and 1GB of DDR2-667 for $15 shipped. In 2 years he might be able to get $700 for those 21 sticks of RAM. Then again he might not.

 

[Canai]

If all else fails, make keychains.

 

[Juno]

ship them to me.

 

[meltdown75]

can i have just one?

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: kalrith

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
nice job investing in a depreciating asset.

its only depreciating NOW. Give like two years and the prices will go back up. It's like trying to go buy DDR or SDRAM now. There is such production of it, that it costs a crazy amount of money (for what it is). And in two years, you think everyone is going to be moved on to DDR3 or whatever is the uber-cheap at the time? No way. As long as they stay sealed, it should pay him back 2 or 3 fold in time.

riiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhht. He should stock up on HD DVD's too.

Actually, he could be right. I recently sold 2GB of used DDR400 for $70 shipped and 1GB of DDR2-667 for $15 shipped. In 2 years he might be able to get $700 for those 21 sticks of RAM. Then again he might not.

you know what......for some reason I thought he was talking about thumb drives not RAM. Rare ram will probably have value for sustaining legacy systems years down the road.