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GSV Three Minds in a Can <GSV@quik.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> Bitstring <4124d358$0$41795$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net>, from the
> wonderful person Andrew Ratcliffe <a.ratcliffe@ukgateway.net> said
>>"no66y©" <bounce@bounce.com> wrote in message
>>news:1092844332.48407.0@despina.uk.clara.net...
>>>
>>> "Tony Houghton" wrote in message
>>> > I've bought Kingston and Crucial RAM from eBay. If you stick to good
>>> > brands and sellers with good feedback I don't see that it's much worse
>>> > than buying from anywhere else.
>>>
>>> Agreed, I've shifted loads of harware through ebay, from sticks
>>> of memory to monitors, full systems etc.
>>
>>Me too! It's a great way of off loading old hardware to help fund those PC
>>upgrades
>
> I didn't say I wouldn't SELL through Ebay. I said I'd never buy memory
> that route. My time is worth too much to screw around with potentially
> troublesome memory errors. Besides, I'm unlikely to be buying what Y'all
> are selling, unless it fell off the back of a truck, or has some problem
> (why would anyone be Ebay-ing PC3200 or better DDR, for instance.).
I don't know why they went on about selling, unless they were trying to
say that there are plenty of people selling parts in gwo.
I was just pulling apart my HTPC today, I got the RAM for that from eBay
and it doesn't even have a brand on the sticker. I must have been
feeling extra brave or foolish that day. Works fine. It's PC133 in a
100MHZ system though, so that might be helping its stability.
One reason to sell PC3200 is if you're upgrading to DDR2 perhaps.
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