Tech enthusiast finds $12,000 stack of RAM in their garage — work let them keep an old server stuffed with 1,920GB of DDR4

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However, these registered ECC DDR4 sticks will need to find a new home in a suitable Xeon, Epyc, or Threadripper system.

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A computing enthusiast has shared images of a fat stack of DDR4 RAM sticks that they found at home. VastOption8705 told other tech fans on Reddit that they “found 10k worth of RAM sitting in my garage.” We count 30 sticks of DDR4-2666, and three sticks shown separately are all 64GB modules. If they are all 64GB modules, that number of sticks would add up to 1,920GB of RAM…

Found 10k worth of ram sitting in my garage
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17 Comments Comment from the forums
  • alexw404
    I wouldn't mind grabbing 8 sticks of 64 GB ECC registered DDR4 RAM, but I prefer 3200 ones.
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  • acadia11
    I’d sell it, what’s the rest of the specs of the server?
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  • S58_is_the_goat
    I found a hard drive in a landfill with 8000 bitcoins...
    Reply
  • PEnns
    S58_is_the_goat said:
    I found a hard drive in a landfill with 8000 bitcoins...

    Thank you!!! I have been looking for my Bitcoin wallet for months!! 😊
    Reply
  • Razzi16
    That is a VERY clickbaity misleading title.
    He didn't just 'find' them there, he would have PUT them there himself.
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  • thrus
    If he sells it that will be used and from a.private seller so would not get the prices of new or even of a company selling it as when you sell as is no returns or refunds it is lower priced. Also it would be added as income since it was from work so taxable. None of us are going to turn down a few grand extra but that is all it would be at the end of the day a few thousand not 10k plus.
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  • MobileJAD
    I swear if I could somehow get 4 to 8 pieces of DDR4 ECC Reg RAM like this, I'd happily go out and get the cheapest Epyc setup possible and I'd swear that I'd find Something useful for it to run!
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  • Vicecrow
    @MobileJAD I keep my 14700 with 45w all times. all cores work 2.3 2.4ghz and can max out the rtx 5070.
    Every time I look at my setup I miss the old xeon broadwell with a $30 cpu give same power than my $240 cpu
    Only thing I don't wan't back is the energy bill
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  • vinay2070
    Why is this an headline article? If someone won a 10K lottery would you cover that too? Got tired of these fake ordered one got ten SSDs, memory etc, and then these now.
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  • PEnns
    vinay2070 said:
    Why is this an headline article? If someone won a 10K lottery would you cover that too? Got tired of these fake ordered one got ten SSDs, memory etc, and then these now.
    Think of it as happy Christmas story:

    There is hunger across the land and people can't afford the price of bread as it has gone through the roof.

    On Christmas Eve, with their families have no bread (unless they sell both kidneys), a couple of poor souls find a few slightly stale loaves of bread and they feel like they hit the bread lottery.

    For some it is very good news across the barren land.
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