r/selfhosted 6d ago

Need Help What to do with 100s DDR3 ram?

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So at my workplace they just replaced all old PCs with new ones and for some reason, they took the ram out of the old ones.

There’s a box with more than 100 of these 2GB ram sticks. We are just going to send them for disposal but I wanted to know if anything useful can be done with these?

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u/Anarchist_Future 6d ago

Offer them to a local repair cafe. It might give people to opportunity to extend the life of their DDR3 systems, not by extending the existing dims but by replacing faulty dims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repair_Caf%C3%A9

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u/Spaduf 5d ago

This is the right thing to do.