WTF?! There's been another story of a lucky person finding some PC hardware in an unexpected place. But rather than coming from a Goodwill store, as is so often the case, a Redditor discovered 64GB of DDR4 at their local dump. Thanks to the memory crisis, it's worth about $500.
A Redditor and possible Beatles fan, going by the NSFW name of ringosbigf**kingnose, posted about their discovery on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit.
The user writes that they regularly check the electronics recycling container at their local dump for older hardware from the 486 and early Pentium eras.
It seems that the redditor occasionally finds more modern hardware, such as AIO desktops and components. He was especially lucky recently, discovering a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU complete with a Cooler Master cooler, an Asus motherboard, and a Drobo five-bay NAS. They also came across a Samsung monitor and a 5.25-inch floppy drive. But the most significant find was the 64GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 memory.
Major score at the dump today!!!
by u/ringosbigfuckingnose in pcmasterrace
The hardware will be used to upgrade the redditor's current setup that consists of 16GB of DDR4-2133 and a Core i7-7700. He also has a GTX 1070 OC, which he's hanging onto for now.
Because of the well-documented memory crisis stemming from AI datacenters securing all the DRAM supplies, memory modules, even DDR4, carry a premium price right now. Newegg is selling two used Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB sticks for $500.
It would probably be a good idea for the finder to sell the DRAM and put the money towards a new graphics card, though GPUs are also experiencing higher prices at the minute. He said he intends to hang on to Nvidia's Pascal card until it starts appearing on the minimum specs lists for games he "cares about."
Before you race down to the local dump in the hope of finding some similar hardware, there are a few caveats to remember. While many people throw away unwanted electronics because they don't have the energy to sell them or room to keep them, most e-waste is simply broken goods. Moreover, a lot of dumps have rules and restrictions when it comes to taking items away.
We've seen several stories about people finding bargain PC hardware recently, usually in Goodwill. There was the $30 system that hid an RTX 3080 Ti and a Ryzen 7, and someone else found a Radeon 5700 XT for $4.99. Another Redditor said they paid $600 for a PC from a pawn shop that had a Zotac 4070 Ti Super, a Core i9-14900KS, and 64 GB (32GB x 2) of T-Force Delta RGB DDR5 6000 memory installed.