1GB or bigger sticks can still get good price used market depend on brand and speed/timings. If you can score one of pci card or sata pcb for cheap enough you can build ram based ssd which while small capacity likely with that you have can make killer page/temp/scratch disks.
Christmas tree ornaments.
Keychain is classic.. although..... it will put holes in ur pocket because the pcb is quite sharp, and even i you file it down.. the ic chips are still sharp.. if you file the ic, it'll look ****ty.
Maybe I will do that.
I feel bad taking hard drives apart for the magnets, but they are great magnets. How does that metal mounting plate manage to stop the magnetism completely from the other side?
Maybe I will do that.
I feel bad taking hard drives apart for the magnets, but they are great magnets. How does that metal mounting plate manage to stop the magnetism completely from the other side?
10 years ago I had an old 540MB hard drive I tore apart to show a newbi what was inside. I thought sh'e like the shine platter but instead she was disappointed and not impressed. I was so shattered by her lack of interest I don't think about poaching the magnet. Great magnets are cool!
Maybe I will do that.
I feel bad taking hard drives apart for the magnets, but they are great magnets. How does that metal mounting plate manage to stop the magnetism completely from the other side?
10 years ago I had an old 540MB hard drive I tore apart to show a newbi what was inside. I thought sh'e like the shine platter but instead she was disappointed and not impressed. I was so shattered by her lack of interest I don't think about poaching the magnet. Great magnets are cool!
I have several boxes full of old HDDs, including many SCSI, that I salvaged from a couple of dozen old computers I threw out when I moved a year ago.
Probably close to 100 HDDs.
I am gradually disassembling them to salvage the magnets.
This is off topic, sorry.
I have several boxes full of old HDDs, and am gradually disassembling them to salvage the magnets.
WOW! They are THAT good?!?!?!
Now I'm really hating myself hahahahaha
If you collected enough DIMMs you could use them as tiles for tiling a wall, or something. Mosaic, maybe?
If you collected enough DIMMs you could use them as tiles for tiling a wall, or something. Mosaic, maybe?
Oooh... Get a ****load of DIMMs, CPUs, GPUs, and mobos from scrap, glue them down to a desktop, and pour a layer of clear epoxy resin over the top, giving yourself a desk that looks covered in components, yet is smooth to the touch. You could even backlight it...
and it looked pretty cool in a weird neck bearded, mullet-wearing kinda way.....
and it looked pretty cool in a weird neck bearded, mullet-wearing kinda way.....
Just what are you trying to say?
Ever try to get a 200mb drive for a 386-20 that works properly? It's pretty hard to find these days because of all the compatibility issues back in the early days of computing.
I have several boxes full of old HDDs, and am gradually disassembling them to salvage the magnets.
WOW! They are THAT good?!?!?!
Now I'm really hating myself hahahahaha
This kid is being held up by 20 HDD magnets:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/63tR1Mw.jpg)Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/iDhoxxG.jpg)
I still have a set of Corsair DDR3 1333 that uses the DHX cooler. Doubt anyone would want it though, so I just tucked it away just in case.What capacity is it?
What capacity is it?
I only have 4GB of RAM, in my PC. It seems plenty for what I do.What capacity is it?
4 GB and 9-9-9-24, that's why I doubt anyone would need it in these days and age.
Maybe I will do that.
I feel bad taking hard drives apart for the magnets, but they are great magnets. How does that metal mounting plate manage to stop the magnetism completely from the other side?
I am sure that drive magnets would be much higher quality.
I am sure that drive magnets would be much higher quality.
The magnets themselves are fantastic, but they are epoxied onto non-magnetic mounting plates and it is all but impossible to get them off without messing up the protective layer.
If anybody knows how to do it, I would love to know how.
ps - about 1cm x 3cm x 3mm thick
I usually clamp one end of the mounting plate in a vise, and bend the other end with a sturdy pair of pliers.
I get at least 50% clean detachment rate like that.
I have at least a dozen sticks of RAM that are probably perfectly good but obsolete.
Talking desktop DDR and DDR2, probably older sticks, too, in increments of less than 1GB.
I would rather not just give them away or throw them away, but they seem to be hardly worth selling and shipping.
Is anybody building older retro systems, like all you guys waxing dreamily over Windows 98?
PM me and I can look through this fat baggie in my work space.
I usually clamp one end of the mounting plate in a vise, and bend the other end with a sturdy pair of pliers.
I get at least 50% clean detachment rate like that.
That is exactly what I do. But then, there are bare patches of exposed magnet and razor-sharp edges of chrome (or whatever it is) lifting up.
...buildings for little computer cities.I'd love to see a pic of this! Sounds very cool!
...buildings for little computer cities.I'd love to see a pic of this! Sounds very cool!
DDR and DDR2 below 1GB per stick are approximately useless to most people and therefore have no value outside of artistic creations such as above. 1GB for DDR can get money still, as can 2GB for DDR2, but definitely not a lot.I still have use for DDR and DDR2 even in the smaller varieties. Some of our older thin clients need them. Although not rare yet, they still command a premium in relation to the modern day memory cost/mb.
I like the idea of a keychain. I have some old laptop ram, I think I may make one now :thumb:I could probably use that ram. :(