I hope avoiding Amazon fits this community rules?

I need a few bits to resurrect an old PC. My Amazon cart is $68 with shipping - we’re going to cancel Prime, but my wife is still working on downloading all her photos. Best I can do elsewhere is near double this PLUS shipping from 3 different suppliers and 2 of the suppliers are on eBay, which is also a US company.

I moved to Canada a few years ago from Australia where I had pccasegear, scorptec and others. It seems Canadians have become reliant on the US market and Amazon and we now have no competitive local retailers for this type of thing?

  • [email protected]@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    11 hours ago

    DDR3? mate let me dig around my old stash and drawers, I should have some somewhere unless it got lost.

    Edit:
    found it
    @[email protected]
    It’s not 32GB so idk how useful it’s gonna be to you, but I got a 4x4GB kit of Corsair DDR3 1600
    part number CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9

    Also got a Samsung 860 Evo 250GB
    part number MZ-76E250

    • Great Blue HeronOPEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Thanks for trying! But, I really need 32GB - I want to upgrade a machine that currently has 4x4GB. I know it seems wrong and I’ve thought about doing a whole new motherboard, CPU and RAM but that very quickly gets to several hundreds of dollars and puts more stuff in the ewaste bin. I’m confident I can easily get a few more years from it with $50(ish) worth of RAM.

      The SSD is for another project - repurposing the motherboard and CPU that used to do the job of the 16GB one above :-) I’ll probably go for a new SSD because they do wear out eventually and someone else pointed me one at a Canadian supplier for $20.