How much would a 4MB module of DRAM from 1997 be worth? - Hardware & Software

Anyone bother to give a few ideas?

Probably not much. You could look at ebay though.

three dollars and seventy-six cents, give or take a tenth of a cent or two.

Most old computer parts are pretty much junk and their only value lies in being scrapped, even if you kept that ram for another 20 years, it'd still probably be worth nothing, the only old pc hardware I know of that sells for good money today are the really old Intel processors such as the 4004/4040/8008/8080.

Nothing compaired to what it used to cost.

You should probably get paid to get one, they're junk.

Maybe a few cents.

You can get some money if you have a couple hundred of these things but a single one won't get you much. You can sell [i]a lot[/i] of these for gold scrap and make quite a bit of cash (gold is over $1000 an ounce) but considering the amount of time it takes to collect that much it's rarely worth it.

[QUOTE=M2k3;18569270]You can sell [i]a lot[/i] of these for gold scrap and make quite a bit of cash (gold is over $1000 an ounce) but considering the amount of time it takes to collect that much it's rarely worth it.[/QUOTE] Lets see how much gold contacts do average DIMMs have. Let's presume that 1cm^2, isn't that quite generous. Average thickness is 2um, so we get 20 000 cubic micrometres of gold per a DIMM. Since one cubic micrometer is 0.000,000,000,001 cubic centimeters, we get 0,00002 cubic centimetres per a DIMM. So we need 50,000 DIMMS to get 1 cubic centimetre of gold. That is if every single atom of gold is scrounged. That amount of gold weighs around 20 grams, and since gold costs around 22 british pounds per gram, we get 440 pounds after removing the gold from 50,000 DIMMS. So £0,0088 per DIMM, and even if it took only 10 seconds per DIMM for the removal, you would still make just over three pounds per hour. Math says you are pretty much very right.

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4mb = 4¢

Nobody places any nostalgia value on [I]dynamic RAM,[/I] so you're stuck placing value simply on its capacity. Even if it [I]could[/I] still be used, then it would only net you a dime at most.

Well let's see, 4 gb of DDR2 from 2008 costs $90, so... Not really.

It's like 2.5 cents per MB these days...

Depends, is it a DIMM, a SIMM, or a RIMM?

Nothing [editline]9:11[/editline] But $500 to unsuspecting customers :c00l:

With the prices of current RAM as an indication, I'd say a million dollars.

Local computer guys XD [url]http://www.bargain-bytes.com/[/url] RAM Special KINGSTON 512 DDR1 RAM $68. $68 1 GIG DDR $140

1 Zimbabwe dollar

I remember in 1997 when I bought a 32 MB 72-pin FPM SIMM for like $70. Still have it and it works like a champ, but it's probably not even worth $1.

[QUOTE=windwakr;18575834]No, it's worth [b]100 TRILLION DOLLARS[/b] [img]http://butnowyouknow.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/zimbabwe_100_trillion_2009_obverse.jpg[/img] ...now worth around $0.99 Seriously, Zimbabwe's currency was fucking funny. "Lets make outrageously high amount bills that look big, but only buys you two eggs.". Good thing they dropped the Zimbabwe dollar.[/QUOTE] Give this bill to dr evil next time he demands an outrageous sum of money.

Legacy aka old technology is not worth much except for consoles, sorry to burst your bubble.

My name is pentium and I can agree it's worth nothing at all.

It's worth -10$ (USD). Seriously, 4[B]MB[/B]?

4MB from 1990's was like $500.

Why are you asking? Of course it's worth extremely little, you probably couldn't even sell it, nobody wants it.

Sell it to bargain bytes for 3$ and theyll resell it for 20$ [editline]02:36AM[/editline] I bet theres collectors that would buy it. I know a guy who has an old pc with only 16kb of memory

[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;18573110]Well let's see, 4 gb of DDR2 from 2008 costs $90, so... Not really.[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$90/4gb*4mb]Wolfram Alpha to the rescue[/url]. It's worth 9 cents. :pseudo:

Think about it in 1950 5 megabytes cost a million dollars. :wth:

Say its 4gb on ebay and sell it for 70 dollars.