Does this means all the old memory sticks I have lying around are finally worth something?
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Around Black Friday I purchased a Ryzen 7 based mini-PC with an Oculink port on sale for $373 which came with 32GB of 5600MHZ DDR5. Around the same time, I purchased an Oculink Dock for $50 along with a power supply for $30 and a barely used GPU with 12GB of VRAM on eBay for $200 to run medium sized Open-source AI models. When I saw the price of DDR5 rapidly escalating in early December I picked up a 64GB 5600MHZ kit for $220. Then there were of course 2 latest generation Samsung 1TB NVMEs for $60 a piece. I also bought 1 touch screen and 2 normal 1900x1200 portable monitors to use with MSFS 2024. These three monitors came to a little less than $200 in total. So, I have a more than a $1000 into it. But I was able to use the 32GB of DDR5 in my wife's laptop.
The 96GB of 5600MHZ DR5 that I have recently installed is now worth as much as I spent on the entire project, and I am still left with 2 8GB sticks of 5600MHZ DDR5 out of the laptop. They are now worth about as much as the $220 I paid for 64GB of name brand DDR5 in December. So yes, depending on what types of RAM you have lying around... they might be worth something more than just a few bucks.