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Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Over 500 Used DIMMs?

Posted by samzenpus on from the dimm-house dept.

An anonymous reader writes "My company is pursuing a RAM upgrade, resulting in 500+ used DDR3 4GB DIMMs. What could this be used for? Are there any cheap products on the market which can take a huge number of DIMMs? Is there a worthy cause we should donate the gear to?"

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  1. Worthy Cause: Education by BabaChazz · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know where OP is from, but in BC, Canada, there is a group called Computers For Schools BC, who are in the (government-funded) business of taking old computers and buffing them up for use in the school system. I suspect they would be pleased to receive something as close to current as 4GB DDR3... and they do enough volume that 500 of them would likely be used up in a month.

  2. Donate through National Cristina Foundation by Andy+Prough · · Score: 4, Informative

    They'll help your used chips find good homes in school computers and so forth: http://www.cristina.org/aboutus.html

  3. I work at a school... by theedgeofoblivious · · Score: 4, Informative

    I work at a school for special-needs teenagers, and we could probably use about 200 of them if they were available.

  4. Re:PCs for Kids by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 5, Informative

    Donate to http://www.computersforclassrooms.org/

    They would end up going to Computers used in classrooms.

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  5. DDR3 Donation by hardburlyboogerman · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can always donate them to a local Computers For Kids project.Believe me,any and all kinds of hardware is always needed.I ought to know.I've run such a program for a good 20 years

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  6. Donate them!! by EmagGeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a charity local to me that builds PCs for the disadvantaged:

    https://sites.google.com/site/carolinafreepc/

    Purpose
            To provide PCs with educational programs to low income
            families and children at no cost.

    Goals

            To help kids become knowledgeable about computers

            To interest kids in engineering and technology

            To encourage kids to stay in school and graduate

  7. give them to employees by XaXXon · · Score: 4, Informative

    let the employees take home a few if they have a use for them. Make people happy and it won't cost anything or at least not much depending on what you would otherwise do with them.