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A community dedicated to buying Canadian products.

Une communauté dédiée à l'achat de produits Canadiens.

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1. Posts must be related to buying Canadian-made goods and / or using Canadian-owned services

2. Absolutely no bigotry will be tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.

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Tolerated: AI-generated post summaries

4. Only content in French and English is permitted

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1. Les poteaux doivent être en lien avec l'achat de produits et / ou de services opérés par des canadiens

2. Aucune bigoterie ne sera tolérée. Ça comprend, mais sans se limiter à, le racisme, le sexisme, l’homophobie, la transphobie, etc.

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submitted 1 week ago by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca

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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?

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

Edit:
found it
@GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca
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

[–] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week 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.