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Testing is more difficult these days because manufacturers now have to make changes to their product to accommodate component shortages and availability. Used to be that once the product was put to market, nobody concerned themselves with such a thing. That big name power supply with Japanese capacitors that used to be Panasonic, but now are Sanyo which is a Japanese company but the caps are now made in China, is it still the same?

Many businesses have to follow a prescribed disposal procedure because of depreciation and tax write-off rules. Mostly business PCs are low end performers with limited or no expandability and should be sent straight to the recycle pile. I used to love salvaging old PCs and parts, but it's too depressing for me as my 8yo i5 still blows them away. I hauled seven of these to the recycler yesterday out of my dad's basement with no regret. As for hard drives, drill a hole through the platters, shattering them and guaranteeing data destruction, and put a cheap SSD in there instead. That will make daily use of these low end machines bearable. Destroying HDs in this way is well advised since they are pretty much worthless anyway.

A video covering dual-channel RAM upgrade options that explores that mixing RAM sticks can actually be viable, would be beneficial for many. This is an upgrade path that many may be overlooking because of misinformation. In my old PC, I had two 4GB sticks of DDR3, and I was looking to upgrade to 16GB, and there are tons of other forum posts out there saying "don't mix different RAM sticks" and "only pairs sold together will work together properly." But with the insane price of RAM these days, it certainly wasn't a cost effective upgrade for the questionable benefit. I managed to find on Kijiji for $30 a pair of G.Skill RAM 2GB sticks that were identical in every way to my 4GB sticks, except for the capacity. I installed them and everything works in dual channel mode without errors at all. I now have 12GB of RAM. My kids' PC has two 4GB sticks of DDR3 and although they are from different manufacturers, they too work just fine in dual channel mode without errors.