A Reddit user reported a successful discovery in the basement of an office building in Norway. While working in the building, he noticed an electronic waste recycling bin containing sealed memory modules. With management’s permission, the author took the decommissioned equipment for himself. The components were left behind by the organization, which had been using them for powerful workstations.

The discarded components included four 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 5950X flagship processors, one Intel processor, an 850W Corsair power supply, and twelve DDR4 RAM modules. The trash also included a sealed, factory-installed Kingston HyperX Fury 32GB kit, four Crucial Ballistix Sport LT Red sticks, two white Crucial Ballistix sticks, and four Corsair Vengeance LPX modules. The four processors are valued at approximately $1500, while high-speed DDR4 memory kits with 32GB or higher cost between $200 and $300 each, bringing the total market value of the recovered memory to over $1200. Including the Corsair power supply, the total value of the shipment reaches almost $3000.

A home test bench test confirmed the AMD Ryzen processors and RAM modules were fully functional. The author noted that he recently spent his own money on building a new system, so the recovered processors and memory modules will be used to upgrade his girlfriend’s computer and for home server projects.

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