If the shield is removed from the ram do you get standard gold finder ram pricing?

Yes. But you need to be careful to not remove chips in the process.

A standard screwdriver will remove glued or pasted shields.
For riveted ones use a small nail or bolt cutter to snip the edge of the rivets through the corners of the stick.

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Apply a little heat to the shield for stubborn adhesive.

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Every time I do the math on a sample of shielded RAM the before and after prices just aren't that far apart. My process is simple:

- Grab 20-25 sticks of shielded RAM, weigh them and multiply by shielded RAM price
- Remove all metal from those same sticks, weigh them and multiply by the gold fingered RAM price
- Compare prices

I've done this multiple times with different batches of RAM and every time prices are close enough that with my time factored in it doesn't seem worth it.

Am I bad at math? :) Am I just not working with a large enough sample size? I'd love to hear what others are doing and what kind of price differences they're seeing.

See here for info.

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