By an absolute coincidence, my birthday just got a bit better. A guy I know wrote on social media that he had some ram to sell for ~15 USD, 16GB DDR3 (2x8).

It just so happens that today I've decided to start using my old pc again, after a year and a half of no use, which just so happens only has 8GB of RAM DDR3 :D

when i was a kid and didn't know any better in computers, i had my mom buy me a custom made computer.

The guys that built it were either incompetent or dishonest because they put 3 sticks of ram in a dual-channel motherboard. I realized the mistake much much later.

Watch out for that, dont be tempted to use your 3 sticks because you will have lower performance as your computer will use single channel RAM because you are missing the fourth stick, (if your motherboard is dual or quad channel)

@wonwon0 thanks for the advice, but the 8GB I have now are dual stick