Memory and processors are where most of the value in retired IT actually sits — so they're our hero supply. Maxicom buys server RAM (DDR4/DDR5 RDIMM and LRDIMM) and CPUs (Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC) across Singapore and Malaysia, loose or still in the servers, working or pulled. With Penang's electronics-manufacturing corridor and the region's data-centre density feeding constant component turnover, this is a market we buy in heavily — and we grade to the live market and pay in SGD.
A shredder-only recycler treats a memory module as a few cents of metal. On the secondary market that same registered DDR5 module can be worth many times more, and a current-generation Xeon or EPYC processor far more again. The difference is grading — identifying part numbers, testing yield, matching lots to demand — which most recyclers can't do, so they don't try. We're built around exactly that work, which is why memory and CPUs are our favourite call and why we pay the sharpest numbers on them.
Whether it arrives as loose trays from a repair operation, populated boards from a decommission, or whole servers we strip and grade for you, the outcome is the same: you get paid for what's inside, in SGD.
Part number, capacity, generation and yield set the price. A sample of what we actively buy:
Registered and load-reduced DDR5 and DDR4 in every capacity from 16GB to 256GB, from Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and the OEM-branded lines. Data-centre pulls from Singapore refresh cycles and the Johor–Iskandar build-out are our steadiest memory supply, and matched same-spec trays price sharpest. We buy by part number and graded yield, never by weight.
1st through 5th Generation Xeon Scalable — Skylake, Cascade Lake, Ice Lake, Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids — with Gold and Platinum SKUs in the strongest demand. High-core processors pulled from decommissioned racks hold real value long after the server around them is retired. Send the SKU list or a photo of the heat-spreader lids and we grade against live demand.
Naples, Rome, Milan and Genoa EPYC, especially the high-core 7003 and 9004-series parts, sit in deep secondary demand as regional workloads consolidate. We buy them socketed or loose, tested or untested, and price on core count, generation and yield. EPYC pulls from cloud and colocation refreshes across Singapore and Malaysia are welcome in volume.
Xeon W, Intel Core i7/i9 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper from retired workstation and design fleets carry value in volume. Media, engineering, EDA and research estates across the region turn these over on refresh, and we take the pulled processors alongside the workstation memory. Trays of matched parts price best.
GPU boards and accelerator modules carrying high-bandwidth memory, and populated boards pulled from AI and HPC systems, sit at the top of the memory market. Where these come attached to accelerators our AI & GPU desk handles them; loose, we grade on part number and condition. Demand here moves weekly, so quotes are current-dated.
DDR3 ECC and older registered memory still clears in volume to repair, remanufacturing and design-continuity buyers who keep older platforms alive. We place it rather than crush it for metal. Send counts and part numbers and we price on live demand, not a fixed scrap rate.
Untested trays, mixed pulls and fault-flagged modules are normal supply, not a problem — we price them on expected yield after grading. Repair operations, ITADs and recyclers across Singapore and Malaysia send us exactly this. Tell us what you know about the source and condition and we build it into the number.
Persistent-memory modules — Intel Optane DCPMM and NVDIMM — surface in retired database and in-memory-analytics estates and have their own specialist buyers. They are easy to overlook and easy to undervalue, so we call them out: if you have them, list them, because they can move the total materially.
There is no fixed rate: a used module or processor is worth what the live secondary market will pay for that exact part, in that condition and quantity, on the day. A single 64GB DDR5 RDIMM, a matched tray of 32GB DDR4, a high-core Xeon Platinum and an EPYC Genoa each clear at very different levels — and those levels move week to week with supply and demand. What sets the price is the part number, capacity, generation, tested yield and how matched the lot is; the weight is irrelevant.
That is why we price from a list, not a chart. Send the part numbers, capacities and quantities — or clear photos of the labels — tell us whether they have been tested, and we return a written figure in SGD against current demand, usually with the highest-value lines called out so you can see exactly where the value sits.
South-East Asia is a component region as much as a consumer one. Penang and the wider Malaysian corridor host semiconductor assembly, test and electronics manufacturing; Singapore's data centres and enterprise estates turn over memory and processors continuously; and repair, refurbishment and ITAD operators across both markets accumulate pulled stock. All of it feeds the same secondary market we sell into — so we buy memory and CPUs from manufacturers, data-centre operators, recyclers and traders alike, and settle promptly in SGD.
| Shredder recycler | Marketplace listing | Maxicom | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What they pay | Metal weight | Whatever sells, slowly | Graded value in SGD, now |
| Loose modules | Crushed | Piece by piece | Bought by the tray |
| Faulty / untested | Scrap | Hard to move | Priced on expected yield |
| Volume lots | Same low rate | You handle each sale | One offer for the lot |
| Effort for you | Low value | High | Send a list, we do the rest |
Memory and processors hold no user data, so grading is straightforward. Where memory arrives inside whole servers, any drives in those units are sanitised to NIST 800-88 / IEEE 2883 with a certificate before anything moves, on a documented chain of custody — so a memory-and-CPU sale never becomes a data-security gap.
Every data-bearing drive is sanitised to NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 1 (HDD) and IEEE 2883-2022 (SSD/NVMe), with a certificate of destruction, on a documented chain of custody. Drives that can't be wiped are physically destroyed through a vetted partner. Certified destruction is what makes buyback safe under Singapore's PDPA and Malaysia's PDPA — so it's included in the deal, not billed as an extra.
Offices and corporates clearing space · IT teams running a refresh · data centres decommissioning across Singapore and the Johor/Iskandar corridor · banks, healthcare and government needing certified data destruction · schools and universities · and resellers, distributors, ITADs and MSPs clearing surplus and client stock. One unit or a warehouse — the process is the same, and the paperwork always holds up.
Send part numbers, quantities or photos and we'll come back with a written SGD offer.
Get my quoteMaxicom Singapore Pte Ltd is an independent IT buyback and recycling company based at 51 Goldhill Plaza, Singapore, serving businesses across Singapore and Malaysia. We recover the value inside retired business IT, destroy data to NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883, and route reusable hardware back into service — paying businesses for equipment that other recyclers charge to take.
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