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Title: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Athlon on July 18, 2003, 01:14:15 PM

My vote would be for Crucial..

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Brian on July 18, 2003, 01:18:32 PM

My favorit brand would be... anything that works. I'm not picky, as long as it works and it fits I'm fine. Ask me what RAM I hate and there's a few (due to not sticking 100% to the formfactors). :-D

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: LP on July 18, 2003, 02:01:56 PM

Hmm... mine would be the ultra flat ones, nice, small and fast. Got one in now: 64Mb! -rulez

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: bon on July 18, 2003, 02:02:17 PM

Corsair and Crucial definately...

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: SilvrDrgn on July 18, 2003, 02:10:13 PM

Crucial.  They don't test just a few samples from every batch of chips they produce ... they test EVERY chip!  Very good prices, too.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: bloodline on July 18, 2003, 02:13:48 PM

Fave Brand? Simple, the cheapest.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: on July 18, 2003, 02:17:32 PM

Kingston or Crucial.

Kingston is in both my Pegasos and PC's and working without a problem...

Title: My favo(u)rite
Post by: DamienMcKenna on July 18, 2003, 02:31:00 PM

.. is the product range "Works" from the little-known company "Onethat".

:)

Damien

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: duesi on July 18, 2003, 02:32:56 PM

Kingston, Nanya

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: amigamad on July 18, 2003, 02:34:48 PM

At the moment any cheap memory that works is fine .Although when my mate steven gets his new stock in he should have some ddr memory which has 10 year warranty against faults i think it is dane q something never heard of it myself . :-)

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Godfather on July 18, 2003, 02:43:30 PM

My fave is Leff....brown... :-D

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: KennyR on July 18, 2003, 03:12:42 PM

I'm with Wayne. Kingston or Crucial. Crucial might not technically be a manufacturer, but they sell the best stuff - none of that rebranded cheap crap the manufacturers are afraid to put their real name on.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: jeffimix on July 18, 2003, 03:53:33 PM

GVP Simms, the 16 Megabyte kind.... couldn't resist. My G-Force is gonna need one. Just one.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: amiga1260 on July 18, 2003, 03:56:58 PM

Siemens, I have two of them 64 mb.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: GadgetMaster on July 18, 2003, 05:26:08 PM

Corsair ..... my current brand (very good)
Crucial ....... memory from my old computer (worked a treat even overclocked)

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Snuden on July 18, 2003, 07:02:41 PM

Battering.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: meerschaum on July 18, 2003, 08:01:00 PM

I would say

best

Mushkin
Crucial
Siemens
Corsair

moderate

samsung
kingston

bad

nanya
misc(all the cheap crap brands combined)

and thats about it...

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: N7VQM on July 18, 2003, 08:04:06 PM

I don't have a favorite to like but I have a favorite to hate:   Centon.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: takemehomegrandma on July 18, 2003, 08:31:49 PM

In my newest PC (=my game machine :-)) I used 2x Corsair 256Mb DDR PC2700 CAS2 Low Latency. Works very well! :-) It's built on the Abit NF7-S rev 2.0 motherboard (with the nForce2 chipset).

In my Pegasos I use 1x 512MB registered Samsung module. Works very well too! :-)

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: legion on July 18, 2003, 08:50:37 PM

GeIL "golden dragon" series in my new peecee.. fast and stable.  

Mushkin and Corsair are close seconds...

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: iamaboringperson on July 18, 2003, 10:08:51 PM

Favorite brand of RAM??

instead of just listing the brands, i think it would be more usefull to list the reasons why

the for and against for each brand, good or bad,,,

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: GadgetMaster on July 18, 2003, 10:36:39 PM

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boringperson wrote:
Favorite brand of RAM??

instead of just listing the brands, i think it would be more usefull to list the reasons why

the for and against for each brand, good or bad,,,

Well I can tell you the reasons I chose these brands:

Crucial = stable, lifetime warranty
Corsair = stable, fastest available at time of purchase, Lifetime Warranty

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Wolfe on July 18, 2003, 10:37:36 PM

Kingston or Crucial - the solid choice.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Cyberus on July 19, 2003, 12:30:08 AM

@ Godfather

Leffe is good, but Rochefort is better.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Gaidheal on July 19, 2003, 12:43:37 AM

Whatever is going at the right price and works at the speed I want.  I buy the cheapest, check it out and if it doesn't hold up I exchange.  Nice and simple.  Kingston are fine, but my friend paid three times what I did for an identical stick (aside from Kingston rebranding).  Same deal, for the most part with Crucial et al. as far as I can tell.  Personally never had any real trouble, even with Winbond and the like.  In fact I can't remember the last time I had memory fail me.  I did have to exchange a stick of 512Mb DDR 400 when it was pretty much "the new thing" because it would not work a CL2 with the rest of the timings I wanted.  But that was a painless exchange for a stick made by the same brand as the other 512Mb DDR 400 stick I had in the same system.  So aside from a little time and some diesel, nothing was lost.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: jn91 on July 19, 2003, 02:40:18 AM

Mine is Crucial/Micron.

I've had excellent results with their products.

- Excellent web site and ordering. Occasionnal free shipping.

- Reasonable prices considering the quality and the warranty.

- I bought 2 DDR RAM bars when it was still new technology and a bar gave out after a few months. They replaced it very quickly no questions asked. Flawless operation ever since and the memory is used 24h/day.

- I can operate my DDR RAM at way above the standard parameters (less wait states, etc) with perfect operation.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Calen on July 19, 2003, 02:46:58 AM

Crucial, never had a problem with it so i will stick to whats good.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Framiga on July 19, 2003, 03:03:14 AM

Sorry for the OT but:

have you tryed to buy SIMMs for CSPPC from

http://www.oempcworld.com ?

For the CSPPC, it is better to buy 4x 32MB SIMM or 2x 64MB?

FastPage or EDO? 2K or 4K refresh?

Thanks in advance

Ciao :-)

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: strobe on July 19, 2003, 03:08:55 AM

http://www.18004memory.com/ (http://www.18004memory.com/)

Great selection, cheap prices, cheap shipping.

I get almost all my RAM from here.

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Athlon on July 19, 2003, 09:10:25 AM

I have seen a lot of trouble with Kingston Value RAM in so far as compatabilty with other sticks of even Kingston....I was told that the Value RAM version of Kingston should not be confused as Regular Kinston RAM..

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: meerschaum on July 19, 2003, 09:31:22 AM

@iam

my reasons?

consistancy, cas latency, reliability,etc

I've setup a good 200 box's in the past 2 years and from my expierence Nanya for example... craps out alot... dosent pair up well...and generally has problems... the ones I listed as 'moderate' are usually fine working together but dont provide as good of stability or cas latency ... mushkin IMHO is the best ram bar none... why? (and no I'm not talking the value ram crap they sell but the real mushkin) because it dosent screw up! it has great cas latency, overclocks well (wich equals higher stability at reguler clock rate) they come with heat spreaders already on the chips and seldom if ever dosent pair nicely....

I really cant say 'as a rule' any of them are bad aside from the lower-end generic ram or maybe nanya...its pretty much a case of various questions 'does it pair well?" 'whats the latency?" 'how well does it overclock?" those type of questions....

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: Athlon on July 19, 2003, 07:23:12 PM

It seems all the Value Rams are crapola why don't they just chanhe the name to Crap Ram? By putting out a Value RAM like Kingston and Mushkin I think these companies hurt them selves by having thier name on inferior RAM... :-o

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: on July 20, 2003, 10:03:37 PM

Slightly OT:
Can anyone in the UK with a Pegasos tell me exactly what RAM they use, and where they bought it from.

I've tried 7 or 8 different DIMMS now, all different sizes and brands.  I'm pulling my hair out now! I've had my Peg two weeks nearly, and I can't use it!  I've been told 128MB sticks are best, but i've tried 2 that don't work.

Help!!!
 :-(

Title: Re: What is your favorite brand of RAM ?
Post by: shIva on July 21, 2003, 01:04:52 AM

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I would say

best

Mushkin
Crucial
Siemens
Corsair

moderate

samsung
kingston

bad

nanya
misc(all the cheap crap brands combined)

and thats about it...

fyi : siemens semiconductors are now called infineon, what means, if you buy ram which has the siemens brand printed on top of those ic´s, it´s either old, or  faked. :-o

can´t say much about the others, but kingston worked always fine here (sun system) and what you call "misc" works fine in nearly every x86 peecee i own.

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Corsair = stable, fastest available at time of purchase, Lifetime Warranty

like kinston does :-D