Bay Area Fry's, 256MB PC2700 DDR $64.99

[ShotgunSi]

I saw this in today's Mercury News. It shows a picture of "Mushkin Enhanced Memory Systems" towards the bottom. Is this memory any good?

 

[iwearnosox]

Uh, if it's mushkin it's basically the best memory out there.

 

[fengpc]

It's Mushkin. But I think Samsung 2700 is still a better choice.

 

[KrayzyAzn]

and the samsung pricewatches for $58 shipped

 

[boi]

Originally posted by: fengpc
It's Mushkin. But I think Samsung 2700 is still a better choice.

I agree. Running @ 2-3-3-6 187.5MHz w/ Samsung pc2700 =)

 

[ShotgunSi]

DOH! Oh well I bought two sticks and confirmed that they are Mushkin PC 2700. They are also "basic" whatever that means. I suppose no overclocking with these, but I don't plan to anyways. Where can you get the other ones for $58 shipped?

 

[AkumaX]

in so cal frys its basic mushkin pc2100 for $64

 

[Praxis]

Mushkin Basic is pretty much generic glop RAM. I have a stick of the PC133 stuff that I can't even run at CAS2. Every stick of cheap "CAS3" Kingston ValueRam PC133 SDRAM I've ever had does CAS2 without breaking a sweat (and the CAS2 PC100 Valueram all did 133 MHz CAS3 with no problem). I wouldn't pay any sort of a premium just to have the hallowed Mushkin name on a stick of generic RAM.

 

[AMDBOY]

It is hallowed if you get the better quality. All brands come in different quality & speeds/cl ratings. Just depends on your needs/wants. You want better ram to O/C ?? It usually costs more. The Fry's ad... probably ok for general use, not O/C. The price is about the same as you can find at
googlegear[/L] or kommax.com. But you can get cl2 online for near that price. (plus shipping,plus handling, plus tax, bla, bla,bla.

 

[Praxis]

I wouldn't buy squat from Kommax. They have a Resellers Rating of 4.69 & a 'last six months' rating of 3.12. It is richly deserved if they are the same outfit that goes by that name that attended a computer show in Oakland. I bought a cheap box that said it was a PCI sound card from them. It turned out it was an ISA sound card AND it didn't work properly and the mofos charged me a 15% restocking fee (sure, it was only something like $2, but its the principle of the thing, plus the interest).

These days the best deals on DDR seem to be after MIR packages from the big box electronics stores. That is, if they actually send the MIR. PNY is kind of lousy about that, scan all your paperwork.

The best online deal on PC2700 from a company with an OK Resellersrating seems to be about $53 for generic from 1st Choice Memory in California. Pricewatch lists an Ohio company called AmeriComp, Inc as having Samsung PC2700 256 MB of DDR for $58 delivered, but they don't seem to have a Resellersrating and their site lists the stick for $70.

A company called Z-Buy (5.78/6.68 RSR but I've dealt with them a couple of times and had no problems) sells a 256 MB Samsung DIMM for about $60.57 and about $5 S&H from N.Y. Things will being going hard for you if you can't get a Samsung or Valueram CL2.5 chip to do CL2 at 166MHz, I gather. But you'd be lucky to get Mushkin Basic to do CL2.

 

[ShotgunSi]

Thanks for the heads up, once again you guys rock! I'll probably return it today and spend a few extra bucks on the good stuff.