Buffalo Technology - good brand?

[JediJorgie]

i want to upgrade to 1gb of memory, but havent decided on the speed i want. right now, i have an athlon xp 1800+, and would like to buy PC3500 or 3700 ram, because i plan on upgrading my processor in the near future. looking at newegg, i found this. i havent heard of the brand before, and am wondering what you think of it. i've heard from somewhere that it is big in japan, dont know if that means anything.

thanks for the help

 

[JediJorgie]

i have also been considering thisOCZ memory. OCZ is a good brand, right?

 

[Lonyo]

Winbond usually are associated with good memory chips. That Buffalo is Winbond on a Buffalo PCB, which is pretty nice (the Winbond) not sure how good Buffalo are, but I haven't heard anything about Buffalo (bad or good)

 

[bjc112]

Tom has a review..

 

[Acanthus]

OCZ is rebranded chips and can sometimes require higher voltages to operate at its rated speed.

 

[Brian48]

I'm using a 512mb stick of Buffalo PC3200. As far as I can tell, it's just a re-labelled Winbond.

 

[Corporate Thug]

OCZ is top dawg in the memory game when it comes to high end stuff (pc3200, pc3500, pc3700)

buffalo is a great brand, they are like the corsair of japan

 

[modestninja]

Buffalo is reputable. I have never heard anyone complain about them and have heard plenty of people rave about them (mainly AMD users).

 

[dexvx]

Buffalo is like Corsair, except they dont have fancy useless memory heatsinks to draw in customers. They actually know where to cut costs.

 

[JediJorgie]

my next question would be will faster memory run on my motherboard? i have an epox 8kha+, and i am not sure if it supports speeds faster than 2100. from what i saw on their website, it says "3 slots for PC2100" does that mean it will just run at that speed until i get a new mobo and processor, or will it not work at all?

 

[Lyfer]

Originally posted by: dexvx
Buffalo is like Corsair, except they dont have fancy useless memory heatsinks to draw in customers. They actually know where to cut costs.

I wouldn't go that far.

 

[JediJorgie]

Originally posted by: JediJorgie
my next question would be will faster memory run on my motherboard? i have an epox 8kha+, and i am not sure if it supports speeds faster than 2100. from what i saw on their website, it says "3 slots for PC2100" does that mean it will just run at that speed until i get a new mobo and processor, or will it not work at all?

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[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: modestninja
Buffalo is reputable. I have never heard anyone complain about them and have heard plenty of people rave about them (mainly AMD users).

Well then here's your first. I bought a stick of Buffalo RAM, with the Windbond chips from Newegg - 256MB, PC3200. Maybe 1 our of 10 reboots will be successful at 200MHz. Most of the time, the board (Epox 8RDA+) will simply start beeping (POST code C1) during POST, and continue that until I power down the system. It would only POST below 200MHz, even at 2.9V. This was WITH the VDD mod for the chipset, so that wasn't the culprit. I tried it in another system - same thing. This stick of "PC3200" wouldn't do 200MHz. I wasn't able to read the SPD data off of it; the utility I tried (AIDA32) could not read any SPD info off of it, as though it wasn't there at all.
For the record, I'm using Geil's Value stuff, PC3200, in both of my 8RDA+ PC's, at rated speed, dual channel, and all's working just fine.

 

[4x4expy]

Originally posted by: JediJorgie
i have also been considering thisOCZ memory. OCZ is a good brand, right?

I have some OCZ PC3500EL, supposed to do 434ddr at 2-3-3-6 but craps out around 370ddr at 2.5-3-3-8! I would have been better off picking up some Generic PC3200 over this $150 stick of trash. Needless to say, I have purchased my first and last OCZ product. With that said, some have had good luck with the brand.

I have since replaced the OCZ in my main system with a TwinMOS Winbond 512mb module, and memory instability is a thing of the past for me.

 

[cjsketchy]

Originally posted by: JediJorgie

Originally posted by: JediJorgie
my next question would be will faster memory run on my motherboard? i have an epox 8kha+, and i am not sure if it supports speeds faster than 2100. from what i saw on their website, it says "3 slots for PC2100" does that mean it will just run at that speed until i get a new mobo and processor, or will it not work at all?

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It should still work in there. You might not be able to run higher speeds if the board can't handle it, but it will run at PC2100. I ran a stick of Corsair PC3200 in my P4B533-e with 845E chipset board (with "official" support for PC2100 only) just fine at PC3200+ speeds.

 

[Mday]

Originally posted by: shady06
OCZ is top dawg in the memory game when it comes to high end stuff (pc3200, pc3500, pc3700)

buffalo is a great brand, they are like the corsair of japan

ocz... TOP DOG MY ASS... you registered in april, you must have missed the crap they pulled before you got here.

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: Mday

Originally posted by: shady06
OCZ is top dawg in the memory game when it comes to high end stuff (pc3200, pc3500, pc3700)

buffalo is a great brand, they are like the corsair of japan

ocz... TOP DOG MY ASS... you registered in april, you must have missed the crap they pulled before you got here.

What about all the people that are now bowing down to OCZ as 'da bomb that were here when all the crap was going on? It's funny how soon people forget.

 

[Excelsior]

Swanny - Get the PC3200 Buffalo Tech. Has Winbond Ch-5. Does better than the 3700 stuff.

 

[JediJorgie]

so if you guys were going to get 2 sticks of 512 PC3500, what would you get?

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Mday

Originally posted by: shady06
OCZ is top dawg in the memory game when it comes to high end stuff (pc3200, pc3500, pc3700)

buffalo is a great brand, they are like the corsair of japan

ocz... TOP DOG MY ASS... you registered in april, you must have missed the crap they pulled before you got here.

believe, i know the crap they pulled with OCing their ram and what not but it seems to me they really cleaned up their act with the pc3500 EL and the pc 3700 EL. i hear the pc3700 can even run at pc4000

 

[wicktron]

I was there then, I am here now. OCZ's high end product is just as good, if not better than other brands' high end product. Their Gold line is simply amazing when using Springdale/Canterwood.

I have some Buffalo PC3700 with Winbond BH-5 chips. They do the job. That's all that matters.

 

[MDE]

OK, I registered less than two weeks ago, what was OCZ pulling? I know it's off topic, but I'm curious

 

[Lyfer]

Crucial PC3200 512MB $92 a stick with crucials 30 day money back guarantee. you cant go wrong.

 

[MrCodeDude]

Yeah, the BuffaloTech with Winbond BH-5 chips MemoryX.com was selling were the same chips Crucial was putting in their PC3700 line. They were only like $90 or so for a 512MB stick too.
-- mrcodedude

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
OK, I registered less than two weeks ago, what was OCZ pulling? I know it's off topic, but I'm curious

Search the AT archives for "OCZ" or "Mr Natural" . I think it was about one year to a year and a half ago that the sh*t really hit the fan. Go to the Mad Onion forums and search there too, if they haven't pulled all the OCZ posts you're in for quite an interesting read.