Corsair or Crucial

[Holysmoke2]

Is value select corsair better than crucial memory?

 

[Ionizer86]

It probably is. Crucial rates their 3200 at CL3 now unlike their 2.5 rated 2700 and 2100. They were better at overclocking then compared to now, whereas Corsair is supposed to be good stuff nowadays.

 

[MontyAC]

I would lean towards corairs, they have good memory chips. more expenisive but good.

 

[Dug]

I use Crucial in all of my computers. Not one problem yet.
The CL3 rating is conservative. It's still 5ns memory.

 

[Ionizer86]

Dug, do you happen to own any faster (2700 or 3200) Crucial? Does it overclock well? We do know that Crucial runs well at stock: their products are high-quality in that regard.

I read a review that showed that a 2700 stick couldn't even run at 2.0 at default voltages and that it didn't overclock very far unless both voltage and timings were adjusted heavily. It seems that the new stuff doesn't overclock as well as the old stuff judging from this review and from what others have said. It'd be cool to get input from higher speed Crucial DDR owners.

 

[ELopes580]

I have 2x 512MB Crucial ECC PC3200 on my Dell Poweredge system. I am able to run it at 233.4MHz (466.8MHz DDR) FSBRAM @ 1:1 Timings 3-3-3-8. According to cpu-z. Might try for more.

So far its been stable, played some gaming on it, ran the sandra burn-in loop tests. I just need to do some prime and memtest on it to make sure it is fully stable.

Very happy customer of Crucial for the past 5 yrs!!

 

[JBT]

I have a stick of crucial PC2100 that runs at 360 DDR with timings of 2.5,2,2,11 perfectly stable. My other stick of Crucial PC2700 will run at the same timmings at 410 DDR. Both with a vdimm of 2.8