I have an HP Pavilion N3330 laptop, with a Celeron 533mhz and 64MB of memory. Compared with most folks here, I'm a clueless newbie, but I'd like to add 128MB so I can the free ProTools sound editing program.
The HP brand-name F1622B memory costs about $270.
The Crucial equivalent costs about $100.
One of my roommates is mildly negative about non-brand-name memory. My other roommate, who usually works on high-end Macs, says I will probably spend the rest of my life looking at the blue screen of death if I use Crucial memory.
My feeling is that, even if the Crucial memory were a little more likely to be bad than the HP memory, the price difference would make up for the aggravation of having to send the bad memory to Crucial, or one or two extra blue screens of death per week.
Of course, it also seems possible to me that Crucial memory might be better than HP memory, or that Crucial could even get its memory from the same plants as HP.
Anyhow, have folks here noticed any difference between the OEM memory BSOD rate and the Crucial BSOD rate? If so, how much?
Do you have to do a lot of weird techy things that aren't in any manuals or help files to get the Crucial chip
to work right?
When Crucial memory is bad, how easy is it to reach the Crucial tech service people, and how nice are they about replacing the bad chips?
Thanks for your advice.
a.l.
The HP brand-name F1622B memory costs about $270.
The Crucial equivalent costs about $100.
One of my roommates is mildly negative about non-brand-name memory. My other roommate, who usually works on high-end Macs, says I will probably spend the rest of my life looking at the blue screen of death if I use Crucial memory.
My feeling is that, even if the Crucial memory were a little more likely to be bad than the HP memory, the price difference would make up for the aggravation of having to send the bad memory to Crucial, or one or two extra blue screens of death per week.
Of course, it also seems possible to me that Crucial memory might be better than HP memory, or that Crucial could even get its memory from the same plants as HP.
Anyhow, have folks here noticed any difference between the OEM memory BSOD rate and the Crucial BSOD rate? If so, how much?
Do you have to do a lot of weird techy things that aren't in any manuals or help files to get the Crucial chip
to work right?
When Crucial memory is bad, how easy is it to reach the Crucial tech service people, and how nice are they about replacing the bad chips?
Thanks for your advice.
a.l.
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