Crucial vs Mushkin

[Stormblade]

Hey All,

Got a question. I am comparing Mushkin PC133 Cas 2 256 meg module with the crucial PC133 Cas 2 256 meg module. Mushkin's price is $188 and crucial's is $111. Why is there such a price difference? Which do you recommend I get?

 

[badguy]

Mushkin modules are expensive because they use 6-layer PCB, very good quality.

 

[UKspace]

Crucial!!! ROCK!

 

[Noriaki]

You just epxlained why I like Crucial better.

Mushkin is better RAM for overclockers, but Crucial is very good RAM to. And I prefer it because of the price difference.

Is that Rev2 or Rev3 Mushkin? If you can find Rev1.5 it's not so bad. Still PC133 2-2-2 but not as overclockable as Rev2 or Rev3.

Rev2 will do 143Mhz 2-2-2, and Rev3 will do 150Mhz 2-2-2 I believe is how it works.

They are still called PC133 becuase there is no PC143 or PC150 spec..but they are much higher overclockers.

 

[dolphins]

Well the real reason why micron/crucial memory is so cheap in comparison is because of the sheer size of the company. they can afford to cut prices and move ram in bulk whereas mushkin doesnt have the where with all to do the same. mushkin is a smaller outfit in terms of size and has to try and maintain a certain price in order to turn a profit. On the other hand micron can afford to slash prices and make it up in volume and also start moving stuff out of inventory because its backing up in the channel due to the economy( thank you greenspan) going into the proverbial tank. As for quality people will differ but micron/crucial is excellent memory and will save you some bucks for something else.

 

[Dulanic]

Crucial also uses a 6 layer PCB. They are both good memory.

 

[Dulanic]

And of corse Noraki is understating it.... both Crucial PC133 and Mushkin Rev2 will both usually run 150.

 

[Vegito]

Crucial is a manufacture whom happends to sell ram chips also, Mushkin is a seller. You'll see that some Mushkin are Micron chips which are basically crucial.

Anyway, Crucial sell to OEM, etc,etc.. not just us, most OEM will not buy Mushkin because they're not in the field of overclocking..

End-user buy Mushkin because of it's ability to reach high FSB

 

[Pardus]

I bought some ram from compuwiz1, who was selling the same ram as mushkin

Crucial also has good ram, but they charge sales tax in my area, makes the deal not so good.

Buy ram from compuwiz1 or from crucial, either way, you cannot go wrong.

 

[jaydee]

Or you can go to egghead.com and get 256MB of Kingson PC133 for $88 after rebate. It's cas 3, but I would be severely shock if ou couldn't get cas 2 out of it, if not cas 2 and 140+mhz. Then again I'm a big fan of Kingston.

 

[miniMUNCH]

Noraki:

As it turns out 128MB mushkin rev2 and rev1.5 OC better than all rev3 and 256MB rev2.

The former mentioned ram uses mosel 7ns chips...the later, Infineon 7.5ns chips. I have rev1.5 and some "generic" (good quality though) mosel rev2 that both hit 160+ 2-2-2 on a CUSL2. Infineon 7.5ns anything can't do that, including mushkin rev3.

My basic rule of thumb is now: buy quality ram, but buy based on the chip/MB combo. Some mem chips get better resuls with certain chipsets than others. KT/KTA chipsets and mosel seem to get along well (115 FSB, mem 153 2-2-2 on my and other's KT7-RAID). Mosel and i815 get along really well, especially CUSL2's (166 FSB/mem 2-2-2 on friends sys). Can't comment on other chipsets, don't have any experience.

Based on experience I'm a very strong mosel supporter, not necessarily mushkin, although they are about the only place to get mosel where you can be sure of the DIMM 's quality.

 

[Stormblade]

Thanks for all the replies guys. I was just concerned that perhaps the crucial (Which I already knew was good quality) member was different in some major way than the other and that's why the price difference. But if this is the case then awesome. I'll be getting crucial.

 

[aGeNt73]

go for crucial! its just as good

 

[Super6]

Crucial (Micron) may not overclock as high as some flavors of Mushkin but it's quality is top shelf (6 layer PCB), it works on any MB out there, and the pricing is very good these days. Warranty and customer service is also very good.

Super6

 

[hardtail]

Just to clarify the relationships...
For all of you who already know this, ignore.

Crucial is a subsidiary of Micron Electronics, a large US semi-conductor mfg in based in Boise, ID. Micron Computer is also a subsidiary. Crucial take the Micron produced memory, and fabricates (or contracts fabrication) of the various modules, as well as marketing and distribution.

Mushkin is a Denver, CO memory reseller that purchases quantities of fabricated modules of high quality and sells into the wholesale and retail channels.

As indicated, both offer a consistantly high quality product...

You can find Micron chips on modules from all manner of modlule fabricators, some good and some not so good, so just looking at a chip won't tell you much.

ht

 

[XRdirtHead]

Crucial...