Kingston is Samsung?

[PeteRoy]

I just bought a 2 512MB DDR400 sticks of Kingston, they have Kingston stamp on it and everything, but on the chips it reads Samsung and when I use Everest to check the SPD it says Samsung too.

What I want to know is whether I got duped or Kingston really use Samsung for it's memory.

Thank you.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Kingston uses different chips for their memory.

 

[Vegito]

they use a lot of people.. i got memory made with bunch of other brand

 

[gaidensensei]

Well, the two companies can't be one for sure.

Kingston is chinese owned.
Samsung is korean. (HQ is in korea)

They probably did some mutual agreement of some sort

 

[Nickel020]

There are those companies that manufacturer the memory chips themselves, and those who assemble the chips into RAM sticks (some do both though). Kingston, as they do not make chips themselves, buy the chips from different manufacturers, depending on what kind of RAM it is.

 

[PeteRoy]

Shouldn't it say Kingston when you diagnose the Memory with CPUZ? Like this

When I diagnose the memory in cpuz it says Samsung look here

On my memory it has a sticker that says "geniune Kingston" and the chips themselves say samsung.

Should I ask the place to replace the memory or should I stay with this even though I asked for Kingston?

 

[IntegraGSR]

samsung is a very common chip manafactuer that many memory companies use

http://www.techpowerup.com/memdb/ <-- browse through here and you'll see that the majority of memory companies use samsung or winbond chips.

 

[imported_Kensai]

Don't forget about Nanya, Infineon and Hynix.
And if you try to return it because it has Samsung chips, they're probably gonna laugh at you.

Most of the top overclocking ram is either TCCD or BH-5 which are produced by Samsung and Winbond respectively.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

If you got Samsung chips, consider yourself lucky. Crucial uses them too (for the stuff they don't make themselves). They are a good brand, though some other Kingston suppliers aren't quite so good...

 

[Swanny]

Samsung chips are good. Keep them.

 

[loafbred]

I don't think anybody has told you yet, specifically, that almost all manufacturers of memory dimms don't produce the chips they use. This includes Corsair, Mushkin, OCZ and Geil. Some do remove the original markings and add their own (or did).

Samsung chips are good quality and very popular. You should judge the quality of your RAM by its performance and voltage requirements. If it runs as advertised, or overclocks to your expectations, and is the type of dimm you want (single-sided, double-sided, or whatever else that might matter), then the chip brand isn't important.

 

[NightFlyer]

I'm the proud owner of a set of genuine Kingston memory with Infineon chips myself..
Works fine.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: loafbred
I don't think anybody has told you yet, specifically, that almost all manufacturers of memory dimms don't produce the chips they use. This includes Corsair, Mushkin, OCZ and Geil. Some do remove the original markings and add their own (or did).

Samsung chips are good quality and very popular. You should judge the quality of your RAM by its performance and voltage requirements. If it runs as advertised, or overclocks to your expectations, and is the type of dimm you want (single-sided, double-sided, or whatever else that might matter), then the chip brand isn't important.

:thumbsup:


BTW, I'm a little surprised to see that Crucial is selling some Samsung. AFAIK, Crucial is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Micron, a chip manufacturer

 

[Zepper]

Kingston will use whatever chips they can get cheapest when they make a run or may even buy the whole module if they feel it's cheaper than producing them themselves.They have a large investment in one of the chipmakers (Hynix or Infineon) and often uses their chips.

.bh.

 

[ponyo]

It's cheaper to buy than make right now.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Originally posted by: Fern

Originally posted by: loafbred
I don't think anybody has told you yet, specifically, that almost all manufacturers of memory dimms don't produce the chips they use. This includes Corsair, Mushkin, OCZ and Geil. Some do remove the original markings and add their own (or did).

Samsung chips are good quality and very popular. You should judge the quality of your RAM by its performance and voltage requirements. If it runs as advertised, or overclocks to your expectations, and is the type of dimm you want (single-sided, double-sided, or whatever else that might matter), then the chip brand isn't important.

:thumbsup:


BTW, I'm a little surprised to see that Crucial is selling some Samsung. AFAIK, Crucial is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Micron, a chip manufacturer

I was surprised too. I had to get an extra 512MB stick of PC2700 for my work PC a few months back. Ordered from Crucial as always for my Compaq d220, and got a stick of Samsung. Was curious, so I did a little digging and found out that they do supplement from time to time. They are up front about it, and it's listed in their FAQ. I had heard in other forums that Samsung was quality RAM, so it didn't bother me.