Memmory diff?

[fijianflash187]

yo i am gonna be buying a new comp, and was wondering if the name brand mem will make a diff, so far micron and samsung are they most ive seen here in canada with some stores carrying crucuial but its quite $$, i am not going to be o/c jus regular application so will it make a diff if i got generic samsung micron, crucial etc?/? thanx in advance for ur help

Projected Comp specs:
CPU:AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (retail)

Memory:512M PC-2100 DDR RAM

MotherBoard: SOYO SY-K7V Dragon Plus M/B w/6 Channel Audio & RAID & Lan

Drive A: Panasonic 1.44M Floppy Drive

Hard Drive: Maxtor 80G, 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive

CD-Writer: Lite-On 24x10x40x Cdwriter w/SW w/Burn Proof

Video Card: ATI Radeon 8500 64M DDR AGP4X Video Card w/Tvout(Retail)

Tower Case: 18" C550 Front-USB Case w/400W PS & 2 Extra Case Fan

Speaker: Creative Inspire 5300 5.1 Speaker (6ps)

 

[Kingofcomputer]

it's better to buy micron or samsung original made module.
if it's made by 3rd party, better to buy a good brand one like kingston, corsair, viking, pny, etc, not OCZ.

 

[fijianflash187]

k thanx

 

[Lalakai]

if you're not planning on oc'g, nor really stressing your unit (cad work, video/photo editing), you could probably get by with generic stuff. But with memory costs as low as they are, put out a couple extra bucks and not have to worry about memory glitches by going with solid name brand stuff. I'm using samsung chips sold by mushkin (middle of the road stuff) and they stand up to alot of use.

 

[fijianflash187]

yo 1 more ?whats the diff between juz plain 266mhz 2100 ddr, 266mhz ecc, and 266mz ecc registered? thanx

 

[Kingofcomputer]

for the difference between ecc/non-ecc, registered/unbuffered, etc, check out Crucial's faq.