Question about Muskin Basic RAM

[RedShirt]

I jumped on some Mushkin 512MB PC2100 DDR RAM since it is quite cheap.

People in the hot deals repeatedly say this is for systems where preformance does not matter.

I am very confused, in a non-overclocking situation, why is this RAM worse than a stick of 512 Crucial at Cas2.5? Does anyone know? Or would they preform the same? I think these people are trying to justify to themselves why they pay more for a different brand, as Mushkin is a reputable company. Now, for overclocking, that is a whole different story, but I'm just wondering about running at default speed. Will 512 MB Mushkin preform worse than 512 MB Crucial?

Thanks.

 

[Budman]

At default speeds they are the same,just like a VW beatle & a porsche can do 55 mph on the highway.

But when overclocking the porsche goes much higher.

 

[RedShirt]

Ok... I currently run 256MB Crucial at default speed. Putting this memory in with the Crucial will have no negative affects running at this speed, only positive...

There is a difference between preformance and overclocking. I understand that overclocking the RAM will give higher preformance, but you still can have high preformance at default speeds.

Maybe I misunderstood what these people were saying, but I was taking it like adding it to my Crucial RAM would hurt my preformance and not help it.

 

[QuestionsandAnsweres]

actually it can perform slower. But not much.

 

[Dreadogg]

actually I have 512 MB of that muskin basic ram and it performs flawlessly at 2.0!

 

[RedShirt]

Originally posted by: QuestionsandAnsweres
actually it can perform slower. But not much.

How so? If it runs at the same speed, how can it preform slower?

Edit: I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just wonder how that would work.

 

[QuestionsandAnsweres]

not quite sure how not memory expert here. But the different ram chips are made different (samsung, micron etc). They both can do what they say they can do but some can be slower than the others. EVEN AT THE SAME CAS LATENCY. It probably also can be the PCB it self that makes one ram faster than the other. All i know is at stock speeds my crucial (wtih micron chips) was the fastest. Atleast thats compared to MUSHKIN PC3000 stuff which uses Samsung chips.

Not a huge difference as i said. Very small. Not worth worrying about.. but there can be just a slight difference mainly in benchmarks....

PS: Not memory expect so dont know how or why this is. But from reviews and other stuff some and from my experiences there can be slight differences.

 

[RedShirt]

Ack.... Well, if there is a preformance difference, even if it is slight, hopefully having more memory will make my comp preform better, or else I just waisted 77 bucks! (and yes, its now down to 74 :-( maybe I should have waited even longer).

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: Dreadogg
actually I have 512 MB of that muskin basic ram and it performs flawlessly at 2.0!

You overclocked 512MB to 2.0GB?