RAM ......whats the difference???

[Garyrom]

Does anyone know of a site where I can go to find out about the different types, quality and speeds of ram? Might be nice to know what I am buying and or need.
Thanks

 

[Madcowz]

Well I don't know of any RAM dedicated sites, but I can give you the following recommendations:
PC133, cas 2
Expensive but top notch quality: Mushkin, Crucial, Corsair

Out of the 3 I would pick Crucial for it's price to performance ratio

 

[Vegito]

You don't want generic at all..

generic may use micron chips, so why dont get crucial which is micron

generic may use good micron chips on generic pcb boards. You can't tell how many layers are those pcbs, they maybe 4 crappy layers and gets noise from your fan, so you'll constantly get errors and thus system crashes.

generics have no warranty, find a place thats still open last month, always check reselleratings.

mushkin, corsair, crucial have life warranty. It's kinda hard for them to shut down but it's not impossible.. just less likely.

You also won't get ripped off.. you get what you pay for, cheap ram = bad performance..

 

[Garyrom]

Thanks for the help....will check it out.😀

 

[davidkay]

So your saying Crucial RAM is poor quality?

 

[pm]

No, I don't think forcesho was saying that. He said generic memory may use Micron chips so why not buy Micron memory in the first place.
The reason to buy generic memory is to save money - personally I think it's better to get something that will work reliably and pay 20% more for it, but the best (only) reason to buy generic is cost.

 

[davidkay]

So what make of RAM would you recommend then?

 

[billandopus]

How about Infineon Ram?

 

[jinsonxu]

What about Kingston ram with Infineon chips?

 

[Vegito]

Good RAM on a cheap PCB board still makes it cheap, the pcb board is your connector to the motherboard, it's like putting a porsche engine in a yugo, the yugo is still crap cuz the other parts will fail before the engine.. same thing the PCB would probably die before the chips on it.

Getting crucial IS getting factory direct, it's not LIKE it IS factory direct.