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What is considered "generic" memory?

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JeremiahTheGreat

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I have 1 stick of Hyundai 256 pc133. Is this considered "generic"?

From what i hear around this forum, any non "micron" or "crucial" ram is considered generic. Are there any OTHER brands that are good because in Australia, no one ever sells those types of ram.
 


<< I have 1 stick of Hyundai 256 pc133. Is this considered "generic"? >>


no that's not generic ram. it would be considered generic if you really couldn't tell who actually made it!
 
I bought a "generic" stick of RAM and it was a PNY stick. So that's not reaaaally thru 😉, I think you can always identify the stick... A generic one is made of diffrent components from diffrent companies IIRC and "majorbrand" is all made from the same company... a generic maybe a PNY RAM chips and a PCB from a diffrent company, but I'm not sure... read it some time ago
 


<< ...in Australia, no one ever sells those types of ram. >>



I have that exact same problem. In Melbourne, the only brands I can find are Hyundai and Kingmax. Does anybody know these companies track record for making RAM?
 
generic memory is generally when the chip manufacturer isnt known to manufacture chips of quality.

Like recently we got some memory that was manufactured by "Winbond".. Winbond makes CMOS stuff, so I woudlnt consider them high performance. However Hyundai, Toshiba, IBM, Micron, Crucial, Samsung, Hitachi, NEC, Infieon, kingston etc etc are high quality and hence not generic.
 
KingMax and Hyundai are big name RAM manufacturers.

As far as generic goes, I would call a DIMM generic if

A) It doesn't come in a box
B) No one tells you who the entire DIMM is manufactured by.

It's not really a matter of the RAM chip manufacturer, but the DIMM as a whole.

In Australia, it's very rare to find brand name memory, although Kingston is not too hard to come by. Most chips (as opposed to DIMMs) that you see in Australia are manufactured by Hyundai, PQI, some Infineon, Micron and possibly NEC (although I haven't seen RAM from them in Melbourne for a while).
 
I use NCP memory... I have no problems with it....
I have also found PQI memory with Hitachi chips to be quite good. I got it from IT Supermarket in Clayton

Cheers
 
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