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Where to buy RAM?

AgaBoogaBoo

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As I build a price list for my next upgrade, I need to find a good place to buy RAM. I'm going to be looking for a pruchase of 2x 256mb DDR Ram PC3200
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Originally posted by: AgaBooga
As I build a price list for my next upgrade, I need to find a good place to buy RAM. I'm going to be looking for a pruchase of 2x 256mb DDR Ram PC3200

EDIT: As in, where is it cheapest?
 

HalfCrazy

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Try Newegg.com or even pricewatch.com for memory. Those are the main two I can think of right now.
 

jspeicher

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i buy all my memory through newegg. their prices are better than anywhere else (or damn close) and they are sooo easy to work with.
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Thats what I was thinking but for my requirements their best price was $40 a stick, so $80 from Geil, I haven't ever used their RAM
Anyone have comments on their RAM?

Also, I've heard taht Kingston RAM is cheap at some online store but I forget which one.
 

GnomeCop

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newegg is great, but since they are down the street...TAX is a bitch. I just get my memory from mushkins website, their regular prices arent that great, but watching the website for a week or so, you will see that they have one day sales where prices are really good/free shipping etc. Thats when I order.
 

PunDogg

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newegg.com as stated above but also look in newspapers for fliers from Best Buy or Comp Usa or something like that, they always have some cheap RAM, just depends on how much RAM u want to get at once

Dogg
 

Novgrod

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i always buy my ram through crucial, in part because it's tax-free for me, the prices aren't bad, and the second day shipping is fun.

but hard to go wrong with newegg.
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Ok, thanks. I'll check out prices with Mushkin and Crucial and newegg and watch them. But what do you think of the Geil DDR RAM?
 

drewdogg808

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check out googlegear.com as well. they've got great prices. i haven't heard alot of great things about geil, i would stick with corsair, mushkin, kingston hyperx, or twinmos/winbond. but then again, depends if you're oc'ing or just running stock. forgot to mention crucial is good too, but i feel the others are better for oc'ing.
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Originally posted by: drewdogg808
check out googlegear.com as well. they've got great prices. i haven't heard alot of great things about geil, i would stick with corsair, mushkin, kingston hyperx, or twinmos/winbond. but then again, depends if you're oc'ing or just running stock. forgot to mention crucial is good too, but i feel the others are better for oc'ing.

I'm gonna be running stock all around, except maybe my video card. I'm thinking of getting a 9700nonpro and flashing it to a 9700 pro
 

drewdogg808

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Originally posted by: TheUnhappyCamper
I really like Crucial, although they might not be the best. I've ordered basically all of my RAM from crucial.com and I always get it on time and I'm always satisfied with the product.

Here's some PC3200 DDR from Crucial

http://www.crucial.com/store/listmodule.asp?module=DDR+PC3200&Attrib=Package&cat=RAM

It's about $57 for a stick of 256 MB and you can probably get free Fedex 2nd Day on it.


that's not a bad price, but for a little more you can get some kingston hyperx pc3200 that is rated to run at 2-2-2-6 for $61.50 shipped fedex 2day.

hyperx goodness