Which memory manufacturer do you choose if price isn't a factor?

[bgc99]

Thanks for the replies. I knew OCZ quit making ram modules. It's funny how brands fall in and out of favor. Five years ago, the OCZ I have was recommended by a lot of people at the time.

 

[Patrick Wolf]

Mmm, whatever goes with my board's color theme?

 

[Soundmanred]

GSkill

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

crucial, mushkin, corsair, kingston, gskill in that order.

 

[StrangerGuy]

Since when prices are never a factor?

I never even bothered to looked outside of basic RAM prices as long as I can remember.

 

[Ben90]

I haven't been in the performance loop for quite a while, but your going to want to be looking at who makes the IC, not the packaged thing.

Asking for what company makes the best RAM is like asking which website sells the best processor. The actual question you would want to ask in this scenario would be what the best processor is.

I know Elpida used to make the fastest DDR3 despite being plagued with problems. This was a couple of years ago and the IC's in question have been pulled from the marked because of said problems. XS might be the best place to start your search for the best RAM ICs.

 

[Ben90]

After some research it does indeed look like Elpida Hyper is going to be the fastest memory money can buy. Unfortunately non of the major retailers carry the good stuff. Used will probably be your only option, and I can easily see the negotiated price going a few grand for a highend kit of the time that still works.

 

[Blain]

Corsair, Crucial
Mushkin
Micron, Samsung

 

[Jacky60]

Corsair or Kingston although recently bought Adata

 

[bryanl]

Why were most of the answers wrong?

 

[Blain]

Why were most of the answers wrong?

Because they listed brands rather than "manufacturers"?

 

[e-drood]

hynix - performance / samsung & micron - midstream + reliability

m4e using g.skill 4gbx2 f3-12800cl8d-8gbxm hynix chips (cl9 may contain several possible chips) (cl7 also hynix) and w7 enterprise 64bit

4gb --- 8gb --- 16gb begins to slowdown a little / 8gb effective

 

[dpodblood]

I would normally say Corsair, but their heat spreaders are too large these days. I've been using G.Skill lately.

 

[e-drood]

ben90 elpida does produce good dram, pls see www.elpida.com/en pls note ddr3 module timings - mainstream & if oc'd loosened to cl12 0r 13 + v increase... their sodimms are good and widely used, as are samsung

 

[86waterpumper]

Elpida is silly fast when it comes to timings and latency, but that isn't as important as it used to be and it for sure costs a big premium. It is more useful for amd systems than it is for intel. For my current build I went with the 1.35 volt mushkins, we will see how they do...

 

[Inspire]

G.skill, Corsair, Mushkin and Kingston

 

[deimos3428]

I've had good luck with G-Skill, A-Data, and Mushkin recently.

 

[Wanescotting]

Mushkin, Crucial or Corsair.

Corsair is what i currently use in all of my machines.

This plus gskill

 

[Ben90]

ben90 elpida does produce good dram, pls see www.elpida.com/en pls note ddr3 module timings - mainstream & if oc'd loosened to cl12 0r 13 + v increase... their sodimms are good and widely used, as are samsung

I don't believe they are as fast as they used to be. It was possible to get DDR-2300 @ 8-8-8-24 almost two years ago. The fastest currently Newegg sells is DDR-2200 @ 9-11-9-28. I couldn't tell you who makes the current stuff.

 

[e-drood]

their drams are not - elpida is now using powerchip tw as foundry - elpida buys 1/2 of fab output with powerchip using balance for other clients - also powerchip has stopped marketing under it's own brand name due to use of elpida technology transfer...

you are correct - elpida focused on mid market drams/memory modules these days

 

[Elganja]

corsair or gskill

will never buy OCZ again

 

[metalfacepc]

Probably Corsair or Kingston

 

[BayouL]

Mushkin, then Corsair. I've been using Mushkin or Corsair since maybe the black cartridge cpu days! The first PC I built was a Pentium 233, overclocked to 266!

 

[bryanl]

Why were most of the answers wrong?

Because they listed brands rather than "manufacturers"?

Because most listed low quality products.

 

[midwestfisherman]

Mushkin
Kingston

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