Choosing memory brand

[taq8ojh]

Nope but their desktop retail parts at 30nm were industry leading in terms of power & overclocking headroom, even more so at 20nm.

Well, in ten years I have never ever saw Samsung branded memory in any shop. If they supply OEMs with noname modules, great, but normal human apparently cannot get one.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I've been a happy Gskill user since DDR2 days. Was previously a mostly Kingston DDR1 user, especially their HyperX CAS2 modules.

 

[taq8ojh]

I am starting to like that brand. People almost universally praise it, and it's fairly available even in this hillbilly land.

 

[lenjack]

Been using Adata with no problems at 1600, 1.6v.

 

[blastingcap]

I take it then that Ballistix are fine these days? I have stress-tested 16GB of DDR3-1866 Ballistix (4x4GB on AsRock Extreme4 Z77 and Kingwin AP-550 Platinum PSU) with HCI Memtest and Memtest86+ for multiple days, and Prime95 blends for about 24 hours as well. No problems.

It dates back to the DDR2 days, when Ballistix DDR2 were dropping like flies. I think it was well over 50% failure rate for me personally, and forums were filled with complaints.



Samsung Magic RAM

Low voltage
Low profile
Overclocks like mad
Cheap

This was a mind expanding experience for many overclockers who thought that you had to pay a boatload for factory overclocked and overvolted RAM that had huge heatsinks/heatspreaders.

Like everything else (see Ballistix above) people will probably remember it for years. I still see constant recommendations to "buy this stuff for $15/4GB," even though that pricing and supply is long gone. I expect to continue seeing such statements in forums, just like people refusing to use [insert GPU brand here] due to driver issues fixed years ago, or people equating Celeron = Crap based on vague memories of original Pentium 4 based Celerons, unaware that you can get a $50 dual core Ivy Bridge CPU these days that just happens to have a Celeron name on it. How about the general "I won't use XYZ brand because they are crap" statements? :whiste:

 

[Z15CAM]

Samsung MV-3V4G3D-US_ 2X4G_GREEN DDR3 Modules for $60 at Micro Center. Amazon wants $106 for 1 module - Sish!

Sampsung only make 4G Modules of this Ram.

I run 4x4G sticks at 1866Mhz, 9-9-9-24-1T @ 1.2 Volts. Got them for $96 CDN from NewEgg CA about 6 months ago.

 

[bryanl]

If you're not overclocking, why do you need RAM that is higher than 1333MHz?

It's often the only way to get actual brand name 1333 MHz chips.

 

[nenforcer]

I've been nothing but a Crucial Ballistix user but you have to stick with the newer chips only from them because after a while they start to rebrand overseas chips (Elpida, Hynix, Samsung). (Original Micron D9 DDR2 chips were all the rage but the later DDR2 chips did have the poor reliability as mentioned above)

Micron is the only US DRAM manufacturer left and Crucial is their retail arm which is why I support them.

 

[john3850]

I switched to G Skill in 2009 do to the short life span of Ballistix DDR2.
I saw a few posts about the Ballistix low voltage and decided to try it out again.
That vlp Ballistix DDR3 1600 runs good at ddr3 2000 with 1.40v

 

[Magic Carpet]

Been running this kit, overclocked, for 6 months. Not a single issue.

 

[TigCobra]

Been using Crucial and Kingston Ram for years, I don't have much experience with any other brand to be honest.

 

[tweakboy]

A-DATA is good too, NOT!!

 

[Ice_Dragon]

Don't understand the Samsung love. I've seen a boat load of bad Samsung OEM ram over the years.

The green modules right not the black modules? The ones I bought retail from NewEgg have been fine knock on wood.

 

[Montosaurous]

I always use Crucial if they have competitive pricing.

 

[roedtogsvart]

My vote goes against GSkill. I've got an 8GB (4 x 2) kit in my system that won't even run 100mhz over the rated specs without intolerable instability, even with tons of voltage. Very disappointed in it.

 

[tweakboy]

Ya G SKILL is good budget and fast same with kingston,, sorta mainstream

Fastest RAM would be Samsung or Corsair NOTE, 2133 and 1866, you will not tell a difference at all and your latency goes up...

 

[RLGL]

G Skill here, 4 years , 2 machines no failures. I have had to replace Corsair , Mushkin, Kingston, PNY and several others over the years

 

[fffblackmage]

I've been nothing but a Crucial Ballistix user but you have to stick with the newer chips only from them because after a while they start to rebrand overseas chips (Elpida, Hynix, Samsung). (Original Micron D9 DDR2 chips were all the rage but the later DDR2 chips did have the poor reliability as mentioned above)

Micron is the only US DRAM manufacturer left and Crucial is their retail arm which is why I support them.

I thought the D9 had reliability issues too. I guess I remembered wrong, because I'm still using an old DDR2-800 2x1GB 2.2V kit (at 1.8V and lax timings though), while a newer set of DDR2-800 2x2GB 2.0V died on me.