Memory of choice, Crucial PC3200 or Komusa PC4000?

[CP]

Given the following memories which one would be a better way to go. Komusa memory is cheap but rated at PC4000. Crucial is more expensive but rate only at PC3200. Please advice

1. Komusa 1GB PC4000
2. Crucial XMS 1GB PC3200

 

[MDE]

That's not Crucial, it's Corsair.

 

[myocardia]

Well, what board are you planning on using this memory with? The Komusa has 3-4-4-8 timing. Ram timings seem to be fairly important with the P4 and the Athlon, although more so for things like gaming or benchmarking. At least the Komusa, which i've never heard of, has heat spreaders and a lifetime warranty. One thing you might want to consider though, how good is a lifetime warranty from a company that might not be around 3 or 4 months from now? The Corsair XMS, from the second link, is what I would buy. Corsair stands behind what they sell, and that ram has 2-3-3-6 timings, which is much better than 3-4-4-8. You're just going to have to decide how important the $30 difference is to your wallet, I guess.

 

[Corporate Thug]

corsair

 

[FPSguy]

Certainly Corsair has the better reputation. However, if speed is your goal which sticks you want depends on what chip you are using, whether you are overclocking, and how high you will be able to overclock. If you have a P4 and won't get any higher than a 250 MHz bus, the Komusa at 250 MHz 1:1 will probably be a tad faster than the Corsair at 200MHz, 5:4 with tighter timings (though the research on that is somewhat contradictory, and in any event it's close -- Review1; Review2; Review3). If you are going to overclock above 250 MHz then, according to Review1, you may get better results from the Corsair at 3:2 with tight timings than from the Komusa at 5:4 with loose timings.

 

[CP]

I am planning to use on Shuttle SB65G2 XPC, and might overclock.

 

[FPSguy]

As best I can tell, the BIOS for that motherboard does not allow you to set the ratio between the FSB and the RAM, meaning that the RAM must run at the same speed as the FSB. Therefore, the top speed of the memory will be a factor in how high you can overclock. From a quick search it looks like the Corsair memory can overclock to around 230MHz. I don't see anything that indicates how high the Komusa memory can overclock, if at all.

So now what you need to do is figure out which Intel processor you are going to buy, check its average overclock at Overclockers.com, determine what bus speed is necessary for that processor to hit that overclock, and then determine whether the Corsair memory can hit that speed. If the Corsair can hit that speed, and speed is your main goal, get the Corsair (because it is likely to have lower timings and thus be faster when run at the same speed as the Komusa memory). If the Corsair cannot hit that speed, get the Komusa memory, because a 5 or 10 MHz or more increase in FSB speed (and the corresponding increase in processor speed) is a much bigger factor in the overall speed of a P4 system than is low memory timings.

 

[Lyfer]

Komusa?


I wouldn't have my rig come close to that stuff.



More corsair please.