Memory Question

[Winter09]

Hi,
I'm starting to build a new system and I was wondering if anyone had any good sites or personal experience with different brands of RAM. The 3 main brands I was looking at were Crucial (Micron), Mushkin, and Corsair. Pros and cons of these brands would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Winter09

 

[Om]

All are good, but the best out of those is Crucial so I guess it depends on what you want. Micron is the best, which is where Crucial is made, it comes off the same line. I've never had any problems with any of the memory that I've bought but all three of my machines including my laptop all have Crucial in them.

 

[Deskstar]

I currently have only Crucial and generic memory in my machines, but Mushkin and Corsair are definite options (High quality all). By the way if you are using DDR Ram, only Mushkin and Corsair are offering "enhanced" extra-speed memory; Crucial's DDR even though marketed as PC2100 will overclock very, very well. I imagine that Crucial will come out with a labelled stick of PC2700 (DDR333) very soon since their PC2100 already reaches those speeds, according to many of the threads and reviews.

If you want to resell the memory later, stick with one of those "brand" names. Generic will work, usually, but harder to resell later.
Good luck.

 

[Deskstar]

AT Forum compiles the contents of the system rigs that are posted by AT Forum members like you (and me). Here are the current results for memory selection:


Memory Stats

Corsair: 336
Crucial: 4736
Generic: 1600
Micron: 1371
Mushkin: 827