What's best brand DDR Ram?

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 6:49 pm

What is the most reccommended rame brand on the price/performance scale...best ratio?

I am looking at a Kingston for 44$ and Crucial for 46$ (including TAX...uggh)... Is crucial worth it? Should I spend the extra 10 on mushkin? What do you think? Also found Samsung for 42$....

smb · Post by **smb** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:08 pm

between Kingston and Crucial, buy the Crucial, it's alot better. IF your going to overclock, buy the Mushkin, only if it's guaranteed to go 166+.

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:23 pm

I've had good luck o/cing Crucial I had a few sticks of PC2100 that would do 150 MHz 2-2-2 all day long.

OTOH, this Samsung shite I have now won't do 2-2-2 at stock speeds

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wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:27 pm

i've been buying nothing but crucial for about 2 years and haven't regretted it

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Nov 27, 2001 8:42 pm

I am looking at some ECC DRR PC2100 Crucial ram at Anand....

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... did=634785

Someone said buying ECC will work with non-ecc (my board supports it) but it will take away from performance, how much performance...

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Wed Nov 28, 2001 4:33 pm

Sean, ECC ram checks for errors, that's what slows it down. How much? not sure, also, probably more resistant to overclocking. Only peeps running servers and stuff really need to use it, do yourself a favor and buy the regular Crucial stuff

sethpa