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which brand?

I know micron is good...any others that are equallly dependable. I would buy another stick of micron but the one I recently bought crapped out on me.
 
Most people will probably tell you that Crucial is the best. Kingston is also fairly high regarded, though.
 
Ive always used Kingston Value and never had a problem....
 
thanks

doesn't crucial only sell memory with micron chips?

My computer is driving me nuts!!! I am so frustrated I walked into the store that only sells macs and priced them.

I guess that means a new learning curve (currently use Vegas)
Can't decide if it's worth it but if I have to reinstall my operating system one more time i am defecting from PC land.
 
If you need computer help, this can sometimes be a good place to get it. Did you buy an OEM computer, or build your own? What are you having problems with?
 
Just buy it.

They all come out of the same factory for the most part. It's hard to make a mistake with something this complicated and have it *still* work. Nitty gritty when a chip don't work. Not like the brakes on your car, which can work ok, or 'good enough'. Kingston is a ripoff as is Celestica/Kingston.


I'm partial to Micron, LG and TI (yes they still exist). For no particuliar reason either. Their chips are well marked. If you want to test these chips at home, you'll need some major bucks in equipment. A quake 2 test won't do it. CAS RAS, looks pretty on a benchmark.
 
Emeric is right, there are only about 3 or 4 factories in the world turning out RAM. Remember a few years ago when RAM went up in price through the ceiling??? One of the factories in Japan burned down that produced the base substrate (there were only two factories at that time) and they went nuts getting a couple of others built so they could spread out the sources.

Micron's site (www.crucial.com) is excellent. Great Ram finder, good prices and sometime's free shipping.
 
Cool thanks for all the information.

I can't believe my ram crapped out. I got a message when my computer booted up stating that MS was testing extended memory and found an error in sector so and so.

My computer would then proceed to restart itself and wouldn't even boot to safe mode. It would just click off as if someone had flipped a circuit braker or something. When I swapped out ram with some from my old computer it ran fine. At first I really suspected the store that I bought it from ripped me off. I thought that they tried to sell me pc100 marked (with a sticker) as pc133 and that I had been over clocking it.

I matched the numbers on the chip and it turns out that they sold me exactly what they said they did. How could my memory just go kaput. I don't get it. Oh well guess I'll just have to shell out for another stick.

Eurythmic,

I built my computer myself which is one of the things I really love and hate about PCs.
 
That's a real bummer. :(

I don't suppose the RAM is still under warranty? Well, I guess if it were, you wouldn't be here. On the bright side, it's SDRAM and SDRAM is dirt cheap.

I haven't seen RAM fail too many times before.
 
I've seen plenty of memory problems, from complete failure to random instability. If you think all memory is created equal just because the IC's are all made by a few companies, then you're sadly mistaken.

Get high quality memory with a long warranty. Get CAS2 SDRAM not because it's faster, but because it implies a better module, and costs only dollars more.

You can't go wrong with Crucial (micron). Kingston, Viking, PNY, Simple; they're all good when they're cheap. Avoid off-brand generic memory like the plague.

Slackmaster 2000
 
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