Best Quality Ram Brand?

HiddenStupid · Oct 14, 2007

What is the best quality ram brand?

If you have trouble decide.... feel free to vote randomly.

I bought PNY ram and it came with non-PNY brand inside. Will never deal with PNY again.

ps. whats the difference between Kingston and Kingston HyperX?

zekrahminator · Oct 14, 2007

I vote Mushkin. I put my 2x512MB kit through multiple systems, shipped it all across New England, overclocked it a bit, and it's never faltered. You can't argue with durable, consistent, and reliable power.

panchoman · Oct 14, 2007

lol, most memory chips are made by companies like micron, samsung, and elpidia. micron d9 is the best chip out there. brands like crucial and muskin contain pure micron d9's.

T1GG4L4T0R · Oct 14, 2007

i am gonna have to say patriot,i had 2 512mb of pc7200 sticks that would do 560mhz benchable.they were sooo reliable and i lent them out a few times and they worked in every board.

i have had crappy luck with crucial in my p5k-premium board,two lots of ballistix pc5300 going tits up in this board,but i know crucial is good stuff.

ex_reven · Oct 14, 2007

This isnt going to determine the best quality ram brands, only what most people own.

Example - Some memory is very popular in that generally it yields good overclocks etc. But not every user has the same experience with their memory.

T1GG4L4T0R · Oct 14, 2007

it will at least show the most popular brands.

panchoman · Oct 14, 2007

i've got patriots, great memory, but its a mix of micron d9's and elpidias, so i'd rather go with crucial since its pure micron d9. same with ocz.

J-Man · Oct 14, 2007

JacKz5o · Oct 14, 2007

I say G.Skill. They overclock great and I very rarely hear someone talk about their G.Skill RAM going bad.

ex_reven · Oct 14, 2007

JacKz5o said:
I say G.Skill. They overclock great and I very rarely hear someone talk about their G.Skill RAM going bad.

The packaging is also small, yet awesome :roll:

Grings · Oct 14, 2007

Cellshock, it's expensive though

HiddenStupid · Oct 14, 2007

Additional question.... what is the most expensive PC3200 ram?

Kursah · Oct 14, 2007

JacKz5o said:
I say G.Skill. They overclock great and I very rarely hear someone talk about their G.Skill RAM going bad.

I do agree, but I had a stick of DDR2-800 G.Skill go bad on me with this build, the RMA was quick and painless! And I recieved the second gen batch of the phu2-2gbHZ kit, never been happier! Does DDR1000, 4-4-4-12 @ 2.15v, and is memtest stable! Couldn't be happier!

My other system has cheap Mosel DDR400 1gb kit. Both kits have heatspreaders.

:rockout:

Grings · Oct 14, 2007

HiddenStupid said:
Additional question.... what is the most expensive PC3200 ram?

probably mushkin redline, if you can even find any now

newtekie1 · Oct 14, 2007

Crucial has probably the best quality, IMO.

However, G.Skill is pretty much just as good and usually cheaper so all my machines have G.Skill in them right now.

trt740 · Oct 14, 2007

Mushkin Redline

Wile E · Oct 14, 2007

I voted Crucial, but I also like G.skill. Currently running Crucial Ballistix in my system, so that's the only reason it got my vote.

mitsirfishi · Oct 14, 2007

i put my vote as G.skill as great quality and great overclocking

intel igent · Oct 14, 2007

OCZ 4 me

Judas · Oct 14, 2007

Mushkin gets my vote

HookeyStreet · Oct 14, 2007

I would say OCZ or G.Skill

largon · Oct 14, 2007

Grings said:
HiddenStupid said:

Additional question.... what is the most expensive PC3200 ram?

Click to expand...

probably mushkin redline, if you can even find any now

trt740 said:
Mushkin Redline

Redline?
Bah!

Mushkin Black Level II Hi Perf DDR3500
512MB/stick (not the "V2" or "special 2-2-2" stuff). Original Windond W942508BH-5 chips only.
The most coveted RAM ever. No competition.

mitsirfishi · Oct 15, 2007

ah good old bh5

top ddr stuff aswell as the samsung tccd they where great memory chips in there hayday

Lt_JWS · Oct 15, 2007

G.Skill

mitsirfishi · Oct 15, 2007

Lt_JWS said:
G.Skill

high 5

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