John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/20/2013 6:38 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> On 02/20/2013 02:57 PM,m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> >So, I'm rebuilding my system at home. Any recommendations or warnings >>> >about brands of memory? Googling around, I see brands I've >>> never*heard* >>> >of.... >> I like Crucial. > > I used to use Crucial. Then I had a bunch of hard-to-diagnose issues > with different systems that finally tracked down to various 'high end' > Crucial Ballistix memories. Switched to Corsair for desktop stuff, > haven't had any problems. Most of my servers have either OEM brand > (HP, Dell, IBM) memory (often it turns out to be Hyundai or Samsung), or > Kingston. Let me throw one back: if I can avoid it, I *really* don't want Hynix. We had DIMM problems about two years ago in high-end servers... one from Dell, one from Penguin, and one from Sun, and ALL THREE had, um, I think they were 8G Hynix. Had it been one server OEM, I'd figure they'd gotten a bad batch; with three different OEMs, I figure Hynix was having q/a/q/c problems. I'm looking at something called "Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600) CL9 Dual Channel". Was this the type that you had problems with, John? So far, it looks like Crucial, with the most votes, and the price is reasonable (though I would have liked ECC, I don't want to pay another $30.) Thanks to all who responded. mark