John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/20/2013 6:38 AM, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 02/20/2013 02:57 PM,m.roth@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.
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