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....
mark
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. Quality stuff, never had a memory stick failing and good service. Once I had an unopened box with some Crucial memory (purchased almost a year before) and asked if I could exchange it for a different set. They responded quickly and allowed me to exchange the memory no questions asked.
Regards, Patrick
On 20/02/13 14:38, 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. Quality stuff, never had a memory stick failing and good service. Once I had an unopened box with some Crucial memory (purchased almost a year before) and asked if I could exchange it for a different set. They responded quickly and allowed me to exchange the memory no questions asked.
Regards, Patrick
Seconded - I was just going to post exactly the same thing. I have used Crucial memory and SSD for as long as I can remember and have never had a single failure
On 20/02/13 14:38, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 02/20/2013 02:57
PM, m.roth@5-cent.uswrote:
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.
Quality stuff, never had a memory stick failing and good service. Once I had an unopened box with some Crucial memory (purchased almost a year before) and asked if I could exchange it for a different set. They responded quickly and allowed me to exchange the memory no questions asked. Regards, Patrick
Seconded - I was just going to post exactly
the same thing. I have
used Crucial memory and SSD for as long as I
can remember and have never
had a single failure
I was also
going to mention that I've had great luck with OCZ and Kingston. Kingston definitely has problems with their flash drives, but their memory is rock solid.
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:40:01 +0000 Ian Stirling ian@hursley.ibm.com wrote:
On 20/02/13 14:38, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 02/20/2013 02:57 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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I like Crucial. Quality stuff, never had a memory stick failing and good service. Once I had an unopened box with some Crucial memory (purchased almost a year before) and asked if I could exchange it for a different set. They responded quickly and allowed me to exchange the memory no questions asked.
Regards, Patrick
Seconded - I was just going to post exactly the same thing. I have used Crucial memory and SSD for as long as I can remember and have never had a single failure
Running Crucial RAM here as well never had any problems. :-).
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.
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.
mark
On 2/20/2013 12:57 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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?
I had these problems with DDR2 stuff in the core2 generation of processors, with the 3 and 4 series chipsets (P45, H3x, etc). I don't recall the specific Ballistix, but it was supposedly faster (higher clock rate and lower CAS timing) than the 'standard' ram for those chips. It failed erratically, after a year+ of stable running at the standard speeds, but in two different cases (different systems, boards, and memory) it would pass a 24 hour memtest even when running at 'overclock' rates (I test at conservative overclock speeds as well as normal, then run at stock speeds, presuming this gives me good margins).
John R Pierce wrote:
On 2/20/2013 12:57 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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?
I had these problems with DDR2 stuff in the core2 generation of processors, with the 3 and 4 series chipsets (P45, H3x, etc). I don't recall the specific Ballistix, but it was supposedly faster (higher clock rate and lower CAS timing) than the 'standard' ram for those chips. It failed erratically, after a year+ of stable running at the standard speeds, but in two different cases (different systems, boards, and memory) it would pass a 24 hour memtest even when running at 'overclock' rates (I test at conservative overclock speeds as well as normal, then run at stock speeds, presuming this gives me good margins).
Ok.... I've got a Core I-3, and the least expensive of the Ballistix is rated as "certified" by Gigabyte, the manufacturer of the board I bought, for this board. So, hopefully, this will work....
Thanks muchly for the info.
On 2/20/2013 3:43 PM, 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.
I've been lucky enough to not have many issues with memory. Most of the failures I deal with are hard drives, power supplies, and motherboards.
I have used Corsair, Kingston, G.Skill and OCZ memory.
On 02/20/2013 03:01 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 2/20/2013 3:43 PM, 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.
I've been lucky enough to not have many issues with memory. Most of the failures I deal with are hard drives, power supplies, and motherboards.
I have used Corsair, Kingston, G.Skill and OCZ memory.
I use Corsair Vengeance RAM in almost everything I build.
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