Kingston Memories.

[junnyeen]

Well im tinking of buying a new memory

I'm low on budget. T_T

well i need a 1 gig and i was looking over at PCVONLINE.COM since i plan buying from there. This is the stick im looking at

Kingston 1 GB ValueRam DDR2 667 KVR667D2N5/1G

anyone think this is worth it... its at a $129.00 canadian right now and i dont know if i should get it cause it jacked up by like 10% of what it used to cost. If i shoud get another 1G memory which company and one... and why its better.

 

[t53186]

I'm using that exact ram on my intel 975xbx with a Pentiumd940 with no problems. I have run the d940 OC'd at 3.9ghz without a hickup. Always had no problems with Kingston. By the way here in the US the price has gone up about $40 in less than a month.

 

[Mousemonkey]

It would cost more than that in the U.K dude so go for it, I use Kingston DDR400 Value in my gaming rig and it does just fine.

 

[Mondoman]

Yes, Kingston's is one of the best quality "value" lines.

 

[junnyeen]

thnx guys. btw i was checking again on pcvonline.com and i foudn this http://pcvonline.com/products.aspx?cat=Memory&sub=DDR2%20Memory&sub2=

... why is the 2x512 mb more expensive than the 1gb memory... doesnt the 2x512 take up more room... is it cause you get that extra 24mb >.> i dont get it ._.

 

[BustedSony]

thnx guys. btw i was checking again on pcvonline.com and i foudn this http://pcvonline.com/products.aspx?cat=Memory&sub=DDR2%20Memory&sub2=

... why is the 2x512 mb more expensive than the 1gb memory... doesnt the 2x512 take up more room... is it cause you get that extra 24mb >.> i dont get it ._.

They're the same size. Using two sticks interleaved gives twice the bandwidth over just one stick. You would see some improvement in performance in certain situations. Go for two sticks if you can.

 

[Mousemonkey]

I can only assume it's less the cost of the PCB ie 512 on a PCB takes the same amount of room as 1GB on the same size of PCB 8)

 

[Mousemonkey]

Dude, makes more sense than my ill informed theory :lol:

 

[jimw428]

thnx guys. btw i was checking again on pcvonline.com and i foudn this http://pcvonline.com/products.aspx?cat=Memory&sub=DDR2%20Memory&sub2=

... why is the 2x512 mb more expensive than the 1gb memory... doesnt the 2x512 take up more room... is it cause you get that extra 24mb >.> i dont get it ._.

Twice as many components to be placed on PCB's and flow soldered, 2 x PCB's and twice as much testing and handling.

 

[BustedSony]

Dude, makes more sense than my ill informed theory :lol:

The extra cost for the same size of memory is simply to pay for factory matching of the two Dimms. You can buy two 512s separately but they may have different skew rates and other characteristics which limit them from giving the best performance when pushed. On the other hand a set of matched dimms can often be cheaper than buying two separately, particularly for high-end memory. I have both Samsung and Kingston cheap DDR2, and they work well, even overclocked. However when I increased the memory size in the P4 and bought new matched high-end memory for the Conroe the Kingston and Samsung were put aside just for testing pruposes etc.

 

[BustedSony]

thnx guys. btw i was checking again on pcvonline.com and i foudn this http://pcvonline.com/products.aspx?cat=Memory&sub=DDR2%20Memory&sub2=

... why is the 2x512 mb more expensive than the 1gb memory... doesnt the 2x512 take up more room... is it cause you get that extra 24mb >.> i dont get it ._.

Twice as many components to be placed on PCB's and flow soldered, 2 x PCB's and twice as much testing and handling.

That's not really the issue for memory. Likewise the best price point for hard drives, 320 gigs, is more a matter of market forces than manufacturing costs. Until recently 512 Meg memory could work at lower latencies than 1Gig and 2Gig, thus increasing their value, but new chips have eliminated that advantage.