What is your favourite brand? Why?

[Treppiede]

Hi guys,
I currently have a cheap SDRAM module equipped with 256Mb of NEC chips which cannot handle any sort of BIOS tune-up that has influence on the RAM speed... It's time to change, and I am thinking about buying a 512Mb module CAS 2 PC-133 (or more... PC150?)... I have an ASUS CUSL-2C and one of those "EB" P!!!s that use a 133MHz FSB... (I am planning to do some heavy overclocking - I need GOOD GOOD memory!!!)
What brand should I get guys? Why sould I get that brand?
Please share with me your opinions and help me make the right decision...

Thnx

Treppiede

PS=I haven't had the time lately to keep up with the SDRAM evolution... what is this PC150 that I see on pricewatch.com? should I consider it? what's the difference with PC133... only the bus speed that can handle? thnx

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[Arrow]

PC150 is basically RAM that's been tested capable of supporting 150mhz, analogous to how PC133 is tested capable of support 133mhz.
I recommend Crucial.com's RAM - out of all my experience, they're the cheapest in good quality RAM. They tend to have very high overclockability.

Rob
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[upec]

I agree Crucial makes great memory.

 

[Treppiede]

...thnx guys, I always thought Crucial was a candidate...

...anybody else...?


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[Guest]

Did anyone mention Crucial!

I recommend it.


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[flamethrower205]

I think we forgot to mention Crucial.

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[Treppiede]

Well guys... you convinced me, and here I am on another window browsing Crucial.com pages... but guess what!
It seems they don't make a SDRAM module PC-133 512Mb CAS 2!!! Please reply this thread and tell me that I am wrong...
I cannot find anything else that SDRAM 512Mb modules CAS 3...
Any other advise?

thnx again...

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[lhgpoobaa]

kingmax is also pretty good.

they have these 256Mb PC150 modules that are so small and cute!

reasons?
affordable, always overclockable, and readily available in australia.

cept for a little while with my new mobo...
was trying to work out why it was dropping out on me while doing 150 @ cas 2,2,2. eventually worked out the old mobo's 3.3V line was set to 3.56! so i upped the voltage by 5% using a jumper and all was fine again
p.s. official specs for PC150 are cas3,3,2.
and im doing 2,2,2,5, 4 way interleave. very hard mem settings

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[Overfloating]

Yeah yeah everyone is such big supporters of crucial. I agree that it is great ram for a great price. But for the overclocking mind no one can touch Corsair. Sure you gotta pay a few extra bucks but if you want the best for ocing no one beats it. Also they offer Cas 2 512 sticks. For the average user go with Crucial, for heavy ocing go with Corsair.

 

[Guest]

I would recomend PNY www.PNY.com Read all about them also go to a benchmarking site like www.the-labs.com to see what they are doing and if not thier try another benchmark site

 

[Treppiede]

uhm... thnx to you too labplant1, but I used to work in the Tech dept of a big stupid computer company known as C***USA... and trust me, PNY is good for a home user... nothing more... unless they've pulled out new modules in the past two weeks... I also checked out Corsair.com... they got the memory I am looking for, now I am undecided whether to get the PC150 512Mb CAS 3 (or CAS 2 @ PC133) or go for the PC133 CAS 2... what if they are the same damn module? *SIGH* I can't sleep... ;o)

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[Guest]

That last post presents a good question...
Are you more likely to get a PC150 512Mb CAS 3 module to run at CAS 2 or a PC133 CAS 2 to module to run at 150MHz...I don't know which is more likely, but I bet if you buy the Corsair you'll have no problem doing either.
I'd go with the PC133 CAS 2 and try to get is to 150Mhz, because 133Mhz CAS 2 is faster than 150Mhz CAS 3, in the event your venture fails.

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[Overfloating]

I will guarantee the you can get PC 133 Cas 2 Corsair sticks running at PC 150 with no trouble at all. I have 2, 256 meg sticks Cas 2 PC 133 running at PC 150 with no problems at all. I would be running higher but my damn KT133 chipset doesn't like my FSB to be over 112.

 

[Overfloating]

oh BTW the ram is running Turbo and 4 way interleave.

 

[bum_jcrules]

CL2/CAS2 by Micron is probably your best bet. Corsair is also a good choice. Either way you FSB will be the bottleneck not the memory if you try to overclock the entire system.

I say use the Micron.

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[Crashman]

Get any brand you want that's advertised as being PC150 Cas2. Then if it won't run right, send it back. I bet you wish you had an E instead of an EB right now.

Back to you Tom...