Tell me why I shouldn't buy this

[Smokey]

OK Guys,

I got bored at work and impulse bought a refurb MSI nforce2 board for 60$, which led me to down the dark road of building another PC that I don't need (yes, I know I have a problem). Anyhow, I'm looking for 2 sticks of memory to support this badboy and while I know better...I can't help staring at the HyperX 256mb DDR400 sticks!

CAS Latency 2 (2-2-2-6-1T) for 76$ a piece including shipping!?! (Newegg.com)

HELP ME!!! I've built many a PC, and I have my own pecking order with OCing memory (Corsair, Samsung, etc) but Kingston? This stuff looks too good to be true, so PLEASE: Tell me why I shouldn't buy this before I do something stupid!!!

<font color=purple><i>If I had a notch on my belt for every PC I'd destroyed, I'd have a really crappy looking belt</i></font color=purple>

 

[jlanka]

I've had good luck with Kingston

<i>It's always the one thing you never suspected.</i>

 

[zed201]

its good if you dont over clock it .. i have some Kingston pc2700
it locks up and shut down pretty quit when you do


<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by zed201 on 03/25/03 06:41 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Smokey]

Hmmm...maybe I should give it a shot! Theoretically, I really wouldn't be "overclocking" though, because it should support a 200 FSB at CAS2.

Thanks guys!

<font color=purple><i>If I had a notch on my belt for every PC I'd destroyed, I'd have a really crappy looking belt</i></font color=purple>

 

[Smokey]

BTW, I gave it to the darkside and bought 2 x HyperX 256mb PC2700 CAS Latency 2 (2-2-2-6-1T) for 46$ a piece w/shipping. The price is amazing for PC2700 at CAS 2.5 IMO (since Samsung and Crucial are still around 42$) so the fact that it's SPD is 2.0 is amazing! We'll see if these fockers can overclock, and I'll update with the results if anyone's interested.

<font color=purple><i>If I had a notch on my belt for every PC I'd destroyed, I'd have a really crappy looking belt</i></font color=purple>

 

[bum_jcrules]

The beginning of your last sentence makes you sound like Roman Maroney.

No movie quotes required... only the title of the movie.

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