Are 2nd party RAM any good?

[pellel]

I just wonder what your opinions and experiences are of RAM-modules that are sold under an unknown brand name, but the memory chips on the modules are well known brands like Micron, Samsung etc.

Are these 2nd party manufacturers’ modules any good or should one go for the RAM-modules that have the same well known chips and in addition are sold under well known brand names like Micron’s Crucial etc. (and cost more)?

 

[Guest]

Id say the chip is the most important part. What you usually get wuith Crucial micron etc is lifetime warranty.

Brent will enlight you further =Þ

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[BrentUnitedMem]

They are called third-party modules because the manufacturers are not necessarily directly involved in transactions with the chip manufacturers. (One of two parties for some reason becomes "third-party")

Anycase, the long and short of it is that there are many good third-party manufacturers out there, but there are a few that aren't. Knowing your source is the best way to protect yourself from a vendor selling low-quality or bad modules.

Kingston and Crucial for example are reputable sources.

Third party modules, for various reasons, have a higher percentage of returns than major brand modules manufactured by the maker of the chips- these modules are called major original. For this reason, major original modules are more valuable than third-party modules.

An interesting observation:
If a major-original module is not working in a particular system, most people blame the system.
If a third-party module is not working in a particular system, most people blame the module.

Things to look out for when purchasing third party modules:
1. Quality PCB design
2. No more than two different date codes per module.
Different date-codes and different die-revisions, even the same brand, are different chips.
Third-party manufacturers do not always follow this. Major manufacturers, it's pretty much a rule.

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[BrentUnitedMem]

Am I soo predictable? haha!

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