What is considered really good PC133 memory?

[Helevitia]

Anand always recommends Corsair(os soemthing like that). What do you folks think?

Dave

[Brian R.]

I usually buy Mushkin.
http://www.mushkin.com/cgi-bin/Mushk...roducts/990489

Crucial is very good also.

See: http://bxboards.com/pc133/

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[Helevitia]

Thanks for the links Brian. After reading a couple of reviews, it looks like the Mushkin memory you pointed me to is of very high quality and overclocks well. I will be getting http://www.mushkin.com/cgi-bin/Mushk...roducts/990496 unless someone objects

Dave

[Helevitia]

Does anyone know hwere I can pick up the above memory cheaper? They are selling for $350 for two 128MB DIMMS.

Dave

[cjolley]

also look here...
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1213

I just got a single stick 256 meg NEC that can make 150mz
chuck

[Pace]

Does that mean you are at 975Mhz Chuck?

Also some RAM questions of my own:
What is 222 RAM? CAS2 and what else?
Would RAM be affected by air travel (inc customs/X-rays)?

Paul.

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[Helevitia]

OK, I ordered the memory directly from Mushkin. I also asked "Mike" some questions since it was not clear on the website. I asked him why there were no 256MB PC133 High Quality DIMM's. He told me that they can't get the quality out of the higher memory yet. He says that the 256MB modules will only safely do CAS3. He expected the 256MB modules with CAS2 to be available sometime down the road, maybe 6 months or later. He said you should always go 128MB for now until they get the quality better on the higher memory. And just in case it isn't clear, he siad that all manufactures are having the same problems. Just passing on the info

Dave

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[giskard]

What about Kingmax TinyBGA ram? Does anyone have any experience with that flavour of memory? Does it overclock well?

Cheers,

G

[cjolley]

Pace,
I can run 975, with a 0.1v boost, stable...
EXCEPT UT !?

I have no idea why - benchmarks, seti, etc all run fine, but not UT.

chuck
still at a meazly 923

[moreau]

Check out this thread: http://www.storagereview.com/welcome...ML/003934.html

[Brian R.]

Chuck - When you solve your UT problem, let me know. I have the same problem. Everything is stable except UT at 124 MHz fsb. I have a feeling the culprit is the HPT66 controller.

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[Alfie]

Memory thats rarely mentioned,but is quite good is PNY,you know the memory you see everywhere(Walmart,Staples,BestBuy,etc.)
Here's a review and a good study on available memory.
http://www.overclockin.com/reviews/R...oundup2-3.html

Ther's a total of 3 memory roundups,so have a look around!


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[DarkSyd]

Maybe the boys at Mushkin should take a tour of the Infineon fab....
http://www.infineon.com/products/memory/index.htm

[Helevitia]

Just to add more info, After calling Mushkin and talking with "Mike" I was very pleased with there level of service. After talking with them, I ordered the memory at 4:30PM CST there time and they already had the memory shipped and the tracking # to me within 2 hours. It shipped that day! I was so pleased that I sent a quick note to some email alias about how pleased I was and to keep up the good work. To my astonishment, Bill Mushkin(I'm assuming the owner) sent me an email later that night thanking me. What was really amazing was the fact that the email arrived to me at 10:00pm which means that it was 11:00pm his time. Damn! I sound like a marketing Sicko. I just like to give credit where credit is due.

Regarding the UT issue. Go read the article in the second post pointing to BXBoards. It talks about UT and the fact they feel there are stability issues with UT still and the way they like to test memory is to run UT. They say that if UT passes the tests than the memory must be good

Sorry for the long post.

Dave

[moreau]

Helevitia:

Thanks for the info about Mushkin. I've always heard good things about their product, and I will consider purchasing from them in the future.

I still push Crucial to my friends. They too are very good, service wise. I had some questions that they were more than helpful with, and even had a regional marketing director call me! No joke!

Check out my link above for some stories and info, and remember, with memory, you might just get what you pay for!