Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: Re: Memory

[quote name="Motherhead"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]When I used to build systems regularly, crucial.com was the best place to get RAM. Is this still the case? Where do you buy RAM, MH? ICJ[/quote] I've also been using Crucial/Micron since forever, they are still producing great quality memory. My laptops and my Macs are all stuffed with Crucial and it's all we use at work. Though, for a couple of 1GB sticks of DDR400 they <a href="http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=ASUS%2B+Motherboards&mfr=ASUS&tabid=AM&model=A8N-SLI+Premium&submit=Go" target="new">aren't cheap</a>. For the<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145587" target="new"> same money</a> I went with Corsair. I've had nothing but good experiences with them as well. Also, it looks cooler. Shitty RAM will fuck with you in insidious ways, avoid it. More importantly, I also wouldn't recommend you spend $300-400 on super high-freq/low-latency RAM that will perform nearly the same as quality value RAM at default timings. (Yes, I learned that the hard way.) I recommend branded memory for quality alone. Corsair is great, but there is no reason to buy the $450 laser light show model. Well, unless you are really into serious overclocking and cooling the living shit out of your handmade gandalf shaped lucite case and arguing your bench results at the arstech forums. Otherwise, it's a bullshit waste. When buying RAM I usually hit pricegrabber, choose an average (based on places I am positive will not fuck me) and then bounce that off the prices of the shops near me. I have used newegg and <a href="http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Home.jsp" target="new">zipzoomfly</a> for a lot of things.[/quote]