08-10-2004, 14:00
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Buying memory
I need to buy 2 sticks of memory, 512mb a piece, I have £150. Any recommendations? I was looking at Geil Golden Dragon (budget) at around that price.
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08-10-2004, 14:06
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Re: Buying memory
He means RAM, not Flash memory.
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08-10-2004, 14:09
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Re: Buying memory
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Originally Posted by Bifta
I need to buy 2 sticks of memory, 512mb a piece, I have £150. Any recommendations? I was looking at Geil Golden Dragon (budget) at around that price.
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I buy all the memory I use to build systems from here and have NEVER had any back broken or dodgy.
http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.asp
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08-10-2004, 14:11
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Re: Buying memory
Crucial is just generic memory, I want something with a little bit more poke (if possible and I'm not paying 90 quid for 512mb for their 'ballistix' memory)
Edit: I was also thinking about Corsair XMS 3200, it's CAS 2 and around 70 quid for 512mb
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08-10-2004, 14:15
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Re: Buying memory
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He means RAM, not Flash memory.
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I knew that 
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08-10-2004, 14:20
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Re: Buying memory
Corsair 
Crucial is good.. but you won't get a major overclock.
Geil  (utter tripe, the sort of things OEM's will try to give you)
TwinMos is similar to Crucial, I've used it myself a few times.
My choice.. or something similar http://komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=302393&cks=PRL
I doubt you'd get XMS for £150.
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08-10-2004, 14:47
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Re: Buying memory
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Originally Posted by s1lv3r
Corsair
Crucial is good.. but you won't get a major overclock.
Geil (utter tripe, the sort of things OEM's will try to give you)
TwinMos is similar to Crucial, I've used it myself a few times.
My choice.. or something similar http://komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=302393&cks=PRL
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Geil isn't utter tripe at all, and it's nothing like the generic memory you'll end up with from an OEM, really not sure where you go that info from
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...nnel_Kits.html
As for Corsair XMS, I can get 2 x 512mb sticks for £155.68 (inc. VAT) from Aria.co.uk
Corsair 512MB XMS3200 DDR SDRAM
£66.25 exc, £77.84 inc.
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08-10-2004, 14:49
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Re: Buying memory
Go for that Aria deal.. sounds pretty good.
As far as the Geil goes.. that critisism is directed more at it's terrible record of compatability than it's performance. I tend to steer well clear of it.
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08-10-2004, 14:55
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Re: Buying memory
Virtually all Shuttle XPC 's  (fairly restricted example.. but important for me as an owner of one)
Fair play if you want to try the Geil out, it may well have improved since 2001-2002 when I first formulated my opinions on it.
You seem fairly made up on what you want.. did you really need to ask for recommendations?
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08-10-2004, 15:09
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Re: Buying memory
All I want to know is, what is the best memory I can get for around £150, whether that's Geil, Corsair, Kingston HyperX (too expensive I think), OCZ (also very expensive)
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08-10-2004, 15:38
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Re: Buying memory
From what I've browsed so far .. I'd say either standard latency (cas3) Corsair value at at a high clock. (3500+) or 3200 cas2 XMS which should clock to the same level as the value ram or higher..
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08-10-2004, 16:07
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Re: Buying memory
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Originally Posted by s1lv3r
Corsair
Crucial is good.. but you won't get a major overclock. |
Agreed... Crucial is very stable memory but doesn't have much of a rep with the overclockers.
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Geil (utter tripe, the sort of things OEM's will try to give you)
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 Geil utter tripe? I've used it in my past 4 system builds, PC3200 runs happily at 200mhz, 8-2-2-2 stable as anything.
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TwinMos is similar to Crucial, I've used it myself a few times.
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Twinmos is not similar to Crucial at all. It has a very bad rep, and as such alot of places don't stock it anymore. First few times I used it with no problems. Then things started to decline, such as every so often a stick wouldn't work in the dual packs... and the memory wouldn't attain its rated speed, etc.
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08-10-2004, 19:58
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Re: Buying memory
Bifta,
You might want to check out http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10...iew_ddr_group/
Slightly over budget but should give you an idea of the three manufacturers.
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