stiler83

Mushkin & Corsair are is Crucial Memory. They are owned by Crucial, it is just their peformance arm of the company. The modulas that are able to run at higher speeds are used and branded as one of the above companies.

[Edited by stiler83 - 11/2/2003 4:55:30 PM]

MAFFA

My new pc is only coming with 256Mb of DDR RAM. I have been advised to do this & have been looking around for some. My motherboard will support

2 x 184 pin DIMM
1.0GB PC2100/1600 non-ECC DDR SDRAM memory

I've looked around and an average price for memory is:

128Mb - £17.00
256Mb - £31.00
512Mb - £54.00

Now i'd guess that i'd be better off getting a 512Mb card so that if I want to upgrade to 1Gb then I can, but I have a few questions:

1) Can the 512Mb go along side the 256Mb or should I just replace it?
2) Does it matter if you have two different makes of memory?
3) Do different makes vary in performance at all or are they all pretty much alike?
3) Where can you get it at a good price? I was looking at the memory on www.crystech.co.uk. I also had a flick around e-bay but you never can tell on there really.

Thanks

MAFFA

Mr.Cookie

http://www.crucial.com

stiler83

Try http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.asp
Crucial is the best memory there is.
All my machines run crucial as do any I build for my clients.
+shipping is free and next day.

Edited to say..
Someone beat me to it as I was tying the above...


[Edited by stiler83 - 11/2/2003 11:47:19 AM]

kamikaze

crucial as well
free delivery is good

GialloEvoII

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mr-white

crucial have nice stable memory, you cant fault em on that and their customer services but if you looking for quick overclockable memory there is better on the market.

off the top of my head these are the main ones : -

mushkin
twinmoss
crucial
cosair
kingston
ocz
geil

1) Can the 512Mb go along side the 256Mb or should I just replace it?

yes you can run them both together, id suggest having the 512mb in dimm 1.

2) Does it matter if you have two different makes of memory?

yes and no. sometimes they can work fine other times you'd get no end of errors. it really just depends on the 2 sticks of mem.

3) Do different makes vary in performance at all or are they all pretty much alike?

if you buy all the same speed sticks of mem you shouldnt really notice any diff. id personally stay away from generic memory, its cheap but unreliable

3) Where can you get it at a good price? I was looking at the memory on www.crystech.co.uk. I also had a flick around e-bay but you never can tell on there really.

try purschasing directly from the manufacturer as it should be cheaper and they more likely to replace it if somin was to go wrong.

MW

Daz34

http://www.pc-memory-upgrade.co.uk/

Fatman

For plain vanilla memory, I buy from Crucial (linked above). For anything 'interesting' and intended for O/C-ing, I buy Corsair chips from Overclockers UK.

ChrisB

IMO, can't wrong with Crucial for solid results and first class service.

If you're into overclocking and tweaking the last ounce of speed out of PC then the expensive stuff OC et all sell is more likely to be your thing.

Mr.Cookie

i used to use corsair xms3500 in this machine at mo but for most users it's pointless, there's probably a few people one here that understand memory timings etc, crucials 3200 will do a 200 fsb which is as far as the basic overclockers go.
Like has all ready be said it's well priced, good spec and free delivery (although postal strike is going to slow it up at the mo ) also if your a first time buyer there is a 10 percent off offer search here for the code needed someone posted it

Si

Mr.Cookie

Maffa what mother board is it just noticed the pc2100 mem bit

mr-white

i managed to get my crucial pc2700 to work @ 180mhz fsb and my OCZ pc4000 @ 192mhz fsb

some memory you can push up as far as 220mhz (440mhz) fsb

MW


[Edited by mr-white - 11/2/2003 2:02:23 PM]

[Edited by mr-white - 11/2/2003 3:43:00 PM]

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

Crucial is always, always my first port of call for standard memory.

For the exotic stuff, I tend to stick to Corsair. I have 2 Gb of PC4000(DDR500) in my rig currently running 258mhz/DDR516 with only 2.65 volts

Cheers,

Nick

MAFFA

Thanks a lot for the help guys & especially Mr White for answering all my questions. In answer to your question the motherboard is a ASUS A7N266-VMSE/LAN DDR Motherboard. Now I know that this isn't the most up-to-date jobby but i'm getting it very cheap. I'm upgrading from a Pentium 1 with a 1Gb Hard drive to an Athlon XP2400 with an 80Gb Hard drive so to be honest i'm not going to moan at it It'll probably scare me LOL.

I'm no computer expert but this is a good place to start from & i've already learn't more in the last few days than I have in my entire life about memory, hard drives, graphics cards etc...

I'm only really going to use it for digital video editing & surfing the net anyway

I'll take a peak at Crucial, although i've noticed a few of the manufacturers don't go less than 2700 nowadays!

Thanks again for all the help.

MAFFA

p.s. what is overclocking? Guessing from what i've seen & leart that the clock speed is the 2100, 2700, 3000 etc... & you just put memory in that is faster than recommended? Shot in the dark, but hey i'm still learning LOL

MAFFA

Hey thanks for that crucial website

Thought i'd go overboard and get the full 1Gb of memory Well with the 5% discount after finding the code (cheers for that ) it cost £105 inc VAT & delivery so can't complain

I got two of these http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/Part...64Z265&cat=RAM

So now I have an unused 256Mb DDR memory module

Thanks again

MAFFA

Mr.Cookie

DDR memory is doouble date rate memory meaning it runs at twice the fbs (front serial bus) which is used in conjunction with the clock multiplier to give you your cpu speed i.e

a cpu running on a 100mhz fsb with a multiplier of 10 would be running at 1000mhz the memory would be running at 200

my cpu is 1830mhz (fsb of 166 and a multiplier of 11) my memory runs at 333mhz (2 times 166)

if i overclock my cpu i would raise the fsb, for arguments sake will pretend i've got an asus a7n8x motherboard which my chip would happily do a 200mhz fsb
Now 200 times 11 is 2200 an increase of 400mhz on processing power or a 22 percent increase not bad for free
Problem is my memory now has to run at 400mhz which is fine for 3200 and above but not for anything lower (although you can get lucky)
Also you have to be careful as increase fsb has an effect on pci, agp and ide bus (although some board lock these.

All as i understand it, plenty more knowledgale people than me on here

Si

MAFFA

And in idiot terms what does all that mean in relation to me...or are you just showing off LOL

MAFFA

Mr.Cookie

basically good memory is good memory if you know what your doing, but wasted if you don't

Si
Oh and ps ner

mr-white

all nforce2 mobos lock their fsb to the cpu so you wont have any probs with overlocking the pci and agp buses when you up the fsb. older mobos are not locked so you were only able to push the fsb to 140/150 before you started getting errors which were normally caused by sound, gfx and network cards

MW

MAFFA

Now you're definately showing off WTF LOL