RDRAM question, please.

[Pack'nHeat]

If you type in PC1066 256MB at PriceWatch, you will see Kingston for $125. I can deal with that price. If you scroll to the bottom of that page, you will see Samsung for $178. :eek: Then, just below it, it has Corsair for $210, but it's labeled as Samsung with heatspreader. :confused: Does Corsair make Samsung?
If you type in just i850E, you will see on the first page Corsair, (PC800), but labeled as Corsair memory.

Are we talking about 2 RDRAM makers or 3?

I recently read a DDR270, (or 333) review and Corsair was top dog on O/Cing, and Kingston was the lowest on the pole.

So, if it's the low priced Kingston and the mighty high Corsair to choose from, with boards like the GA-8IHXP that top out around 156MHz FSB, (or so I read from an owners post), is the high priced, highly overclockable Corsair needed?
Thanks folks :)

Ps: Still would like any gripes or praises on any of the i850E boards.

[mickey_hwoarang]

the price difference could be because the corshair modules are 232 pin 32bit pc 1066 compared to it's Kingston counterpart which is 184 pin 16 bit pc 1066... I'm not sure but I think Corsair is like a third party or like a reseller for samsung, kind of like Asus... Because there's no way you can get it direct from the manufacturers, they don't sell it to consumers, they only sell it to resellers. It would be ALOT cheaper if you get it direct.

[BipolarBill]

Kingston makes their own RAM chips and RAM sticks. So does Crucial (Micron). Samsung does too. All three sell their chips to 3rd-party memory makers like Corsair, Mushkin and PNY. Implementation is everything. Corsair and Mushkin mount and optimize the chips as well and sometimes better than the OEMs. Hence the premium.