Which memory mod works best?

[Sky]

I need to buy 64mb SDRAM. Should I get the cheap modules or get the name brand type, which is a hugh price difference. What can go wrong with the cheap type? How many of you have bought the cheap ones and are still working?

[DavidX]

I've always bought the cheap ones and never regretted it (yet!). But then again, maybe I've just been lucky. With regard to SDRAM, I did make sure it bore the 'PC100' label, that it was CAS2, and checked that it genuinely met those criteria.

With the name brands you do feel safer on quality (correct number of layers to the PCB, short traces, etc) and it is probably far more likely to be stable if you plan on overclocking. But then, I don't overclock so that doesn't really worry me.

[Sky]

Thanks Davidx

I don't plan on oc'ing either. I went ahead and ordered some cheap SDRAM.

[BBA]

I bought a cheap 32M dimm back before the 100Mhz thing came out. When I decided to eventually go to the BH6 I bought a 64M PC100 name brand dimm to use in anticipation, and once I got the BH6, I was happy that they both worked fine at 100Mhz.

I never could get 103 or 112Mhz with those dimms together.

Well, close to a year later, the PC started having memory problems, the 64M name brand dimm went bad!

So I used the 32M no name non PC 100 or PC anything ram, it worked well at 100Mhz, it would even work well at 124Mhz!


So whats the moral of the story? You get lucky or you dont!

I have since bought the cheapest ram I can find, and I have 192M right now that works fine at 124 and makes an occasional jump to 133 for testing.

BBA