Which RAM will you pick Corsair, Micron/Crucial, Mushkin

[Warthog]

Crucial - they do good with quality and price.

Warthog

[tuando]

Hi everyone,

If it were you which of the following SDRAM will you pick:
- CORSAIR 256 MB 32X64 PC 133 SDRAM CAS2 $306
- MICRON 256 DIMM PC133 SDRAM CL2 (CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY) $299
- MUSHKIN High Perf. REV.2 PC133 222 $377.

Any advice and suggestion is greatly appreciated.

My sys:

ABIT KT7-RAID
TBIRDS 800
2X 30GB IBM 75GXP ATA100
32 MB ELSA SYNERGY III
INTEL ETHEREXPRESS PRO100+ PCI
SOUNDBLASTER LIVE
PYRO PRO DV CARD
56K SUPRAEXPRESS
SUPER MICRO SC750A CASE

[codybear]

all will serve your purpose
and for the dollar you will see little or no difference


[This message has been edited by codybear (edited 10-27-2000).]

[tuando]

Hi everyone,

Many thanks to all of you who reply to my posting "Which RAM will you pick, Corsair, Micron/Crucial, Mushkin...".
It turns out that Mushkins wins the vote, 26 votes (24 REV2 222 and 2 PC150 HSDRAM 232) against 15 Crucial and 3 Corsair respectively (8 forums, 44 answers).

Which one will win your vote in this case 256MB Mushkin High Perf REV2 PC133 222 (Single Module) or 2Pack PC150 128mb Enhanced HSDRAM 232,

Thanks in advance for your time and comments.

[shady]

Mushkin single 256 module - the best RAM

[daveleau]

Mushkin is the best OCer right now. I would go with it. I wish I had it myself.
dave

[OuTpaTienT]

I have 256MB CORSAIR pc100 in my Abit/KA7. I've been able to run it as high as 125mhz. Probably would go higher, I think some other components don't like the high speed bus.

[harleysdad]

Corsair memory usually tests the best in overclocking. It is rumored they use a couple of more pcb layers. No circuits, just grounding layers. It shows, when you start pumping up the volume.

[unknownsoldier]

I use 2 128Mb modules of Mushkin P133 H-SDRAM REV2. Two 128Mb modules run faster than one 256Mb module.

REV.2 is said to easily go up to 143Mhz, and possibly even up to 166Mhz.

According to www.hardwarecentral.com, (http://www.hardwarecentral.com,) PC150 memory at Latency-3 can't really be utilized by most processors. Especially a sub-gigahertz processor.

[OPPAINTER]

2 sticks 128 Mushkin

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Abit KT7 Raid T-bird 950@1208,105x11.5, 2xIBM 75GXP 15g @ raid-0, 103b1 Uz Bios, 2.07v,~23cto~45c,ALPHA PAL-6035
2x 128 Mushkin REV2
ELSA GeFORCE-2 GTS

[Ygor]

A couple years ago I saw a ram torture test in overclocking. Corsair came out on top then, but these things are subject to change w/o notice, and could vary slightly from batch to batch.

Until I see another test/review like that, I'd probably go with Corsair if I was in that high a market.

[Mungla]

My vote goes for the Mushkin HP Rev2 - 128meg sticks.

I had a processor (P3-700) at one point that would overclock to 150+fsb, so I bought the Muskin just for this. In my case, I was able to overclock my FSB up to 150fsb (video card would lock up any higher, danged V550) at CAS222!

As far as performance goes, I rememember Sisoft Sandra spitting out memory benchmarks at 400 MB/s.

[OPPAINTER]

Heres my Sandra scorces running my Mushkin at 150

ALU-575

FPU-658

[Mungla]

That sounds about right, I didn't remember my exact benchmark so I just posted 400MB/s. I'm running a P3-700E at 124fsb right now: here's a picture.

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