Which memory P4C800E Deluxe?

[Louise]

I presently have two 512 dimms of Kingston Value Ram, CL3, installed. I
want to double the ram.

I know I could use Kingston ram but I'm looking for a better value/deal,
perhaps on ebay etc.

I'm under an impression that Corsair and Mushkin cause problems with
these boards.

What manufacturers would be safe to use and to mix with the Kingston. I
was looking a Crucial and at Elixir.

What brands have people had good and/or bad experiences with?

TIA

Louise

 

[Paul]

I presently have two 512 dimms of Kingston Value Ram, CL3, installed. I
want to double the ram.

I know I could use Kingston ram but I'm looking for a better value/deal,
perhaps on ebay etc.

I'm under an impression that Corsair and Mushkin cause problems with
these boards.

What manufacturers would be safe to use and to mix with the Kingston. I
was looking a Crucial and at Elixir.

What brands have people had good and/or bad experiences with?

TIA

Louise

Why not stick with a name brand and buy a product with a
warranty ? Sure, you could find some RAM on Ebay, but my
question would be, why is the seller selling it ?

http://www.kingston.com/company/warranty.asp

Will saving $30 a stick, make up for the hassle of dealing
with a swine on Ebay ?

Paul

 

[Louise]

Why not stick with a name brand and buy a product with a
warranty ? Sure, you could find some RAM on Ebay, but my
question would be, why is the seller selling it ?

http://www.kingston.com/company/warranty.asp

Will saving $30 a stick, make up for the hassle of dealing
with a swine on Ebay ?

Paul

well - not if the seller is a swine - certainly not.

However, I have both bought and sold on ebay and have had good to
excellent experiences. I believe when selling, I was "excellent".

Louise

 

[SgtMinor]

I presently have two 512 dimms of Kingston Value Ram, CL3, installed. I
want to double the ram.

I know I could use Kingston ram but I'm looking for a better value/deal,
perhaps on ebay etc.

I'm under an impression that Corsair and Mushkin cause problems with
these boards.

I sure hope not. I have 1 Gig of Corsair XMS memory on such a board.
Thus far no problems.
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-523&depa=1

What manufacturers would be safe to use and to mix with the Kingston. I
was looking a Crucial and at Elixir.

I've personally not experienced that problem but most 'experts' seem to
suggest matching, not mixing.

 

[Ender]

I presently have two 512 dimms of Kingston Value Ram, CL3, installed. I
want to double the ram.

I know I could use Kingston ram but I'm looking for a better value/deal,
perhaps on ebay etc.

I'm under an impression that Corsair and Mushkin cause problems with
these boards.

What manufacturers would be safe to use and to mix with the Kingston. I
was looking a Crucial and at Elixir.

What brands have people had good and/or bad experiences with?

TIA

Louise

I have never had bad luck with Crucial on any system. I had one
system that went down after a nearby lightning strike. One of the
casualties of that episode was that the Crucial memory failed.
Crucial did not even care when I dialed their 1-800 number and told
them it most likely failed due to the lightning strike, they just
replaced it without any hassle. Gotta love that kind of service.

On my PC4800E-Deluxe I strayed from Crucial and bought two 512meg
sticks of OCZ PC3500 (433M). It has worked flawlessly for me so I
would not hesitate to look at OCZ as well.

Regards,

Ender
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[Louise]

I presently have two 512 dimms of Kingston Value Ram, CL3, installed. I
want to double the ram.

I know I could use Kingston ram but I'm looking for a better value/deal,
perhaps on ebay etc.

I'm under an impression that Corsair and Mushkin cause problems with
these boards.

What manufacturers would be safe to use and to mix with the Kingston. I
was looking a Crucial and at Elixir.

What brands have people had good and/or bad experiences with?

TIA

Louise

I have never had bad luck with Crucial on any system. I had one
system that went down after a nearby lightning strike. One of the
casualties of that episode was that the Crucial memory failed.
Crucial did not even care when I dialed their 1-800 number and told
them it most likely failed due to the lightning strike, they just
replaced it without any hassle. Gotta love that kind of service.

On my PC4800E-Deluxe I strayed from Crucial and bought two 512meg
sticks of OCZ PC3500 (433M). It has worked flawlessly for me so I
would not hesitate to look at OCZ as well.

Regards,

Ender
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(OIIIIIIO)
[] []

Thanks for your recommendations.

Should I have any concerns about mixing 2 dimms of the Crucial, Corsair
or OCZ, with my present 2 dimms of Kingston Value? The Kingston has a
cl of 3 whereas some of the above are at 2.5 or even 2.

Louise

 

[Petra Grehling]

Should I have any concerns about mixing 2 dimms of the Crucial, Corsair
or OCZ, with my present 2 dimms of Kingston Value? The Kingston has a
cl of 3 whereas some of the above are at 2.5 or even 2.

Louise

It`s a good idea to share dimms from the same kind, if you don`t, the
slower timings are applied (with auto setting in bios). Dimms running on
fast timings will give you very little gain in performance (notjing to
go for).

Niclaas

 

[Silvertip]

With the Kingston having a cl of 3, you might be able to run some OCZ 4200
along side it without a performance loss. I have 2x512mb 4200 and they have
a 3-4-4-8 timing by spd. Right now I am running them at 1:1 with a fsb of
255.
Silvertip