Ram

so many different types!!!

[topr8]

i have some money to spend on upgrading my system and i'm going for more RAM, previously i've just gone down tottenham court road (street with many computer shops in london) and bought something over the counter without much thought,

but there seem to be so many different types of RAM and i haven't really been able to find a good site that just explains what the different types mean. ... and if i can mix differnet types of sticks??
are the top name manufacturers really better??

any suggestions

[lazerzubb]

[byte.com...]
and
[cyberwalker.net...]

[dstanovic]

Just go to Crucial Memory and you can't go wrong.

My Opinion

[brotherhood of LAN]

hey topr8,

Can't remember why, but I picked up somewhere that in Manchester, comptuer components go down pretty cheap. (do the manufacture them up there)?

Read it in a mag like computer shopper or something. I always buy a mag like that before I spend the readies.....because the prices change so much month by month and you have a multitude of companies ready to give u what sounds like a fast chip...but its made with tin foil

Wise by posting here first! :)

[caine]

you can get cheap generic ram 512mb 133 spec, very cheap, last time i bought it, it was £22 a stick.

Though i moved to Crucial at the end of last year 256mb PC2100 DDR266 with ECC = £44, prices are not that far off now a days. Heartily recommend, as the cheaper ram, can be rubbish, as in your computer will crash once in a blue moon, and ain't windows, its not a sticking hard disk, hence the ram refresh rate drops below critical and it stalls. So the better quality ram, though more expensive, no problems with it.

Hey you can always buy a 64kb bubble ram pcb for a GE industrial control of me for £1350.00, sounds mad, still sell them though (maybe one a year).