house brand ram?

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demighost

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• Feb 2, 2005

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well like title says i got a questions about the "house brand" ram. main one is will it work? and does it run stable. Im not an overclocker i do stock speeds only thing i oc is maybe the video card. i currently have 512kb of knigston ram but i wanna get a 1gb more. basically is it worth the money or will it die within months

 

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rams rarely die, it's solid state, just like a CPU, the things that die are the ones that's moving in your computer. so if it works out for you, grab another stick.

 

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• Feb 3, 2005

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yeah go ahead and get it.. but dont plan on overclcoking it ...

 

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well since i dont overclock it will be good? thanx for info ill be ordering some now

 

Xtreme Barton

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just make sure you get the timings and voltage as close as your other stick of ram .. you'll be better off..

 

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how can i find out the timings of my other ram? sorry for being so newb

 

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• Feb 3, 2005

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go to www.cpuid.com and download cpu-z. Run it, and go to the memory tab. The latency info will come up (most of the time anyway)

 

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• Feb 3, 2005

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It is likely that the "house brand" will have looser timming than your kingston.

Your kingston if probalbly something like 2.5-3-3-7 while the "house brand" may be 3-3-3-8 or even 3-4-4-9.

This doesn't mean you can't use the cheaper ram, it just means you will have to slow your timmings down which will hurt performance a bit.

Some more information about what you have now would be usefull, such as what kingston ram you have, or what FSB you are running.

 

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• Feb 3, 2005

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you have to be careful cause some of the house brand stuff (not all) can be 2nd grade chips that are reworked by a third party. although inexpensive they have a high failure rate..