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- Dec 23, 2000
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- Las Vegas Nevada
Hey all, I dont often post in the memory section cause I always know what im buying when it comes to memory...Crucial. I have built many many systems in the past and all of them have had Crucial memory in them and this is why...
Price - Crucial memory of course is sold directly by Crucial themselves, they make it they sell it...there is no middle man at all. And because most of thier business is conducted online they are able to bring those cost savings to the consumer.
Warrenty - Lifetime warrenty and the ability to cross-ship if you absolutely need memory fast. I have only ever had 1 bad module of Crucial and that was my powersupply dying and kicking a rather hefty amount of voltage at a few things in my computer, needless to say it took a motherboard, memory, and a videocard with it. This is a reason I love Crucial's warrenty...they sent me out another module fed-ex and when I got it it worked like a champ of course then I sent my defective one back no questions asked. NICE.
Stability - Crucial memory is usually clocked in CAS a little more relaxed when compared to other memory. But if you can find someone that can tell the difference between 2 / 2.5 / 3 Cas ratings while using the PC I will be completely impressed. Synthetic benchmarks like sandra are the only way to really tell the difference in Cas, so on this note I could care less, give me the stability!
Overclocking - Crucial memory overclocks VERY WELL. Yes I know it voids the warrenty, but when Im spending so little on the most stable memory out there I could care less.
Now, I spent a grand total of $65 on my 512MB Crucial PC2700 DDR 333mhz memory at newegg.com and it is rated at CAS 2.5 / 7-3-3. What I got out of this memory is impressive for the money! The furthest I can push it overclocked is 390Mhz!! Yes completely stable at 390mhz CAS 2.5 7-3-3. Not too bad for $65 memory! Once I do the big plunge into the world of the 865PE chipset I will order myself a pair of 512MB Crucial PC3200 DDR 400mhz memory modules and clock em up as far as they can go, right now they are $85 a piece but will drop by the time I get em.
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know my history with Crucial and how much I recommend them. Here is a bench from sisoft sandra 9.44 while overclocked to 150 FSB on my P4 2.4Ghz C1 stepping chip. (my 24/7 overclock and rock stable).
Price - Crucial memory of course is sold directly by Crucial themselves, they make it they sell it...there is no middle man at all. And because most of thier business is conducted online they are able to bring those cost savings to the consumer.
Warrenty - Lifetime warrenty and the ability to cross-ship if you absolutely need memory fast. I have only ever had 1 bad module of Crucial and that was my powersupply dying and kicking a rather hefty amount of voltage at a few things in my computer, needless to say it took a motherboard, memory, and a videocard with it. This is a reason I love Crucial's warrenty...they sent me out another module fed-ex and when I got it it worked like a champ of course then I sent my defective one back no questions asked. NICE.
Stability - Crucial memory is usually clocked in CAS a little more relaxed when compared to other memory. But if you can find someone that can tell the difference between 2 / 2.5 / 3 Cas ratings while using the PC I will be completely impressed. Synthetic benchmarks like sandra are the only way to really tell the difference in Cas, so on this note I could care less, give me the stability!
Overclocking - Crucial memory overclocks VERY WELL. Yes I know it voids the warrenty, but when Im spending so little on the most stable memory out there I could care less.
Now, I spent a grand total of $65 on my 512MB Crucial PC2700 DDR 333mhz memory at newegg.com and it is rated at CAS 2.5 / 7-3-3. What I got out of this memory is impressive for the money! The furthest I can push it overclocked is 390Mhz!! Yes completely stable at 390mhz CAS 2.5 7-3-3. Not too bad for $65 memory! Once I do the big plunge into the world of the 865PE chipset I will order myself a pair of 512MB Crucial PC3200 DDR 400mhz memory modules and clock em up as far as they can go, right now they are $85 a piece but will drop by the time I get em.
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know my history with Crucial and how much I recommend them. Here is a bench from sisoft sandra 9.44 while overclocked to 150 FSB on my P4 2.4Ghz C1 stepping chip. (my 24/7 overclock and rock stable).
