Crossair VS kingston

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I'm thinking of getting ram for my computer.. DDR3 2GB, but I don't know which company is better to go with.. I'm using a kingston ram at the moment..

Kingston is a little more expensive than crssair. but I think it's fine..

Anyway, thanks
 
You mean Corsair? Anyway... I'd actually like to know the same. I have an Asus gaming notebook but my old days (5 years+) of modding/building customs PC's are starting to become more than an itch and I'm contemplating the idea of creating a mid-range AMD or intel i5-i7 system for gaming :)

P.S. My guess would be that it mostly depends on whether you want to overclock or not. Which in itself is a difficult decision to make (or is it?). Years ago overclocking was quite an involved experience. But reading forums these days reveals that overclocking on multi-core cpu systems is actually quite easy and common these days. Therefore, RAM voltage increases and clock frequencies together with stability would be the major factor when choosing a specific memory brand... Also, I would LOVE to know if the cooling attachments you find on some types of memory these days are actually there for practical reasons or whether it has more to do with appeal and image.....
 
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i have returned several sticks back to corsair to due them being faulty, but as for kingston....never had a problem with any of their sticks i have purchased. If it were up to me i would rather purchase kingston........more reliable......i speak from experience buying performance ram.
 
snail said:
i have returned several sticks back to corsair to due them being faulty, but as for kingston....never had a problem with any of their sticks i have purchased. If it were up to me i would rather purchase kingston........more reliable......i speak from experience buying performance ram.
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Yeah, thanks dude. Back in the days I remember Corsair as being one of those hard-core overclocker companies that mostly catered for the enthusiasts. I've always preferred Kingston because of the price, performance and stability factor and they've always served me well. But I have no idea whether Kingston is actually a brand you'd want to use when overclocking/experimenting. If I have to choose based on CPU/GPU brand loyalty alone I'd probably choose an AMD system with some kind of ATI product as the GPU. I love my intel i7 notebook, but I've always been a huge supporter of decent motherboards and it always seems as though AMD has the edge on this.

I guess my question then would be .... if I wanted to build a decent system based on the Phenom II or a quad core Intel (where I don't care about aesthetics), would cheaper Kingston memory actually be good enough to push it to the limit?

EDIT: Sorry for hijacking your thread kaisterkai, I hope we're more or less on the same level here....
As a side-note, I just made an ass of myself today. I needed a small Mini-SD card to upgrade the firmware of some PDA's we're using on a system at work. So I walk up to a guy from Matrix Warehouse this afternoon. "Dude, I need a micro SD card, just something small to load a Windows Mobile 6 ROM update"... Dude: "What size so you need". Me: "Oh well, a 128MB or 256MB will do". "errrr....dude, our smallest is 2GB, it's R69"...Me: "Holy ****! Just errr.... give me one of those 2GB's (all the while remembering how I paid R400 just 3 years ago for a 2GB mini-SD I managed to import with the help from a friend in Malaysia)".... yes, I'm getting old.
 
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Kingston does offer high-performance memory (the Hyper-X series). There have been reliability issues with Corsair's low-end (mainstream) modules in the past year, but their overclocking memory is top-notch.

Overall, it's much of a muchness, pick whatever has the best specs at the best price. Don't forget that there are other memory manufacturers... I'm particular to Mushkin myself, but you might also consider OCZ.
 
lol nice story haha :D

As for the OC. It's quite simple on the new intel systems, Done 3 so far :) And my initial OC to 4GHz was done with kingston valueram.. Which was awesome. The frequency I left to auto,and It would offen drop below the 1333MHz. As with my BLCK (bus) @ 4GHz was 200 instead of 133 and RAM multipler at 3 I would get a Frequency of 1200MHz for my ram. I never pushed the frequency past 1333 on those chips but they worked flawlessly! And still are in another system with a slightly lower OC.
 
I really don't care as long as it has a warranty. Of course if you're really into your overclocking you wanna choose good ram.
 
True but even an OC to 3.4 is simple enough and grants a nice performance boost (i5 750)
 
Ram makes the least performance gain to any system but have to keep up with all the other "Upgrades" so quality, fast ram is required to keep it stable. Whether there would be any major detectable difference between Corsair and Kingston is debatable.
 
Both are good in their respected segments, but i would look around a bit more. There are loads of other makes that are just as good if not better eg. OCZ, G.Skill, Team Xtreem, Patriot etc
 
I've never had a problem with any Kingston sticks. Even my good old 128MB ddr 266/333mhz sticks still work :D
 
ToAsTeD said:
I've never had a problem with any Kingston sticks. Even my good old 128MB ddr 266/333mhz sticks still work :D
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I've had a 512MB Kingston Valuram stick become corrupted in 2005. Lifetime warranty but unfortunately purchased in Abu Dhabi so didn't have the time to return for a refund.
 
snail said:
i have returned several sticks back to corsair to due them being faulty, but as for kingston....never had a problem with any of their sticks i have purchased. If it were up to me i would rather purchase kingston........more reliable......i speak from experience buying performance ram.
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I would think so too.. But Shouldn't they have improved now? But anyway, matrix doesn't sell corsair anyway.. but I was just asking.. Nice to know though, because currently, Kingston is more expensive than corsair.. (From where I'm buying.. )

But thanks..
 
Terumo said:
Both are good in their respected segments, but i would look around a bit more. There are loads of other makes that are just as good if not better eg. OCZ, G.Skill, Team Xtreem, Patriot etc
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I have heard of some of them, but the thing is, I don't know where they are sold.. but i'll look around.. my IC will have something (But I know they are crazy when it comes to prices.. )
 
Synaesthesia said:
I really don't care as long as it has a warranty. Of course if you're really into your overclocking you wanna choose good ram.
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well I'm actually not a over clocking person, because I'm scared I'm going to do harm to my PC, so I just want something that can increase game play..

Also, I have kingston, so I don't know if I have another ram, it's going to kick back in my face.. May sound stupid, but some products do somehow do that..
 
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