Geil, Mushkin, Crucial, or Corsair Value?

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The_Dominion

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OK looking at the ram in stock at Newegg, I will be ordering two sticks of one of the following, but I need your help to decide:
Contender #1:
Crucial:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-541&depa=0

Contender #2:
Corsair Value Select:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-026&depa=1

Contender #3:
Mushkin:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-219&depa=1

Last but not least, Contender #4:
Geil
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-144-305&depa=0

All the low end of the spectrum, but what I can afford 1GB of, So which is my best bet of running in dual channel mode? Oh, and a sort of silly question, is it wrong, or inadvisable, to order two seperate shipiments for the same ram, just two get two free pens? lol Thanks.
 
Truthfully if you are not o/cing etc...

All of those are good I would just buy the cheapest one, which is the Mushkin.
 
Mushkin for price reasons.

I don't see why you don't order it in two shipments for your 'free pens' :)

But why do that when you can save a whopping $5 on a Rosewill 17 inch LCD? Order in two different shipments and you can save $10 on two! Seriously, it's Win-Win!
 
only think about the mushkin I am worrying about is the chance of the Elixar chips according to some reviews.
 
I had Mushkin 133 SDRAM in my previous rig, I LOVED IT! They make awesome RAM, by far my favorite. I bought 2 Geil Ultra series PC 3200 512MB (newegg) sticks for my A7N8X Deluxe Rev 2 mobo with a 3200+. The only reason I bought that over the Mushkin high performance RAM was price at the time. I haven't OC'd it, but it runs great at stock speeds.
 
Clearly, here your greatest concern is funds, and not performance. Go with whatever is cheaper. After all, all RAM will do exactly what it's meant to, store things. Some better than others.
 
RAM in my first rig is 2 sticks of crucial 512mb pc2700 c2.5- runs just fine (prime stable) at 394mhz DDR 2-3-3-8 instead of the ddr333 its meant to. Will run at 400mhz ddr at c3, plays games fine but fails prime after 15mins. (have tested cpu and chipset at 213fsb with a mates corsair platinum pc3200, so i know its the ram holding me back). But it only cost me £109 for both sticks and it runs fine in dual channel so im pretty happy with it. :D
 
I have some crucial that was recently RMA returned. They clock pretty well. One thing I like about buying crucial for value is that usually it does its rated speed at a lower cas level, and will overclock at least 15 percent of its rated speed at default SPD settings with default voltage. Greater results are achieved with overvolting of course.

I think I would go with the crucial. Since they are not offering "performance" ram they sell one flavor, and it seems they seriously under rate their chips. Those RMA returns I mentioned earlier are PC2100 and they are currently sitting here @ 223 FSB with stock voltage.

here is a page showing overclocking potential
 
can anyone vouch for the OCability of any or all of these sticks (or companies in general) other than what was already stated?

thanks.
 
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