Lower tier memory - any good?

[heni30]

Anyone have experience with lesser known brand memory? Like Geil or Team or Mushkin?

 

The price difference of $125 vs $170 for 16g (2x8) is very tempting.

[cafric1]

I've bought Geil before and have had no problems with it. That computer is over 8 years old, and have had no issues with that ram for what its worth.

[Graphite]

I've herd Mushkin being decent as well.

[Zdravko Barisic]

Geil and Mushkin are awesome memory brands. Go ahead.

Personally, I go with Kingstone value ram, no issues so far.

We do not need ant fancy super fast ram, just stabile and huge amount of ram.

Good luck!

[Dimitris Tolios]

I also had GEIL mem sticks few years back. Actually I have 4 of those still pumping along with the Q6600 I've left back home for my dad.

Mushkin is also very well known and trusted.

Team is the least known of all, but also makes quality products.

 

Remember that only a handful of companies make RAM chips: Samsung, Hynix & Micron (Crucial) are the main suppliers of chips for pretty much all consumer memory stick brands and most consumer GPUs. There is a handful of people that believe certain memory brands are more "reliable" than others, but to an extend that is as true as those that believe that intel supplies "better" CPUs to Apple than it does to the rest of the world's manufacturers.

 

Truth is that RAM is very reliable and very consistent as it comes from 2-3 suppliers that follow VERY closely the JEDEC standards.

RAM is also not the bottleneck in the vast majority of apps (including rendering), so paying a premium for fancy heat-spreaders and packaging bearing a sticker, is a placebo.