Bargin Memory...yes please! (Unbranded Memory in General)

Name: RupertS

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Product:	Unbranded Memory in General
Date:	08/05/01 (341 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap, available everywhere

Disadvantages: very occasional problems with pins matching on the motherboard

Whatever the brand, all memory does the same job!

If you visit any online retailer you will see that there 100’s of brands of memory available, but the cheapest memory to be had is always the unbranded stuff.

Being au fait with PC hardware means that I build, upgrade and repair my systems (and other peoples). And when you know what you are doing you can save some cash!

Comparison: Unlike coke cola which tastes completely different depending if you buy “The real thing” or “Sainsco’s Own”, I find that memory is one of those things which works whatever the brand, and the brand owners are just trying to cash in on your loyalty buy selling memory with there name on it. There is only one issue, and that is that unbranded memory might invalidate your warrantee, although you have probably already invalidated your warrantee by opening the case in the first place!

Where to buy it from: I find the cheapest place is in computer fairs. I bought 256meg 133htz Dims for £57, this was in London’s Tottenham Court road (held every Saturday), but I can imagine that the prices are pretty much the same up and down the country. The price at dabs.com was £75! (All prices inc. vat).

Problems: If you have any problems with the memory, it is normally due to the socket on the motherboard not lining up properly with the contacts on the memory – I’ve only seen this twice, I been through a lot of memory – I just took the memory back and got an different brand of no-name memory (if that make sense – there is more than one manufacturer of unbranded memory)! I’ve never actually had problems with memory itself.

Price: I can only imagine that prices are going to keep on falling with huge capacity by manufactures and falling PC sales around the globe. The only thing that would put prices up again is another huge earthquake in South East Asia.

The Advantages of more mem
ory: I’m running win 2k on my machine, with 128meg it was caching every mouse click on the hard disk, and I was rebooting everyday. Now with 512meg I never need to reboot, I haven’t even heard the hard disk – and the machine is generally running a lot faster.

Conclusion: If you running a machine with less that 256meg, then the cheapest and best value for money upgrade would be to add more memory, at the current prices you can’t go wrong!

(Yippee, they have added my recommended category for unbranded memory.)

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