[Hardware] RAM question

Matthew Carpenter matt
Mon May 17 11:48:37 PDT 2004


I LIKE my PNY memory.  PNY seems to do a good job in the "cheap-generic" style
products.  Their warrantees seem to be pretty decent too.  I have been running
PNY memory for about 3 years now, with no problems to speak of.


On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Myles Green wrote:
>  On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:37, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > What's the difference between PNY's 256MB PC100 SODIMM memory for
> > > $70 and Kingston's for $144?
> > > Got a friend with a laptop (Dell Inspiron 3800, I think) that wants to
> > > add RAM to it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tim
> >
> > About $74 ?? Seriously though, it's a matter of choice really. Personally,
> > I've always stuck with name-brand RAM and some brands are just better
> > quality than others. I'm not familiar with the PNY name, so I'll defer to
> > someone who is.
> 
> I've heard of PNY.  Just another mass-market memory vendor.  Quality is no
> better or worse than Kingston, or Crucial,or any of the other commodity
> memory vendors.  Unless you're looking for quality memory (ECC etc), it
> really doesn't make much of a difference.
> 
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