What RAM? Corsair, crucial or kingston?

I'm on the brink of buying my first laptop, currently looking on a system that lets me configure most aspects of the comp, I'm not sure which RAM to pick.

brand:.........................price:

2048 corsair value.........1938 sek
2048 Kingston value.......2000 sek
2048 crucial..................3467sek

I'm a little shocked to see the pricedifference between the two cheaper brands amd crucial. What's the difference? In the specs at the homepage ( http://www.komplett.se/k/config.asp?ConfigSystemId=10176&Config.AllOptions=X) there is a number after the crucialsticks, 6ns. Is that incredible fast access speed or what? Is it really worth to pay 1.5 the price?
I will use the machine mainly for gaming (WoW, and perhaps oblivion), videoediting, ingame videocapturing and quite advanced ramconsuming photoediting.

Edit: Since I will be buying the RAM in two blocks I have the possibility of combining different brands. Is that a bad idea? If not, and if the crucial is insanely good, would I gain 300 sek worth of performance is I use crucial in one slot and kingston or corsair in the other?

 

All three brands are good. If I were you I would go for the cheapest corsair value. I think the difference in the RAM you have listed up there is the Crucial ram is most likely more performance RAM. This kind of RAM is tested a lot more and often comes with a metal heatsink. This RAM is good for overclockers. However, all the RAM you have listed up there has a lifetime warranty. In summary.. go for the cheapest RAM that is a good brand and is covered by a lifetime warranty Also you can mix and match RAM, but just make sure the CAS latency or the speeds of the RAM your mixing is the same. Also perhaps the density might matter.

 

I will agree with jasonck08, all the RAMs are good and you might want to look at the value RAM by each brand. They are alot cheaper.

Personally, I wouldn't mix and mach brands, just because the CAS latency and specs might be off by just a little bit, which might cause some small slowdowns.

 

Yeup I agree with the guys above. All have lifetime warranty I believe and perform similarly. I wouldn't worry too much about latencies and blah blah because I don't think you can change them in your bios on laptops.

Can you? If you can mess with latencies and stuff I would say go for the performance one, but if you can't then they will all default to whatever speed it is running at and the bios will pick a safe default value for each latency.

That's how it is on my Z70Va. Just get the cheapest stuff that has a lifetime warranty.

Cheers,
Mike

 

Go for the cheapest one. They are all good brands. Can't go wrong with them. Try to buy the same brand just to be safe. It is normally ok to mix and match different brands of ram. However, if you can get the same brand then I would say that this is the better route.

 

ill go against the grain and suggest OCZ ram...awesome stuff, even better warrenty...

if you absolutely have to pick out of those three...if your aiming for value ram, get the cheapest ram..also remember never to mix and match ram. (different brands, buying at different times..i.e. buying 1gb stick now, then a month later buying another 1gb stick)

hope this helps..

pb,out.

 

Yeah I'll have to go with pbcustom98 on this one, IF you can afford it might as well go with OCZ. I've had nothing but great experiences with OCZ ram.

Crucial is also a great performance brand with prices that are usually the lowest no?

Like their Tracer Ballistics ram, it's priced WELL under performance ram from OCZ and others, but performs right up there, usually at the top. I'm speaking about the low latency modules not the high bandwidth ones.

Cheers,
Mike

 

Don't buy valueram! Its trash! Also I would agree with USAFdude and suggest you use the same brand and also 2x1gig or 512+512 etc I don't like mismatching that.

YEs crucial and especially their ballistix line is excellent! Especially for Overclocking, if your gonna OC and you have the money go Crucial. However all three are excellent.

Disclaimer- I have famil/friends who work for crucial and am a regular somewhat biased customer, there building is within a few miles of my house

I'm using their ram right now on my lappy

 

I dont think so valueram is terrible. If you buy valueram from major manufacturers,like corsair,kingston,ocz,you should get good quality ram,even though it's a valueram.
I have used kingston value ram in compaq presario m2000 and it was rock stable,no problem at all. I sold the original presario's ram and change with kvr 512pc3200.

 

Thanks a lot for the pointers. I've ordered the computer now, awaiting my first laptop ever within a week or so. Went for the corsair, seems like that money can be put to better use elsewhere