Anyone know why it's so cheap?
It's got a lifetime warranty, but it's the absolute cheapest shit imaginable. When I had to clean the RMA office out of all the old parts laying around, I had a huge bag full of ram, and maybe 3/4ths of it was Elixir brand ram.
I mean, I'm a fan of generic RAM and all, but this stuff is the cheapest. When it works it works fine, but it's frequently DOA.
Basically, there are brands of ram that do sell extremely cheap. We sell PC2100 here for about $60-70
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Waisz had this to say about pies:
On the other hand, 1GB of g.skill LE TCCD memory module @ PC4400 is $250. It's all relative to the quality of what you purchase.
I'm still convinced that after a certain point along the "ram quality" scale, the only thing that increases is the profit margin.
This phrase applies to many products, RAM being one of them.
I personally don't buy ram unless it's from Crucial's website.
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ACES! Another post by Maradon!:
I'm still convinced that after a certain point along the "ram quality" scale, the only thing that increases is the profit margin.
Hmm? The bus speed of the RAM does actually vary depending on what is being advertised?
When interviewed after playtesting generic ram, one tester was quoted as saying
"It was like...seeing God..."
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Waisz had this to say about Captain Planet:
Hmm? The bus speed of the RAM does actually vary depending on what is being advertised?
I'm talking more about Crucial's new "christmas tree" doodad ram with blinky lights and flagrantly overembelleshed heat spreaders and crap that performs exactly the same as some regular pseudo-generic SuperTalent.
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Maradon! said this about your mom:
Generic ram outperforms crucial 100 to 1.When interviewed after playtesting generic ram, one tester was quoted as saying
"It was like...seeing God..."
Shortly after, tester caught passed out drunk on the floor. Reynar fucked around with this message on 01-19-2005 at 05:45 PM.
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Maradon! said this about your mom:
I'm talking more about Crucial's new "christmas tree" doodad ram with blinky lights and flagrantly overembelleshed heat spreaders and crap that performs exactly the same as some regular pseudo-generic SuperTalent.
Neat, I just bought a 512 stick from them, but mine had none of those bells & whistles.
*wants blinky ram!*
* has 4 Crucial 512 mb PC3200 sticks in his compy
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Maradon! said:
I'm talking more about Crucial's new "christmas tree" doodad ram with blinky lights and flagrantly overembelleshed heat spreaders and crap that performs exactly the same as some regular pseudo-generic SuperTalent.
Oh, I agree with that. I don't even have heatspreaders.
I'm not sure Crucial uses TCCD right now though, so I wouldn't even consider it. 
Although I've never bought from the Kingston or Crucial websites. I've always bought through ASI, Synnex and Ingram Micro. 
Although I'm sure if/when I depart this establishment I'll go back to ordering from newegg or just going over to CompUSSR or Fried to get it.
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A sleep deprived /dev/null stammered:
Although I've never bought from the Kingston or Crucial websites. I've always bought through ASI, Synnex and Ingram Micro.
Ingram is a bunch of complete assholes.
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/dev/null had this to say about Robocop:
Yeah, but I deal with their website. When it's not being slow or broken it's not bad.
Their website sucks too.
That chick on the main page has a lazy eye.
I'm not going to carry a torch of quality or anything, I've just had better luck with them than Crucial or 'house' brands.
It's not something people hear about.
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Sean wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
I'm a Kingston man. It's the only brand of RAM that I've never gotten a bad/DOA stick of.I'm not going to carry a torch of quality or anything, I've just had better luck with them than Crucial or 'house' brands.
A gig of Kingston value ram 2700 in my current comp. I overclocked the FSB on the first stick(had one at the time) pretty far with no trouble. Apparently Crucial originally sold rebranded Kingston as well.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Lyinar Ka`Bael was naked while typing this:
I've ordered Kingston RAM from them before for a good price. And the nice thing with newegg is their return policy on DOA is very good, and they're very cooperative about it all.
The RAM I bought was almost twice the price at Best Buy. The exact. Same. Stick.
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From the book of Lyinar Ka`Bael, chapter 3, verse 16:
I've ordered Kingston RAM from them before for a good price. And the nice thing with newegg is their return policy on DOA is very good, and they're very cooperative about it all.
Yeah Lyinar and I have had issues at times with stuff we've gotten (sometimes it was just a bum unit, sometimes we had issues with it at our end) and they always take that sucker back. Work with us, too. Pretty cool.
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