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> Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Tom Rutherford" typed:
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> >> Somewhere on teh intarwebs "Tom Rutherford" typed:
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> >>>> Hello --
> >>>>
> >>>> Can anyone recommend a vendor offering low prices on RAM.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there much reliability variation between Crucial, Kingston and
> >>>> the other manufacturers?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for any information.
> >>>
> >>> I've bought Crucial and Corsair, both what I consider top of the
> >>> line. I wouldn't hesitate to buy Kingston, either. I woudn't touch
> >>> PNY with a barge pole.
> >>>
> >>> IMHO, go for reliable, not cheap. Of the three I consider top of
> >>> the line -- Crucial, Corsair, and Kingston, in that order (but
> >>> they're so close there's hardly a hair's breadth of difference),
> >>> I'd even go for pulls, if I could find them, and wanted to save
> >>> money. I've bought only new memory, though. But, there are other
> >>> brands. Newegg advertises a lot of OCZ. Not sure how good they
> >>> are, but I haven't bought anything bad from Newegg yet.
> >>
> >> Yep, when I maxed out my T40 I got 2 x 1GB Transcend (with Samsung
> >> chips) modules. They were NZ$70 each, postage included, and the
> >> vendor gave me right-of-return for a month if they didn't work in my
> >> ThinkPad. They've been great.
> >
> > Never heard of Transcend, but if they use Samsung chips, I wouldn't
> > hesitate to buy them. Not sure what the exchange rate is between the
> > NZ$ and the US$, but for DDR (not DDR2), US$79 is usually the street
> > price these days. It's what Crucial wanted, last time I bought a gig
> > for the laptop. Newegg wanted US$54, which is why I went with them.
>
> I think that NZ$1 buys about 70 cents US. That means I paid around US$50 a
> module. Not bad, usually we pay 1.5x US prices here despite being closer
to
> Asia. However, when I bought them they *were* on a one-day only special
with
> my usual supplier.
I hear that from folks in Oz, too, about paying more, even though they're
closer to Asia. I do like those one-day deals, though, when I need
something, and just happen to run across a good deal.
> >> In fact I've used Transcend in my last few desktop builds (I often
> >> build / upgrade for others, friends and FoFs, usually in return for
> >> updated hardware or, rarely, cash) and find it to be a good,
> >> reliable brand. There is no New Zealand Crucial, Kingston or Corsair
> >> presence, just agents / importers who price the stuff almost out of
> >> the market. Transcend *do* make some budget stuff but I tend to not
> >> use their cheapest option, always buying at least one level up.
> >
> > Well, it sounds like you don't really need those three biggies, then.
>
> Yeah, although a lot of people read US reviews / magazines / websites so
pay
> through the nose for whatever is mentioned..
I can see where that would happen. Do you have anything analogous to
"Consumer Reports", only for NZ? It would be nice to be able to
compare/contrast locally available brands with those available here. I've
read of a few brands available in Oz that I'd never heard of, but they
appear to be top notch.
> We actually get a few brand-names or models here that it's very hard to
find
> English-language info on.
Heh! Sometimes, what is supposed to be English in manuals for products sold
here turns out to be Manglish. :-) With Taiwanese motherboards, Korean
memory, Japanese this and Chinese that, it gets confusing. I bought a
little handheld transceiver last March that transmits in the 2m, 1.5m, and
70cm amateur radio bands. The radio is made by Vertex Standard, which I
believe is Japanese. It's re-badged as Yaesu, also Japanese. There are
versions of the radio for North America, Europe, and Asia, with certain
frequencies blocked and certain others opened up, maybe some differences in
power output on different bands. The radio, TTBOMK, is made in Japan, but
some accessories are made in China. It amazes me that the manual turned out
to be as well done as it is! There are some slight inconsistencies in the
radio's firmware, though, like some of the shortwave presets being invalid.
F'rinstance, there is no more BBC World Service available via shortwave, yet
if you tune through the 83 preset shortwave frequencies, that one comes up
from time to time. And, I haven't figured out how to edit the text tags on
those presets to correct them. Still, I'm glad I bought the radio, because
it performs well in the amateur bands.
> >> Most US mail/web order places (including Newegg) won't post
> >> international and the few that do really bite with postal charges,
> >> making it uneconomical.
> >
> > Yipe! Newegg won't even sell to Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, as I
> > recall; just the Continental U.S.
>
> Yeah, I think that's right. I remember trying to get some capacitors sent
to
> me from badcaps.com. No luck there either, I had to open a trade account
> with a local branch of a wholesaler. It saved me money though. ;-)
That's rough. I hope you got your capacitors. Here, we'd either go to the
local Radio Shack (Tandy to you, maybe; it's Tandy in Oz) and order them, or
we'd order them from Digi-Key or Jameco. Or, if we happened to be in a town
where there's a real electronic supply store, there's where we'd go. Maybe
things will improve as time goes by.
> Cheers,
--
-- 73 DE Tom Rutherford, N8EUJ, Burton, MI
"She said it was either her or the ham radio. Over."
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