Is this RAM brand good? Are value selected ones really poor quality?

I want to upgrade my laptop ram and buy something that isn't too expensive. I see Consair and Mushkin ValueSelect ones. I know Consair is pretty good, but not sure about Mushkin. Can anyone tell me if Muskin is good or some of their past experiences with the brand? Also, about the ValueSelect ones are they a lower quality ram and have a shorter lifespan? Would it work with the Ramaxel 512MB in my laptpop?

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=016082&cid=RAM.187.566

http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=014432&cid=RAM.187.566

 

There isn't really much difference between memory brands.

Just buy the cheapest with a lifetime warranty(many has this warranty) and you're good to go.

 

the only real difference is that the 'good' brands have tighter quality controls. But even so, the failure rates of RAM can be as high for 40% for any brand. Like Michel.K said, as long as it has a solid lifetime warranty, you're good to go.

 

Mushkin is actually a much bigger company than Corsair, they're well known in gaming and overclocking, their Value Series is perfectly fine, not lower quality, it's just targeted basic users. But like Michel.K stated, just get one with lifetime warranty and you will have nothing to worry about.

EDIT: For the record, all Mushkin memory module products come with lifetime warranty.

 

Major G.Skill fan here. Used Mushkin before; not awful or anything but nothing special. Used to put Corsair in everything with a few exceptions (I use Crucial in my ASUS F3SV), but now I use G.Skill in everything. G.Skill is the only stuff I purchase for my employer's PCs. Highly recommended. Not at all expensive, never had a single issue.

 

Yeah I second G. skill. They were usually the cheapest and I've never had a problem with their products.

 

I previously used Corsair more or less preferentially but got stuck with multiple bad sticks as did many others.

I've switched to some G.Skill D9 and they are great. Only problem is MOBO limits how high I can go!

I've heard good things about Mushkin and would buy them without question.

 

okay thx every1

 

Value series of most RAM brands usually refers to the basic configuration, they are good enough. The more expensive RAM models usually have lower latencies, sometimes sold with heat spreaders and will have fancy packaging, case badges etc.. ; basically intended for gamers who want to squeeze out every bit of extra performance they can get out of their memory, and of cause for overclocking…

 

actually corsair gave the name "value select" for their laptop memory for a reason. The laptop memory sodimms were infact cheaper than desktop cards.
The value select memory is not low end memory, it follows the same quality controls as the dominator and xms series memory cards. The only difference between the value select and the gaming series laptop memory is what the point of this thread is about. Many consumers think that value select equals cheap, so they are being turned away by that, so they gave new labels to their memory to increase sales.
I think Corsair is a bigger brand than mushkin, well at least I know for a fact corsair has been around longer.

I used to be sworn into buying their products, because they used to be the best. I think their lead dropped just as the memory entered into the ddr2 era.
I have probably around 60 ddr1 corsair cards and never had a problem. I have about 20 ddr2 based memory cards from them, and I must say that 2 of them have had to go back for RMA.

Their rma process is very fast, turnaround time was literally 2 days from when they received the problematic memory cards

I would stick with corsair over mushkin just based on warranty alone. Sure mushkin also has a lifetime warranty but my brother waited over 2 weeks to get a new card back.

K-TRON

 

What is so special about G.Skill when they don't actually produce their own chips? You know most major brands get their chips from the same places.

No K-TRON, Mushkin is way bigger than Corsair as a company, and both companies started in 1994, Corsair is not around longer. Mushkin has three regional headquarters, one in North America, Europe, and Asia. Corsair has only one in the States. And I gotta disagree about them used to being the best, I'd say it was Kingston.

 

Yeah, the funny thing is G.skill, mushkin, crucial, corsair and ocz intend to use the same chips on their modules almost all the time. For example micron is a well known brand on the chips that the stated companies use in their modules, among other brands So yeah, there is nothing special about any of them really, just quality controls that may be different