Kingston vs Corsair

Hi all


I just purchased 2X1Gb of Corsair memory for my notebook, and i had been looking at both brands with equivalently specced RAM. The corsair purchase cost me $60 (after $40 rebate), and the kingston would have cost more than twice as much, $126...

I thought the two brands were the leaders in the memory performance market, although i don't think their notebook products are the counterparts of their overclockable desktop cousins.

Basically my questions are:

1) is there a performance increase in purchasing these over the other brands (like Crucial, G.skill and others) for notebooks?

2) is one brand better, or both are equally reputable?

And in case people start talking about compatibility, I've done my research and the memory chips of each brand were compatible with my Inspiron E1705. oh, and both have lifetime warranties...

Thanks

 

1) I do not think there is any performance increase, as long as the specs are the same.

2) Both brands are reputable.

 

I have bounced back and forth between corsair and kingston over the years and have found them to be of equal quality/performance. Neither have ever given me compatibility or warranty issues. I buy one or the other, which ever is cheaper.

 

Go with whatever is cheaper. Kingston and Corsair are both very respected RAM brands, and Corsair tends to be cheaper.

 

thank you all for your responses!!!

im surprised to learn kingston and corsair memory is not much better than other brands - i guess its another instance of branding advertisements...

 

There are plenty of reputable RAM dealers. Here are some of them that I can list off the top of my head:

1. G.Skill (would be my #1 choice, very low prices coupled with lifetime warranty. G.Skill makes absolutely spectacular and dependable RAM).
2. Corsair
3. Kingston
4. A-Data (great little company that manufacturers lower-end RAM)
5. OCZ
6. Mushkin (tends to be pricey because it's aimed toward higher-end markets, you don't need to pay the price of a Mushkin to get that level of performance. Mushkin laptop memory is not much different from other brands of RAM that are half as expensive).
7. Crucial
8. Patriot
9. Super Talent (like Mushkin, tends to be on the expensive side. More oriented towards the desktop market)

 

Kingston always seems to have much higher prices for equivalent memory from the other top brands listed above. Most notebook makers do not give you the option in the bios to overclock ram so that's why you see 99% of 533 and 667
MHz notebook ram with the same specs.

 

It depends on the market. In HK, Kingston is the very cheap (perhaps chepeast), Transend is very costly. In Germany, Infenon is also expensive.....