RAM Rebranding

I was speaking to a friend, who sold memory, MBs, and assortment of other computer hardware for quite a while. He was telling me on how the memory manufactures, such as Samsung, make their own memory and then test it to see if it meets their standards. If the chip doesn't meet the manufactures standards, they sell it off to companies who then rebrand the chip as their own (Kingston, Patriot, etc...).

The chips that past the manufactures standards are then sold to government agencies, corporations. So the consumers get the left overs. This doesn't mean the consumer memory is non functionally, but it's not on par with the higher standard memory. I was wondering if anyone knows if there is truth to this, because it's the first time I've heard about it. Discuss

 

If so...why would Kingston have a life time warranty on their ''sub-par'' RAMs?

 

That's a load of bull....

 

The way you have stated is absolutely not true. The company's that buy DRAM chips from Sumsung, Hynix, Qimonda AG, Micron and Elipda Memory are going to demand that what they buy meets or exceeds the standards. Kingston specifically runs some of the most extensive testing on what they buy and then also after they make the DIMM (what you think of as the RAM). There may in fact be a market for defective RAM but it is not being sold by any Reputable brand name company's you mention. What do you think Intel does with bad chips? They rename and use the part that is good. For example Core 2 Solo for example is a dual core with 1 core disabled, T7250 is A t7300 with half the L2 disabled. Samsung is more likely to keep bad chips in house and sell as lower capacity or speeds than dump on 3rd party vendors. And as a certainty if they are the 3rd party is aware and gets a very good discount and does as mentioned, sells at lower capacity of lower speed. You can't sell a PC 5300 that is not PC 5300 it will not work so as a consumer don't worry and your friend is misleading you in some ways.

 

I never mentioned in my post that I believed him, I was just stating what he told me. It's what he told me, so I'm just seeing if I can discredit this information. Does anyone have actually proof to falsify this information he's told me?

Load of bull, nice discussion material.

 

I did not mean to say I thought you believed, I only responded to what you said. Your question of discrediting this is a hard one. Why? Well someone wrong who is off the deep end can be hard to convince. They are sometimes unlikely to accept fact and common sense. Why would the government or cooperation's get the best RAM when their systems are behind the average consumer system by at least a year? Does their P4 need the best RAM? Will they pay top dollar? I think not, so the premise is absurd. Don't give me Black Op's scenarios so little of the governments needs fall beyond basic office tasks and simple data collection capabilities as to not be a market force of any significance. Enthusiasts drive the market and lead to much of advancement in technology and pay top dollar for it.

 

Insightful opinion as usual, thanks powerpack.