Choosing Memory
When you buy memory to upgrade a system, consider the following issues:
- Brand matters.
Brand name is important for memory. In our 20+ years of working on PCs, we recall only one high-quality name-brand module that failed other than from lightning damage or other abuse. Conversely, generic memory fails quite frequently. We recall one batch of 20 cheap DIMMs ordered by a client in which fully half of them were dead on arrival and the others failed within a few months. For general-purpose memory, we exclusively use and recommend memory modules from Crucial Technology (http://www.crucial.com) and Kingston Technologies (http://www.kingston.com).
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