Corsair Vs Kingston Vs Transcend

[sainit]

Hello Everyone!!!

I m planning to buy a PC in near future but I m having a confusion.

Which RAM is Good in performance

Corsair or Kingston or Transcend

In case all r same then why everyone mentioning about Corsair and this is also higher in price.

Thanks

[Kniwor]

Firstly, Transcend DOES NOT even make high quality ram, just the basic stuff, on 28th march transcend released it official 2x1Gb DDR2-800, this was one of the world's cheapest DDR2-800, there are no good Transcend ram with heat spreaders etc...

Kingston, Corsair both make a good range of ram, and are usually good, all ram modules are not the same, so no suggestion an be given until u tell us what model ram are you looking for, but these companies no doubt produce some of the world's best ram.

Transced is popular in India because it is the only cheap brand that is easily available in India, we can hardly call Hynix a brand.

But we Indians are so fascinated by the CPU in our comp, we hardly care about important things like RAM/PSU. In almost every comp that I have built for myself, my ram cost me equal to my CPU, and quite often more. Good ram is more important, you can crank up a cpu, but not a crappy ram. A crappy ram cripples the system badly.

[deathvirus_me]

Me using Corsair for quite some time now ... my ddr2-667 modules does 850 MHz at 5-5-5-15 .... so u know i'd always suggest Corsair now ...

BTW ... i don't think Transcend modules are bad ..

[srinivasbg]

Generally what matters is what chipset the ram module contains, some of the local ones have the lower quality hynix chips in them.so be careful while choosing .i suggest u buy corsair xms2 which is the best ddr2 .If cost is factor u can settle for kingston ddr2

[Tech Geek]

Corsair is the best of those three

[casanova]

Corsair > Kingston > Transcend

[john_the_ultimate]

Me also using CORSAIR 1GB*2 DDR (Value Select). Very much satisfied with its performance.

[darklord]

Any DDR2 RAM with Micron D9GXX series chips with a Brainpower PCB is heavenly

Anyways Corsair and Kingston both are equal in terms of quality so buy whatever is cheaper.Lately i have started disliking Transcend,dunno why.

Bottomline is the Memory IC and the PCB is all that matters.Irrespective of the manufacturer.
SPD programming also helps a lot in performance and stability of a particular RAM

some of the local ones have the lower quality hynix chips in them

Just cos Hynix is cheap doesnt mean its low quality I have seen Hynix DDR2 chips hitting 1200 speeds,which was till now only Micron's Domain in DDR2 arena

[s18000rpm]

Hynix cheap

HP Desktops come with that brand RAM, i dunno if its cheap but they're of high quality (imo).

they sell ~1k more at HP (obviously)

last time i heard about this RAM brand, it was of really high quality & costlier than Transcend/Kingston...

[Kniwor]

Hynix has no dout produced good mainstream chips, but would not consider them top-class, Chips are actually more important than manufacturers, but implementation cannot be ignored, Kingston used Infineon chips in their enthusiast Kingston HyperX KHX7200D2K2/1G, and did decently.

No doubt the Micron D fat body chips are the best and rocking material, but recently Elpida chips have shown great potential, and it's being used in a lot of high performing memory, OCZ platinum series, Kingston HyperX etc... and these chips rock too, and are cheaper. Promos it at the moment a sort of mainstream chip used by a lot of manufacturers, and many make their own chips. So u just cant look at a manufacturer and say what is better.

But for now, I know that at the moment transcend is not giving out any great product, for some reason, I have recently begun to dislike them. I'd much rather prefer corsair value products.

God I miss it that Geil/buffalo/G.skill don't sell here, If u will not believe, Geil has a product in market just few bucks higher than the transcend ram, that clock 1000Mhz at really good timings, Geil Ultra(not Micron D9, it's Elpida I guess, not sure).

In all, Corsair/Kingston is good, but Kingston is not so good on the Price front.

[sam9s]

Originally Posted by darklord

Any DDR2 RAM with Micron D9GXX series chips with a Brainpower PCB is heavenly

Absolutely right and BTW Transcend JetRam also uses same D9 Micron chips which most of you would not be knowing. I was using corsiar 667 initially but when I got this new set up bought 800 Mhz Transcend Jet RAM, which is an absolute stunner of an OCing RAM given the price as well. I, ranjan and even ch@0s can vouch for that.

Corsair is good no doubt but Transcend can beat Corsiar by a fair margin given the Price, Performance ratio.

[Kniwor]

Originally Posted by sam9s

Absolutely right and BTW Transcend JetRam also uses same D9 Micron chips which most of you would not be knowing. I was using corsiar 667 initially but when I got this new set up bought 800 Mhz Transcend Jet RAM, which is an absolute stunner of an OCing RAM given the price as well. I, ranjan and even ch@0s can vouch for that.

Corsair is good no doubt but Transcend can beat Corsiar by a fair margin given the Price, Performance ratio.

will you tell me the exact make/model of your ram.
does it have heat spreaders, and what's the timings?

[premsharma]

For me look & finish of Transcend itself is cheap. Even Kingston & TwinMos are for better in external.

I duno, why but no one is mentioning Zion, Is it not good enough to be bracketed with likes of corsair. It is not correct that RAM is viewed from OC point of view.

[wilderness]

I am using Kingston... good enough. And I use two transcend thumbdrives.. and i think both are pretty good. Corsair of course, is better than both.

[Kniwor]

Transcend Flash Products are very good, but we're on RAM here.

[Goten]

Corsair.

[ranjan2001]

Originally Posted by Kniwor

will you tell me the exact make/model of your ram.
does it have heat spreaders, and what's the timings?

NO this does not have a heat spreaders
This is the ram transcend jetram 800 & its timing is 5-5-5-15
http://www.techmessenger.com/Transce...070328001.html

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/T...80075-581.html

I bought it for 7000/- but if its available for its original price of Rs 4700-5000 then its the best value ram for OCing

[sam9s]

Originally Posted by Kniwor

will you tell me the exact make/model of your ram.
does it have heat spreaders, and what's the timings?

No it does not have the heat spresders. Model is JM367Q643A-8. Its 512x2 module and I am running it at 5-5-5-15. Its flawlessly working OCed at 944 Mhz. I will push it further when I get my cooling solution.

[Kniwor]

Originally Posted by sam9s

No it does not have the heat spresders. Model is JM367Q643A-8. Its 512x2 module and I am running it at 5-5-5-15. Its flawlessly working OCed at 944 Mhz. I will push it further when I get my cooling solution.

I cant seem to find anywhere that it uses Micron D9, help me out here.

[Sukhdeep Singh]

Damn it, i see Corsair XMS2 800 MHZ selling for 130$ in US today In India we wont be getting 1GB 800mhz Corsair at that price

[sam9s]

Originally Posted by Kniwor

I cant seem to find anywhere that it uses Micron Fat body, help me out here.

Check this out.....for a start.......

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...9&postcount=19

[Kniwor]

Originally Posted by sam9s

Check this out.....for a start.......

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...9&postcount=19

Dude, it nowhere says that the transcend uses Micron D9, please read it again. it just says that it OC'd well in his review.

[Ch@0s]

Transcend used D9 chips for a while... now it uses lame PSC . That ram getting stuck at 455FSB is a sure shot indication of D9. It was a well known Gigabyte DS3 bug which was fixed later with bios updates.

[Kniwor]

Originally Posted by Ch@0s

Transcend used D9 chips for a while... now it uses lame PSC . That ram getting stuck at 455FSB is a sure shot indication of D9. It was a well known Gigabyte DS3 bug which was fixed later with bios updates.

Before Micron got all weird and backed off, a lot of manufacturers, used Micron in the beginning, for the same reason was very specific to say "at the moment".

[Ch@0s]

Originally Posted by Kniwor

Before Micron got all weird and backed off, a lot of manufacturers, used Micron in the beginning, for the same reason was very specific to say "at the moment".

LOL nothing wierd happened to micron... just that the D9 ICs became way too expensive to be put in value ram and even low end performance ram. As of now, D9 mostly exists on exotic DDR1000 and higher rams.

[ranjan2001]

Thats sad to know, so this means we will have trouble upgrading our rams in future as they will not be compatible with the present D9 chips.

[Ch@0s]

^^Buy cellshock... its one of the only brands thats guaranteed D9. 1000C4 is guaranteed D9GKX. 1000C5 can be either D9GKX or D9GMH. 800C4 is D9GMH. Expensive but totally worth it. There's also a 800C4 part based on promos but its in a completely different packaging with standard looking heatspreaders.

[Kniwor]

Originally Posted by ranjan2001

Thats sad to know, so this means we will have trouble upgrading our rams in future as they will not be compatible with the present D9 chips.

Almost all crucial will be D9, The company is a Micron kid.

Plus you can always look for ram that is a D9 Micron, it's just that they are bit costlier, G.Skill, Buffalo are giving out D9 based sticks.
But I'm really beginning to like Elpida, there is some really great Elpida RAM out there

Originally Posted by Ch@0s

LOL nothing wierd happened to micron... just that the D9 ICs became way too expensive to be put in value ram and even low end performance ram. As of now, D9 mostly exists on exotic DDR1000 and higher rams.

That's what I was referring to weird, first they discontinued the fatbody saying it was not viable, and D9's were costlier....


Also D9 does exist in DDR2-800 etc... here's a few 800Mhz RAM that's assured Micron.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146565
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820150054


Oh!, BTW guys, just for the fun of it, Hynix is a bigger manufacturer of chips than Micron,Elpida or ProMOS, and only worlds second largest.

[darklord]

Hynix has no dout produced good mainstream chips, but would not consider them top-class, Chips are actually more important than manufacturers, but implementation cannot be ignored, Kingston used Infineon chips in their enthusiast Kingston HyperX KHX7200D2K2/1G, and did decently.

No doubt the Micron D fat body chips are the best and rocking material, but recently Elpida chips have shown great potential, and it's being used in a lot of high performing memory, OCZ platinum series, Kingston HyperX etc... and these chips rock too, and are cheaper. Promos it at the moment a sort of mainstream chip used by a lot of manufacturers, and many make their own chips. So u just cant look at a manufacturer and say what is better.

But for now, I know that at the moment transcend is not giving out any great product, for some reason, I have recently begun to dislike them. I'd much rather prefer corsair value products.

God I miss it that Geil/buffalo/G.skill don't sell here, If u will not believe, Geil has a product in market just few bucks higher than the transcend ram, that clock 1000Mhz at really good timings, Geil Ultra(not Micron D9, it's Elpida I guess, not sure).

In all, Corsair/Kingston is good, but Kingston is not so good on the Price front.

Hynix has no dout produced good mainstream chips, but would not consider them top-class -----> I never said that re...

No doubt the Micron D fat body chips are the best and rocking material, but recently Elpida chips have shown great potential, and it's being used in a lot of high performing memory, OCZ platinum series, Kingston HyperX etc... and these chips rock too, and are cheaper. Promos it at the moment a sort of mainstream chip used by a lot of manufacturers, and many make their own chips. So u just cant look at a manufacturer and say what is better.----> Micron Fattys are history since a long time dude ! And Elpida though good, it is good only upto 1000 not above that.Anything above 1000 and at tight timings,it has to be D9GMH or D9GKX and now Promos But even Promos cant boast the tight timings that Microns pull off

Absolutely right and BTW Transcend JetRam also uses same D9 Micron chips which most of you would not be knowing. I was using corsiar 667 initially but when I got this new set up bought 800 Mhz Transcend Jet RAM, which is an absolute stunner of an OCing RAM given the price as well. I, ranjan and even ch@0s can vouch for that.

Corsair is good no doubt but Transcend can beat Corsiar by a fair margin given the Price, Performance ratio.

Dude only a particular Model no. of Transcend Jetram DDR2 667 had those and those were very very rare.Also its NOT guranteed that Transcend 667 will have Microns.Transcend is cheap and Micron chips are no way cheap !


No it does not have the heat spresders. Model is JM367Q643A-8. Its 512x2 module and I am running it at 5-5-5-15. Its flawlessly working OCed at 944 Mhz. I will push it further when I get my cooling solution.-----> Those arent Microns if youa re saying so.And If you are saying those are Microns, ssshhhhhhh ! then 944 MHz is INSULT for Micron
BTW Transcend with this model no. ONLY had Microns -PC2 5300 TS64MLQ64V6J
None other than this had Micron.

^^Buy cellshock... its one of the only brands thats guaranteed D9. 1000C4 is guaranteed D9GKX. 1000C5 can be either D9GKX or D9GMH. 800C4 is D9GMH. Expensive but totally worth it. There's also a 800C4 part based on promos but its in a completely different packaging with standard looking heatspreaders.-----> 1000 C4 and C5 both get GKX now Dada BTW since when did V2 get Promos,they were Elpidas na ?

Plus you can always look for ram that is a D9 Micron, it's just that they are bit costlier, G.Skill, Buffalo are giving out D9 based sticks.
But I'm really beginning to like Elpida, there is some really great Elpida RAM out there-----> You might want to reconsider that statement,Elpida is good no doubt but Micron still rocks for high speeds+tight timings at juicy volts.Elpida IMHO can never show 1100 @ 4-3-3-12,can it Ok now that was useless showoff


Oh!, BTW guys, just for the fun of it, Hynix is a bigger manufacturer of chips than Micron,Elpida or ProMOS, and only worlds second largest.----> Thats a well known fact
And btw the Buffalo Firestix from Newegg ONLY are guranteed D9,if purchased from some other stores,there is a POSSIBILITY of Elpida under it.Their 1000 part is D9GKX for sure but they use crappy PCB and hence cant clock well

[monkey]

It will be Corsair for pure performance, Kingston for fair performance and slightly fair price and Trancend for budget users.

Originally Posted by sukhdeepsinghkohli

Damn it, i see Corsair XMS2 800 MHZ selling for 130$ in US today In India we wont be getting 1GB 800mhz Corsair at that price

As far as I am aware yantraonline.in can get you some idea on Corsair pricing and theitdepot.com and deltapage.com can give price indication fro Kingston and Transcend prices.