Difference in Rams

[lothia]

Well I was wondering this, I just purchased two 2 gigs for a total of 90 dollars for my laptop.
It is Corsair or whatever brand and I would have paid 2x for Kingston. My question is, Kingston and this are the same CPU speed at 667 MHz and my comp maxes at 533 MHz, so how is Kingston better? I just don't understand how one RAM is better then another if they have the same capacity and speed.
But I am happy I now have 4 gigs of RAM I can finally fully play games on Vista and my laptop. (Or I hope I can)

[Pluto]

It might be the obvious reason...some RAM lasts longer then others and is a lot more sturdier.

Also, why do you use Vista? Its the most power-hungry OS available, get XP.

[ARandomGuy]

The kingston may have been low latency ram, or a ripoff, although low latency isn't a very good value to begin with.

[zamwini]

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[FabianN]

The kingston may have been low latency ram, or a ripoff

Basically sums it up. There is more to RAM preformance than the size and speed, much like theres more to CPUs than it's speed and # of cores.

Now, the everyday user doesn't need to know more than speed and size, but the rest of the major specs of RAM that people look at are Timing and Voltage.
And Cas Latency is part of the timing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas_latency



Those are two other things that effect a RAM's performance.

And then theres also the warranty. If a company offers a life-time warranty, you may pay a little bit more for that warrenty.

Theres also the quality of the RAM (ie: it's failure rate)
But don't let the price be a judge of it's quality. Read reviews to get an idea on it's quality.



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[zipykido]

It might be the obvious reason...some RAM lasts longer then others and is a lot more sturdier.

Also, why do you use Vista? Its the most power-hungry OS available, get XP.

Vista isn't that bad if you have 4 gigs of ram. Also it's a laptop, so he'd have to find drivers which usually are only supported by the laptop manufacturer so it may be more of a pain to downgrade than to run vista.

[lothia]

Thank you all
I don't know I know that when I did RvR in WAR this last time I got auto shut down because I believe my RAM was full when I was at 2 gigs, so even if this RAM isn't as fast as 4 gigs of Kingston I think that I should be doing better with 4 gigs of ram then I did with 2 gigs. But yeah Vista doesn't work that bad and it is quite nice, plus being on a laptop makes going to XP a bit of a turn off and with my limited 100gigs. However if I where to put Vista on a external harddrive and run it when playing games would that just be super slow or maybe work?

[ARandomGuy]

Thank you all
I don't know I know that when I did RvR in WAR this last time I got auto shut down because I believe my RAM was full when I was at 2 gigs, so even if this RAM isn't as fast as 4 gigs of Kingston I think that I should be doing better with 4 gigs of ram then I did with 2 gigs. But yeah Vista doesn't work that bad and it is quite nice, plus being on a laptop makes going to XP a bit of a turn off and with my limited 100gigs. However if I where to put Vista on a external harddrive and run it when playing games would that just be super slow or maybe work?

Not a good idea, the internal hard drive will have a much faster transfer speed than a external. Put extra stuff, like movies, music or just backup, on the external and leave the stuff that is run, like windows and your games, on the internal.