Okay hardware nuts,

[taeric]

Wait, you're in college and you've never built a computer?

What is surprising about that?

 

[Ryokurin]

*itching to build her own computer*

Yes, i'll marry you.



Wait.

 

[Coqui]

Wait, you're in college and you've never built a computer?

It's safe to say that over 50% of college students have never built a computer.

I'd even be willing to go over 75%

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

*itches hardware nuts*

 

[Sarcasmo]

Need some oil?

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Need some oil?

Only if its the deep penetrating kind

 

[fly]

Enjoy your random crashes and blue screens.

Ive used no name ram in my last 2 PCs and many other PCs I've built without issue. Sorry you had bad luck.

 

[Bubbles]

It's safe to say that over 50% of college students have never built a computer.

I'd even be willing to go over 75%

I'd go with the highest guess, I've never built one and I went to college. Most of the people I know have never built one.

 

[Atan Nolme]

I'd even add OCZ. Their stuff has run well in my system.

This isn't to say you have to buy the top of the line from these manufacturers. Their value lines are usually pretty decent if you're not overclocking or doing weird things with your system. However, the no name crap RAM being pushed out is asking for headaches from your machine for months to come. More so if your system is dual channel.

If you're bound and determined to buy cheap shit, make sure there's a decent return policy on it. When you get home with it, run Memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/) for a couple of hours. If you come up with ANY errors, take it back.

I am not saying you have to buy these manufactures top shelf RAM. When I bought 2Gbs of memory for my gaming machine I went with some value Mushkin because I wasn't gong to be overclocking.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

I ain't never been to no college an' I've built my own fer years

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

I ain't never been to no college an' I've built my own fer years

yar, same here

 

[Coqui]

What's a computer?

 

[Sarcasmo]

I'd even add OCZ. Their stuff has run well in my system.

This isn't to say you have to buy the top of the line from these manufacturers. Their value lines are usually pretty decent if you're not overclocking or doing weird things with your system. However, the no name crap RAM being pushed out is asking for headaches from your machine for months to come. More so if your system is dual channel.

If you're bound and determined to buy cheap shit, make sure there's a decent return policy on it. When you get home with it, run Memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/) for a couple of hours. If you come up with ANY errors, take it back.

Who are the top manufacturers of RAM? Is Kingston one? I just ordered a 1 gb of theirs for my laptop, so I better not have problems with it.

 

[Coqui]

Who are the top manufacturers of RAM? Is Kingston one? I just ordered a 1 gb of theirs for my laptop, so I better not have problems with it.

Crucial, Corsair, Mushkin

Kingston is good, just not the best.

 

[ERage]

Who are the top manufacturers of RAM? Is Kingston one? I just ordered a 1 gb of theirs for my laptop, so I better not have problems with it.

I've used Kingston in the past, it's okay...nothing spectacular but I've never had any crashes or failures because of Kingston RAM. I also have only used their RAM in a PC that was not going to be overclocked, never used their laptop memory before.

 

[water]

Did you know that George Washington Carver built the first computer out of a peanut? A PEANUT! -Dave Chappelle in Undercover Brother

 

[ERage]

The professor built PCs with nothing but Bamboo, vines, and coconuts.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

The Professor > MacGuyver

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

The Professor > MacGuyver

That fucker could figure out how to do anything.
Except how to fix a goddamn boat.

 

[Syrup Beaver]

That fucker could figure out how to do anything.
Except how to fix a goddamn boat.

Gilligan ate that part of his brain