Corsair Value Select 2GB DDR SDRAM Memory Module

Quality memory at an affordable price

Strengths: High quality. Solid performance. Stable. Dual Channel Ready. Good price. Excellent value.

Weakness: Limited speed. Minimal overclocking potential.

Corsair is well known in the computer memory industry, and for good reason! Corsair has made it a habit to produce high quality items, and this memory kit is yet another in a long line of excellent products. This kit does exactly what it is supposed to do: provides 2gb of stable memory for your computer. I've been using the kit for about two months now, and I'm very happy. My computer handles...
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Corsair is well known in the computer memory industry, and for good reason! Corsair has made it a habit to produce high quality items, and this memory kit is yet another in a long line of excellent products. This kit does exactly what it is supposed to do: provides 2gb of stable memory for your computer.

I've been using the kit for about two months now, and I'm very happy. My computer handles intense programs like Adobe Photoshop more smoothly, and multitasking has benefitted as well. Keep in mind, however, that this memory is geared for the budget / value audience. If you're looking to play the newest games or edit video, you would be better off with high performance memory.

This memory cost $100 after rebates at Fry's Electronics. Prior to this memory kit, I was running 1gb (2x512mb) of Mushkin SP3200 Enhanced Memory.

By mike27112 - Feb 25, 2006

Great Budget RAM

Strengths: cheap, moderate speeds, good manufacturer, lifetime warranty

Weakness: no heatspreader (although that's not really necessary), slightly slow

Corsair is a great company that produces RAM that all computer enthusiasts know of because of its quality. This Value Select module kit is not as fast as other, more expensive RAM. With speeds of 3-3-3-8, the fact that this is VALUE memory, this is to be expected. Speeds are much faster than the Kingston VS RAM. This RAM is recommended for anyone that doesn't need the best timings. There is...
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Corsair is a great company that produces RAM that all computer enthusiasts know of because of its quality. This Value Select module kit is not as fast as other, more expensive RAM. With speeds of 3-3-3-8, the fact that this is VALUE memory, this is to be expected. Speeds are much faster than the Kingston VS RAM. This RAM is recommended for anyone that doesn't need the best timings. There is surely some overclocking headroom, but not as much as something like the Corsair XMS series.

By drhaibane - Jan 1, 2006

Best Value DDR kit

Strengths: fast

Weakness: none

I got them for $99 after rebates on outpost.com. After adding 2gb of rams into my pc (already with 2gb), all the heavy loaded applications such as photoshop loads even faster. My Pc is now Turbo charged with 4gb rams. Basically the more ram you have, the OS will use less virtual drive from your HD for application swaping. Of course, I'm not a heavy gamer but I use several screen (4 LCDs) on one...
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I got them for $99 after rebates on outpost.com. After adding 2gb of rams into my pc (already with 2gb), all the heavy loaded applications such as photoshop loads even faster. My Pc is now Turbo charged with 4gb rams.

Basically the more ram you have, the OS will use less virtual drive from your HD for application swaping. Of course, I'm not a heavy gamer but I use several screen (4 LCDs) on one PC to load at least 4-5 applications in in screen.

It is a good buy :) very reliable

By lostfire - Dec 30, 2005

Way better than other Value RAMs

Strengths: Very stable and reliable, overall a solid performer with 15% margin for OC. Plus, you get Corsair's Lifetime Warranty.

Weakness: Not really a complaint, but my Abit AN7 mobo which uses the old nForce2 Ultra chipset freezes memtest86's #5 test when set to run *under* 200MHz, with the modded BIOS (Enduracell 18DE 1T). Weird.

I got this DC kit at Fry's on the Day-after-Xmas deal. The kit uses BrainPower D68001H PCBs with Nanya chips dated on 0547, made in Taiwan. My initial impression at the store was "a bit disappointed" when I saw the 'unknown' chips, as I heard people who got the same kit a couple of months earlier than me had Samsung UCCC chips (which are known to OC'able beyond 250MHz.) Although back then the...
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I got this DC kit at Fry's on the Day-after-Xmas deal. The kit uses BrainPower D68001H PCBs with Nanya chips dated on 0547, made in Taiwan. My initial impression at the store was "a bit disappointed" when I saw the 'unknown' chips, as I heard people who got the same kit a couple of months earlier than me had Samsung UCCC chips (which are known to OC'able beyond 250MHz.) Although back then the price was still quite steep.

I went home and tested the memory right away. To my surprise, the kit could run quite stably at 220MHz with CL2.5 right out of box. With some minor tweaks on memory voltage, I could easily get it up at solid 225MHz/CL2.5 (2.5-3-3-9). This is not bad at all for GB-level sticks in DC setting! Then, I tried CL3.0 (3-3-3-9) and this kit could run stably at 235MHz! For the price I paid ($100 after rebate) I am very impressed with such results!

In order not to overburn the memory, I always recede a few MHz from the top stable OC speed I got for my 24/7 usage. So I settle at 230MHz/CL3.0, and this 2GB kit has been performing fabulously for all of my photo/video editing tasks. The solid performer delivers stability and reliability. I am quite satisfied, and deem this one of the best technological purchases I made last year.

By vws - Mar 18, 2006

good

Strengths: cheap

Weakness: no heat spreader

I thought that this memory kit was good and cheap. I would have liked it to have a heat spreader though. But for that price who cares....am I right?

By mindslave - Dec 26, 2005