Gaming Corsair or Kingston memory?

[Harsky]

My laptop needs an upgrade so I'm going to try upgrading it from 1gb to 2gb RAM. My question is, which is better, Corsair or Kingston?

 

[deathfisaro]

For gaming purposes I'd recommend Corsair.

 

[arctic_flame]

Corsair.

But the difference is very minimal, so if you want to spend very slightly less, Kingston is fine.

 

[juggernaut911]

i heard corsair was good for gaming but I used kingston to save a couple bucks. my machine games fine with kingston. I'd stick with kingston for my next build too

 

[Trolly]

Kingston is usually the cheaper option, just make sure you're getting a decent bit of RAM from them, as some can be a bit slow. Corsair is just that little bit faster. Unless you're going to notice that split-second difference, I say don't bother.

The price of high speed RAM is ridiculous for the miniscule amount of speed gain you get anyway.

 

[xJonny]

Corsair's XMS2 is excellent and great value for money, Kingston Valueram is good if you want to save a bit, hyperx, etc. costs quite a bit more.

 

[Trolly]

Sorry for the off-topicness, but that song in your sig is awesome Jonnyx! What's the name of it?

 

[Mentz]

I always prefer Kingston, assembled/builted in Japan... (the ones made in china are a little bit slow or less performing)

 

[Harsky]

In the end, I ended up going for a Kingston 2gb RAM. My previous setup consisted of 2 x 512mb RAM so I just put in the single 2gb RAM alongside with one 512mb RAM to get 2.5GB RAM.... and it doesn't feel any different. Sure, it started my Vista up a little faster but what situations would having more RAM help?

 

[Lee79]

In the end, I ended up going for a Kingston 2gb RAM. My previous setup consisted of 2 x 512mb RAM so I just put in the single 2gb RAM alongside with one 512mb RAM to get 2.5GB RAM.... and it doesn't feel any different. Sure, it started my Vista up a little faster but what situations would having more RAM help?

Gaming loading times and running multiple applications/programs at the same time which not many people do anyway.

 

[coolbho3000]

In the end, I ended up going for a Kingston 2gb RAM. My previous setup consisted of 2 x 512mb RAM so I just put in the single 2gb RAM alongside with one 512mb RAM to get 2.5GB RAM.... and it doesn't feel any different. Sure, it started my Vista up a little faster but what situations would having more RAM help?

You can have a lot more open applications, and resource intensive programs will be faster/more efficient (especially games).

 

[Gman 101]

Gaming loading times and running multiple applications/programs at the same time which not many people do anyway.

Program loading times is more of an HDD speed thing I believe... but it's definitely a must to have more ram if you wanna multitask (which I do all the time).

 

[coolbho3000]

Gaming loading times and running multiple applications/programs at the same time which not many people do anyway.

Program loading times is more of an HDD speed thing I believe... but it's definitely a must to have more ram if you wanna multitask (which I do all the time).

I know BF2's loading times really depended on the amount of RAM.

 

[TheWingless]

I used to have 2X512MB with Vista, but I upgraded to 2.5GB with a Patriot and now there's enough RAM to play some newer games and be able to alt-tab without it taking so long to get back to my desktop. Probably because Vista was not using all of the RAM it needed at first with 1 GB? So if you have a game that takes a while to Alt-Tab out of, you could see if that goes faster I guess. Not too sure about this.