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Posted by
Toby Crundwell
on November 08, 2001
Manufacturers: Crucial
Technology / Crucial
UK & OCZ
Tech
Search
for Memory
prices here.
Availability
Unlike
the OCZ Titan I reviewed a short time ago, OCZ memory seems
to be rather more widely available. Of the nine American
retailers marked up to distribute OCZ RAM, eight had it
directly available and the ninth had a vague description of
DDR memory that might or might not have been OCZ. Prices
ranged from $21.95 to $55.00, with a favourite seeming to be
$32.99. None of the international distributors had OCZ
memory listed on their sites.
The
challenge with Crucial memory however is finding a computer
retailer that does not stock it (or also available directly
from them). Prices range from $27 to
$44, but mostly $29.69. Unlike OCZ RAM, Crucial is widely
available internationally as well as in America.
Conclusion
There’s
not much in it, but the OCZ RAM seems to offer slightly
superior performance for a similar price (presuming the rest
of my system would have allowed a FSB of over 120Mhz). The
Crucial memory however is generally cheaper, and of course
the memory is more reputable. You can’t really go wrong
with either memory though; both are inexpensive and allow
for practically all the FSB overclocking the average system
can take. The only big failure of Crucial that I can find is
that overclocking invalidates the warranty (but I won’t
tell them I overclocked if you won’t). There is no mention
of this on OCZ's site. Go and buy either of these memory
sticks while they’re so cheap!
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