Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

[Big Pope]

Is it a good brand? I bought with very cheap price from someone last year........

[willawake]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

i have never seen that brand.
looks like a real interesting company http://www.netlistinc.com/
has samsung chips. i have never had issue with samsung ram.

i just bought 2x1gb transcend. unfortunately one stick is samsung chips and the other is hynix...... both are good brands though.

[Big Pope]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

i have never seen that brand.
looks like a real interesting company http://www.netlistinc.com/
has samsung chips. i have never had issue with samsung ram.

i just bought 2x1gb transcend. unfortunately one stick is samsung chips and the other is hynix...... both are good brands though.

Oh, thanks. NETLIST seems a brand in U.S.A. As i know, Transcend is Taiwan ram factory, the quality is so good. However, i don't understand why you are not bought the ram with same brand chips? You buy together or not?

[Newbie2]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

This is common. PQI along with other manufacturers like NETLIST buy RAM chips from a RAM manufacturer and then "assemble" the RAM module. One manufacturer I think makes their own RAM chips and puts it on their own RAM modules is Micron.

[Rainbow]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

There are also Samsung memory modules, but Samsung also sells the chips to other module manufacturers.

[willawake]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

most companies that make ram produce their own sticks. micron sticks are branded crucial. twinmos use their own chips and are reliable,

the only problem is when you see a generic stick with all samsung chips for instance and no samsung brand sticker. who are you gonna call for rma. lifetime warranty yeh.

anyway i buy a lot of transcend cos it is reliable and cheap, availability is good and rma through a major chain here no probs. usually it is their jetram brand chips or more recently transcend chips. i was suprised to see samsung and hynix on their sticks. perhaps it is cheaper to buy from the majors than make your own.

i will check these sticks and see if they work dual channel otherwise i have the option of return or sell them to a customer some time along the line heh. yes they were the last 1gb sticks in the shop unless i wanted to pay more for OCZ.

i dont need fast ram cos my D975PBZLK doesnt like that i just want 2gb to see if it improves my photoshop performance. i know i am working with a gig swap sometimes.

[Rainbow]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

I used to buy M.tec modules when they were available. It was TwinMos cheap brand, IIRC, both modules and chips marked M.tec. The interesting thing is that the chips on PC133 modules are 6ns (or at least marked so ...something-6). I've tried overclocking with one of these modules and it worked fine up to 150MHz (CL3 IIRC) Of course, they run at 133MHz with CL2. Not bad for cheap brand.

[kc8adu]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

most companies that make ram produce their own sticks. micron sticks are branded crucial. twinmos use their own chips and are reliable,

the only problem is when you see a generic stick with all samsung chips for instance and no samsung brand sticker. who are you gonna call for rma. lifetime warranty yeh.

lots of those lifetime warranties are worthless.too many weasle words and gotchas.i wont buy noname stuff to save 5 bucks a stick when i can get name brand stuff with a warranty i can expect to be honored in the rare case it fails.

[willawake]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

yes and actually if i have had a part fail quickly i might not even want to use an identical part received after successful rma. things like ram/hdd fails etc mean several hours of work to reinstall windows. no sense to save money buying generic parts for office/customer machines especially.

here is a generic stick of sdram bought in desperation one day. The chips are Micron and look nice. The company who assembled the stick is unknown from the packaging. the part failed after a few months making crashes and corruption.



so the above type of generic is what would not be recommended to buy.

one thing i look for in ram presently is the packaging. i have seen store employees wrap loose sticks in foil or use normal static filled bags to package the ram. they dont wear wrist straps when handling the loose ram and might take sticks out to show customers many times before one gets bought.

so i look for proper sealed packages like below which show kingston ram packages and transcend.



another factor is returns. some stores just put them back on the shelves, so when a package is still factory sealed you know that did not happen. nothing like going all the way to a customers premises for a repair and finding you brought a broken returned part.

[Big Pope]

Re: Anyone know about NETLIST Ram?

Mircon -75E Good. That's the good chips in SDRAM.

I also keep a pair good SDRAM for testing. MOSEL PC133 CL2: