Memory
We’ve decided to include stats on memory modules for the first time. Here, first, are the stats per brand:
- Kingston 0.47%
- G.Skill 1.46%
- Crucial 1.70%
- Corsair 2.19%
- OCZ 2.56%
Kingston is at the head of the list, by a long way, followed by G.Skill. Some will argue that Kingston sells less high end memory than the others, which may be true but if you look only at the rates for HyperX memory, you get 0.84% returns. In contrast, if you take out the Values (0.83%) from Corsair’s figures, you get a rate of 3.44%.
Here are the kits of bars with returns at above 5%:
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2 GB DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 BL2KIT12864AL1065 16.3%
- OCZ Value 2 GB DDR2-SDRAM PC2-6400 OCZ2V8002GK 9.8%
- Corsair Dominator 2 GB DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 TWIN2X2048-8500C5D 8.5%
- Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 GB DDR3-SDRAM PC12800 TWIN3X2048-1600C7DHX 8.3%
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2 GB DDR2-SDRAM PC6400 BL2KIT12864AL80A 6.7%
- Corsair Dominator 4 GB DDR2-SDRAM PC8500 TWIN2X4096-8500C5D 5.9%
- Corsair XMS2 DHX 4 GB DDR2-SDRAM PC6400 TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX 5.2%
- Corsair XMS3 DHX 2 GB DDR3-SDRAM PC12800 TW3X2048-1600C9DHX 5.2%
Unfortunately the big names are not necessarily any guarantee of reliability. Crucial gets a very bad score on its PC8500 Ballistix Tracer, but Corsair doesn’t do a great deal better.
