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Ask YC: Where do you buy RAM?

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I'm in the market for some RAM, and wondering where people usually buy their RAM.

I use Crucial (http://crucial.com). Usually pretty cheap and the service is terrific.

Another vote for Crucial. It always works, and the price is great.

Interesting. For what I'm looking for, Crucial is charging $550, and the exact same model number (of crucial memory) is $379 on newegg.com:

http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2KIT25...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...

I only buy Crucial ram, but from NewEgg.

Crucial, Crucial, Crucial

Same here. Had no problems with them.

Crucial: Very fast (especially international) Great Quality Great Prices Genuine Guarantee

I usually use Newegg.com but if you watch the deal sites (like slickdeals.net) you can get some very good deals on RAM

I go to newegg for just about everything. Occasionally you'll find a better deal elsewhere, but newegg is consistently priced pretty competitively and it's just not worth the time a lot of times for a savings of a few bucks.

I use deal sites, but I check regularly rather than waiting until I need it. Just recently I picked up 2GB for $10 AR - that's pretty decent, you have to admit. On the other hand, this had led to me having several extra GB sitting around.

I've used Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com/) for 5-10 RAM purchases over the years. Good prices and I've never had a reliability problem. Mac focused, though RAM is generally RAM.

Bought from them as well for 10 years. Never had a bad stick.

Another thumbs up from OWC. Awesome prices.

I've bought thousands of dollars of RAM at http://datamemorysystems.com/

The one time I had issues (some very early gig chips for a AlBook), they fixed it quickly.

Cheap, reliable and friendly.

I use newegg.com, mostly because I'm really, really picky about ECC- I use unbuffered ECC in everything. Only a little more expensive than non-ecc- the biggest problem is that most places don't stock it. newegg does.

If I was using non-ecc, I'd wait for a sale at Fry's (though I'd still make sure to buy corsair or crucial or some other reputable brand) - I get most of my hard drives at Fry's- I tried ordering 'em from newegg, and the packaging (on the hard drives) was horribly bad. the drives were ok, but that was luck.

Craigslist. People that have just upgraded their laptop or desktop sell the old RAM for next to nothing. If nothing fits the bill on CL then it's off to Newegg.

Sorry, I flagged this accidentally. (I tried out the new feature before reading about it.) Please do not take offense.

Is there any way to unflag? Thanks.

Unflagging is now implemented.

That was fast.

Did I just see a 'repl' comment from pg? ;)

Anyway - I was more amazed that I catched the moment when I went from complaint to feature. I am used to your speed by now.

Arc-speed development in action, right?

I buy from local shops in SP road, in Bangalore while in Delhi I used to buy from nehru place. Both these places are known for electronics goods at cheap rate in India.

I'm interested in where people go in general, but in particular I'm personally looking for 4 GB (2x2GB) ECC DDR SDRAM (at least PC2100).

http://oempcworld.com/ -- good prices and pretty good service.

Well I'm located in the Bay Area, but you can get 2 GB of Crucial ram for $20 at Frys Electronics.

newegg.com or zipzoomfly.com or pricewatch.com

I remember when zipzoomfly.com was googlegear.com. that was before I found newegg.com.

Crucial + Mushkin

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