RAM question! Which is better?! OCZ vs. PNY

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  1. Maniax

    Maniax Member

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    Okay so I won a set of 2GB DDR2 Memory from New Egg Lan Fest. The cards are from PNY Technologies. There XLR8 Performance Editions.

    I really dont know much about RAM, on the 2 cards it says
    PC2-6400 3448 2.3V Rev. 1 on the back of them, and on the front of the boxk in the lower right hand corner it says 800MHz 3-4-4-8 2.3V
    I have no idea what that means, but thats what it says.

    Okay and so a couple of months ago I also won 4 Gigs of ram from Showdown Lan in San Jose.
    These are 4 cards are from OCZ Gold Edition XTC. On each card it says
    PC2 6400 1GB Daul Ch 5-5-5-12

    So I have 6 gigs of RAM. Way to much for me, but my brother also won the same 2Gigs of ram of PNY set as I did.
    I am trying to figure out if I should trade him my 4gigs of OCZ ram I got from Showdown for his 2 Gigs of the PNY Ram or should I just use the OCZ ram I got.
    I have no idea which is better.
    Thanks for reading, and if your confused on anything plz tell me.
     
  2. GrandpaBW

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    I have always thought that OCZ was top RAM, but someone else may drop in and say something different.

    Whatis a Lan Fest, and what did you do to win?
     
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  3. sammorris

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    Wow, LAN parties like giving away RAM don't they? That was the prize at our local event, but 1GB of Crucial Ballistix, not quite 4 gigs, good job!

    grandpa: a Lan fest is a massive get-together of PC gamers, and the 'winner' would be the person or team to win a tournament of events, for example deathmatches, or counter-strike rounds.
    I personally would stick with the OCZ.
     
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    Thanks, Sam. I knew that folks got together to play games, but I did not know that there were actual structured tournaments that gave prizes.
     
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    Depends on the event, but usually there are. For whatever reason it often seems to be RAM.
     
  6. Maniax

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    Alright you guys, this discussion is turning into something else.
    Since I haven't had my question answered yet.
    It doesnt seem like anyone here know's which RAM is better to use.
    Please someone out there justify this.
     
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    what about this then?
     
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    I was really looking for a geeky description of why and such, but thats okay I ultimately looked up the price for each and the 2sticks of PNY is $300 each compared to 2sticks of the OCZ wich is only $150 so im sticking with the PNY.
     

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