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Ask YC: Where do you buy RAM?
I'm in the market for some RAM, and wondering where people usually buy their RAM.
- epi0Bauqu 18y agoI'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).
- izaidi 18y agoI use Crucial (http://crucial.com http://crucial.com). Usually pretty cheap and the service is terrific.
- gm 18y agoAnother vote for Crucial. It always works, and the price is great.
- epi0Bauqu 18y agoInteresting. 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=CT2KIT25672Y335 http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT2KIT25... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148119 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148...
- ComputerGuru 18y agoI only buy Crucial ram, but from NewEgg.
- nate 18y agoCrucial, Crucial, Crucial
- tstegart 18y agoSame here. Had no problems with them.
- ra 18y agoCrucial: Very fast (especially international) Great Quality Great Prices Genuine Guarantee
- ejs 18y agoI usually use Newegg.com but if you watch the deal sites (like slickdeals.net) you can get some very good deals on RAM
- icey 18y agoI 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.
- cdr 18y agoI 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.
- midnightmonster 18y agohttp://oempcworld.com/ http://oempcworld.com/ -- good prices and pretty good service.
- sanj 18y agoI've bought thousands of dollars of RAM at http://datamemorysystems.com/ 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.
- jon_dahl 18y agoI've used Other World Computing (http://www.macsales.com/ 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.
- gry 18y agoBought from them as well for 10 years. Never had a bad stick.
- fourlittlebees 18y agoAnother thumbs up from OWC. Awesome prices.
- Xichekolas 18y agonewegg.com or zipzoomfly.com or pricewatch.com
- weegee 18y agoI remember when zipzoomfly.com was googlegear.com. that was before I found newegg.com.
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- jcromartie 18y agoCraigslist. 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.
- prakash 18y agoCrucial + Mushkin
- fuckymcfuckfuck 18y agoI have one ram (purebred, Castlemilk Moorit)which services all my ewe's needs
- ucdaz 18y agoWell I'm located in the Bay Area, but you can get 2 GB of Crucial ram for $20 at Frys Electronics.
- lsc 18y agoI 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.
- ideamonk 18y agoI 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.