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PNY RAM Quality

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T3hPreacher

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Jan 7, 2008
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I'm thinking about purchasing some PNY RAM (Fry's has 8 GB on sale for $35). I was wondering what sort of quality we're talking about here. MacMall also has some Kingston 4GB sticks on sale for $29 each, which would be entirely worth it if PNY has quality issues. I'm running into mixed reviews in other places, so was wondering what the experience of MacRumors users has been.

I know Kingston has a great reputation, so I don't need to know much about that (unless you've got any advice on how PNY stacks up against it!).

Thanks!
 
Newegg has Corsair and G.Skill 8GB kits for a few dollars more. I haven't checked today, but I think they were around $40.
 
I always thought pny was janky because, back in the day, office depot used to sell their memory and video cards which were extremely overpriced. Their usb thumb drives used to always die on me. For me i'd say your best bet vendor wise is the following based on my experiences:
1. OEM (always tested)
2. Crucial
3 . G.Skill (RMA process is a pain)
4. Kingston
....
35. PNY
 
Eddyisgreat said:
I always thought pny was janky because, back in the day, office depot used to sell their memory and video cards which were extremely overpriced. Their usb thumb drives used to always die on me. For me i'd say your best bet vendor wise is the following based on my experiences:
1. OEM (always tested)
2. Crucial
3 . G.Skill (RMA process is a pain)
4. Kingston
....
35. PNY
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Thanks a lot! What do you think about Corsair or Patriot?
 
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Just thought I'd point out that PNY has some of the best quality high class (think 8/10) high capacity MicroSDs (16gb/32gb).
 
Just to throw my 2 cents into the pot, I am running the same 8gb Ram in my 2010 MBP for the past 8 months and I have had no issues at all.
 
RAM is more or less a commodity, there's only a few chip manufactures to begin with, so brand X, brand Y, and brand Z are most likely using the same chips...

Get whatever's cheapest.
 
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