Why you should buy Corsair

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Like a few people i thought some brands just charge more for the name. Corsair on the other hand i found is different. I bought some RAM over 3 years ago and it started producing errors. Then, it stopped working, i thought the worst. Went onto the corsair site and found that i could RMA to them very easily. After 2 weeks i got back the same type RAM except working, with only a couple pound spent. If you are going to buy RAM, buy corsair, great RMA service and quick response, worth the extra couple £ IMO.
 
Hey that is good that you managed to replace your faulty RAM, very quick.

But that can be the same for OCZ. I have found there RMA service to be first class also, and they replaced my faulty memory in a 7 day turn around.
 
thats good to hear as ive got 8gb or corsair ram in my rig :D

not sure how old it is though....might be over 4 years now.
 
Its good when RMA works, and you get great customer service.

Maybe we should have a name and shame of the crap ones out there. So that way we dont buy there products.
 
+1 Corsair

and good idea about name and shame.

Perhaps good customer thread and bad customer service thread in the hardware sections based on warranty returns etc.
 
i must admit

Corsair RMA services are excellent but other manufacturers like OCZ and Kingston are very very good too.
 
Ive just had a very similar experience with Corsair. Makes me happy that most the rigs Ive built have some of their parts in lol.
 
The only RAM I've ever had to RMA was Elixir Major 3rd and that arrived faulty on purchase, so learned my lesson right there and then.

Been branded OCZ and Corsair series RAM ever since. Last kit of RAM was DDR2 1066 Dominator C5, and that stuff was indestructable!

Edit: Just thought I'd say that my new X58 based PC will have Corsair RAM as well thanks to the Dominator experience :)
 
Had great RMA from Crucial and Coolermaster, but in my experince OCZ suck...still have an on going RMA from NOV 2009...
 
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Like a few people i thought some brands just charge more for the name. Corsair on the other hand i found is different. I bought some RAM over 3 years ago and it started producing errors. Then, it stopped working, i thought the worst. Went onto the corsair site and found that i could RMA to them very easily. After 2 weeks i got back the same type RAM except working, with only a couple pound spent. If you are going to buy RAM, buy corsair, great RMA service and quick response, worth the extra couple £ IMO.
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Crucial, Kingston, OCZ and most of the other provide identically good service.

Corsair really do charge more for exactly the same, the fastest/best RMA service I've had is from OCZ, I got the new 600W pci-e cabled psu years ago, apparently because of active PFC(they didn't/don't use it in the states back then) the EU model was louder than it should have been, it was quieter than my old psu but not as silent as it was supposed to be but I didn't think it was a problem, just reviewers over stating the quietness.

OCZ went on their forums, and others and asked if anyone wanted an exchange for a new version thats quieter when using active PFC, I thought why not, got a new psu a couple days after sending mine out, quieter, and is still going strong probably 5 years later or so.

Same thing with some OCZ mem, sent it out, came back with a new working pair in a few days. Crucial used to cross ship stuff aswell so they'd put in an order, send stuff out, if you didn't send the old stuff back they'd charge your CC, if they receive the broken memory its all done, though they've stopped doing that.

Basically MOST of the decent memory companies offer lifetime gaurentee, very quick and simple RMA, Corsair just charge more for it than anyone else.

There was maybe a year, possibly even 2, maybe a decade ago that Corsair were the "first" company who binned the crap out of memory, actively went after better types of chips and sold overclockable memory, and they sure as heck screwed you on price back then, even though you could still get generic sticks with bh-5 back then at a fraction of the cost of Corsair that was just as good.

Move forwards 5 years and Corsair offer less choice often and no better at the very least than a dozen other high end memory companies, yet they still charge more than anyone else for EVERYTHING they sell, another 5 years later and people still pay a premium for the same stuff everyone else sells.

Very few people buy corsair when they want the absolute fastest most overclockable memory sticks you can find, (and pay through the teeth for it) Corsair isn't really "that" company, they offer the same basic stuff OCZ, Mushkin, Patriot, G-skill, Kingston Geil and another half dozen companies offer, yet invariably charge more.

Personally I regard Corsair as the worst of the top brands, purely because they've always charged more for the same stuff pretending to be better than everyone elses.

I'm trying to think to be honest, across 20 odd computers for myself, and 2-3 fold that for friends/family over the past decade I've RMA'd, OCZ, G-skill, Crucial, Kingston and twinmos memory and never had an issue at all. With memory frankly almost every company I've come across ships the second they get the memory sent in, the time/expense of testing is likely not worth it so they just send out new stuff, occasionally worse stuff, like after bh-5 was gone you couldn't get the same quality, normally better things. The only issue was G-skill, it was actually quick sending and receiving from Taiwan or something like that, the only problem was it arrived right before the new year I think so took an extra 4-5 days before it got sent out.

Generally the only time RMA's get delayed or really heavily looked into is when theres very suspicious looking damage, having worked in an RMA department those are few and far between and normally very obvious.
 
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Well after my current RAM issues: see thread

I can safely say I will never buy OCZ again as its the first OCZ product I've had and it was faulty out the box. Personally I don't want to have to RMA at all - especially as a uni student I can't go 7 days without a pc as I have work to do... First impressions count for me.

However Corsair +1, every product I've had from them be it RAM, PSUs, the H50 has been top notch :)
 
Had a great experience with Crucial's RMA service.

Will make me buy from them in the future.
 
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