Any memory you want as long as it's Corsair!

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Am I missing something?

Personal experience has lead to me not being a fan of Corsair memory 3x lots of it, bad experiences with 2 of them), they have seemed to be the main RAM manufacturer for some years now but looking around at the moment there seems to be so little choice, it's mental!

Every etailer I can find does a FULL range of Corsair, with just a minor smattering of another make (usually Kingston and personally not a fan of them either).

So what's going on? Where has happened to Patriot, Geil, Adata, Mushkin, Super Talent, Transcend, Crucial...

I used Mushkin and Crucial for many years without any issues, had some Geil and Patriot stuff too that was good, now I feel like i'm being almost forced to buy Corsair.
 
smogsy said:
geil adata are still around crucial are huge too but not from Ocuk for some reason.
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Or ANY other UK etailers that I have seen, all 8 of the companies in my list do Corsair, half do Kingston and a few do Gskill or Crucial. OCUK do some Team as well but have not found a single supplier selling Geil or the others I mentioned!

It's just that i'm about to build a new PC and have had some memory conflict issues in the last few builds and Geil EvoX has been tested/recommended with Ryzen.
 
Monstermunch said:
Or ANY other UK etailers that I have seen, all 8 of the companies in my list do Corsair, half do Kingston and a few do Gskill or Crucial. OCUK do some Team as well but have not found a single supplier selling Geil or the others I mentioned!

It's just that i'm about to build a new PC and have had some memory conflict issues in the last few builds and Geil EvoX has been tested/recommended with Ryzen.
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Corsair vengence LPX was sent out by AMD too and gskill FlareX has been recommended by them too
 
Dunno why Kingston gets so overlooked - occasionally some compatibility issues due to some reason somehow being less prominent but they make some solid RAM.

I've gone back to them after flirting with OCZ when they made actual special stuff like the OCZ Blade series and so far haven't let me down other than once or twice in builds using more obscure motherboards that had some compatibility issue.
 
Monstermunch said:
Cheers but just try and find any UK reseller that sells anything above the 2400mhz, I've just checked the 8 I know and nobody sells anything other than the 2133mhz or 2400mhz versions...

It's Corsair or nowt!
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well the reason OCUK do not sell g.skill is they have very bad supply of their products
 
Rroff said:
Dunno why Kingston gets so overlooked - occasionally some compatibility issues due to some reason somehow being less prominent but they make some solid RAM.

I've gone back to them after flirting with OCZ when they made actual special stuff like the OCZ Blade series and so far haven't let me down other than once or twice in builds using more obscure motherboards that had some compatibility issue.
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TBH, I'm fed up with being treated like a ginuea pig by the parts manufacturers. If it's designed to work with a motherboard chipset then it should work, no excuses and I'm fed up with Corsair and Kingston for their constant compatibility issues and will never buy either again.

Sorry, rant over...

smogsy said:
well the reason OCUK do not sell g.skill is they have very bad supply of their products
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Seems that many manufacturers do, about 30% or more of the components listed are "out of stock"
 
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I know some recent events like earthquakes, etc. have disrupted some of the factories/fabs for some brands dunno if its more than that. Some of the smaller production operators that some brands use have ramped down to merge into a new bigger single company as well.
 
Personally, I think the whole situation is a little chicken and egg to be honest. I'm not blaming OCUK, others in the UK are a lot worse only stocking one make of RAM. It's almost like only deciding to sell Intel CPU's or Nvidia Gfx cards, it's completely retarded! Looking at stock in other countries like America, they don't seem to have a problem getting supply from other manufacturers and I think it comes down to the following:

Put yourself in the smaller RAM manufacturers shoes, you have clients in one country who keep a full range of your products and order regularly and then you have clients in the UK who sometimes want to buy sometimes not and only keep a limited selection and fully stock a range offered by one of your competitors. Then you have a scenario where demand is equal to or slightly higher than manufacturing capacity... Which of your clients would you give priority to??????!!!!!

I know it must be a nightmare at the moment for stockists, given the enormous range of speeds and kit sizes to also offer alternative brands but then why also keep the 5x different LED coloured variants of the same RAM. I'm sure the majority of customers would prefer an alternative brand to an alternative colour!

Looking around it's also worth noting that a lot of manufacturers have fallen way behind, there are actually only about 5 people from what I can see who even manufacture high end DDR4 RAM. A lot of manufacturers seem to top out their range at 2666mhz. Even the likes of Crucial do not offer a 2x16gb Kit of 3200mhz RAM and their RAM was everywhere about 10 years ago, try and find a stockist now.
 
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mattyfez said:
I've had Kingston, corsair, Samsung, ocz and team group.
I really don't care what make it is if it's the right price and spec.
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same here - fancy rgb ram is nice and all that but for the most part ram is ram and hidden away so usually price and spec does it for me, irrespective who the manufacturer is
 
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