Reputation is only as good as the person's experience with that company.

Hmm, the last thing I heard Corsair, Geil and Kingston do not even make their own memory components.

Interesting....BIAS perhaps??

Bit of a contradiction there mate.
They're taking Micron chips and slapping "Crucial" on the top. Admittedly, it is the same company, but with some different marketing and rebranding.

Well, that's how I see it anyway. Your definition of "rebranding" may differ.
Who's flaming chawk?
We're just stating what we know and experiences we've heard of with product.
Like I said above, many manufacturers source the chips from elsewhere.
Not at all! Our advice not only comes from our own experience, but from the words of praise of enthusiasts everywhere. Hit a few overclocker forums and you'll see what we mean.

Welcome to the forum fellas. Are you enthusiasts/professionals who are outraged at my comments or people from Crucial who have signed up to respond to my comments? Either way I hope you stick around, offer help and advice, and engage in debate here

My earlier comments, made back in April, were as acknowledged a tad hasty. 'Twas a rather busy time for me and the implication of my comment is incorrect. Crucial is, as you say, a dicision of Micron rather than a module assembler who sources RAM chips willy-nilly.

Nevertheless, I see no reason to add them to my list of 'preferred' brands. Micron may enjoy favour from big-name system manufacturers, but they don't enjoy the same degree of favour from performance entusiasts/ overclockers, as Coconut Monkey has pointed out. The brand names I listed earlier are widely acknowledged as the brands most likely to have wide compatibility with motherboards.

I"m a little curious why someone would respond to a thread that hasn't been active for four months, much less two new people espousing the virtues of Crucial. :-|

Hi, as the original thread starter, I was surprised myself to get any more replies.

Thanks chawk02 for the recommendations - allbeit a little too late for my benefit! I'm sure other people will get benefit from your advice.

Just for the record, I resold the ram module with no problems - don't think I even lost any money either, in buying and then selling the ram.

The pc was from a non-branded source. Maybe I could have modified the bios to accept the ram - but the mobo manual showed that it would not work (I think).

I then bought a 512 mb module with 32M chips and everything works fine. The memory was not at fault - I was!

Best wishes,
Apprentice computer addict.