Q: cheap ram on VIA KT133 MBs???

[Vejita-sama]

Not sure where (if?) to ask this. I'm thinking about buying a new computer. Looking at pricewatch.com there's a lot of cheap no-name PC133 512MB SDRAMM chips for ~$40, that say they work with the VIA KT133 chipset.

Anyone here using a setup like this? I ask because the main/only reason I'm buying a new PC is to make VCDs (Tbird 1.2Ghz on ECS K7VZA MB http://www.escuas.com). If I had the money I could go corsair/micron/pny but if the cheap stuff works...

Thanks in advance

[patrickm]

i have an asus a7v133 with the KT133A, and i got a cheap 128M pc133 somewhere, and it didn't like it. i do however have 320Mb (128 of micron pc100, 128 of noname pc100, 64 is pc133 clocked down) in it now. even when i clocked down to 100Mhz, the cheap 128M 133 didn't work right. it did however work fine at 100Mhz in my friend's MVP3 chipset k6-2, so i just traded.

so if money's not an issue, go with some CAS2 PC133.

btw, i don't really think you need 512Mb for making VCDs, unless maybe you go up to 1.5Gb of ram and capture files to a "ramdrive" to eliminate disk bottlenecks or something, but even that doesn't seem practical since the usual bottleneck is CPU anyhow.

[Braindrain]

Ahh... I've got the KT chipset. Cheapy RAM works fine... as long as it's QUALITY cheapy RAM . Seriously, with the way RAM has dropped, buy Micron CAS2 stuff. $28 for 128MB stick, CAS2. (Something like that.) With FREE shipping too!

I'm using a generic (TI) Micron 128MB stick and a 256MB genuine Micron stick. Both running at CAS2 fine.

If you're making VCD's, overclock the CPU. All you really need is 256MB RAM.