Memory from Crucial.com

Advantages: Excellent Reputation, Memory Selector Wizard
Disadvantages: Although low, prices were higer than competition

...Having recently purchased a second personal computer to benefit from BT Broadband?s networking option, I realised I would need additional memory, in order for my computer to work competently when downloading files of the internet. My current computers specification is 96MB Ram, and I was looking to upgrade by purchasing an additional 512MB. As I work for a computer software company, I was instantly directed by a few colleagues onto the crucial.com website. *Crucial Technology* Crucial Technology Europe is a division of Micron Semiconductor Products, Inc and was launched by Micron in November 1996. Their basis was to be able to sell high-quality memory direct from the Manufacturers to the end users. *Crucial.com Website* The Crucial website is very user-friendly. A Selection bar at the top of the page allows users to...

kelr101 26.04.2004 (18.02.2005) · Read review
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Crucial 4GB USB drive

Advantages: backup, save important work, easy to transfer work or files from one pc to another
Disadvantages: none

...This Crucial Gizmo is great for anyone looking to backup there files up to 4GB. I have had this device for over a year now and it?s been great. You can save anything from pictures, music, videos, Photoshop files, pretty much anything you can think of really to this device. I backed up a few file drivers from one PC and placed them on to another PC, which worked great. This saved the hassle of writing a CD with the files I needed to place on to another PC which I would have probably only used once as well. This device is basically like having 6 CDS worth of data on or just under. The device is really easy to use, you basically plug the device into the USB slot and go to my computer, and where it says Devices and removable storage your device name will be listed e.g. Crucial. All you do from there is open up the storage device...

gremenis 16.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Crucial Gizmo! USB flash drive - 4 GB

In the words of Prince "Crucial; think I want you"

Advantages: Good price, prompt delivery, and "fairly" easy to install
Disadvantages: No written instructions with product & didn't fit in first slot

...couldn't remeber the name, the following day they returned with a little leaflet, the website was Crucial. I understood that you downloaded a little application that scanned your system and told you exactly what you had got and what you could have. I googled Crucial - the UK site (as there is an American one), and there on the homepage was the download tool (bang in the middle of the page), I pannicked abit seeing a selection of three drop down menus next to this with a zillion choices - but no fear - do not bother with these and just agree to the terms and conditions for the tool and download, within no more than 30 seconds it came up with a page that knew what my PC was the memory that was in it, how many spares slots I had and what memory I could replace this with. In addition it also advises that max memory you can go to. And a few...

dotjay19 08.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Crucial RAM 1GB DDR PC3200

A Crucial purchase?

Advantages: Lifetime warranty
Disadvantages: None

...If my memory serves me well then it must be Crucial, for the past 2 years i have used Crucials 2100 DDR and was amazed with it from the very first moment that i placed my order (directly at www.crucial.com/uk) after reading a little on the website i discovered that all their memory modules (RAM) come with a limited lifetime warranty which basically means that as long as you dont mistreat the memory chip then you are covered for life! Crucials website is so well laid out that you can select your motherboard and then be greeted with a selection of modules that will work perfectly for you in your chosen motherboard, guarenteed. I bought a 512mb chip of PC 2100 (DDR 266) with a cas rating of 2.5 and immediately decided to tighten up the memory timings to 2-6-6-6 to see how stable the memory was, well needless to say that i am still to...

Rabid 30.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Crucial memory - 512 MB - DIMM 184-PIN - DDR

It's Crucial

Advantages: Very reliable, good quality, 10% discount, free delivery, very good prices
Disadvantages: Pink foam? Call me pedantic but Hey..

...One of the first rules of computing is that you can never have enough memory. The second of course is that you never have enough disk space. Never trust anyone who tells you otherwise, especially that dodgy seller who assures you his second-hand 80486 100MHz with 8MB RAM will 'sufficiently meet your ultimate gaming needs' :) Windows (which most of us probably use) is a memory hungry thing, and hogs all it can get. With Windows 95/98, 32MB is recommended to be the minimum, with 64MB giving comfortable performance. Windows ME requires around 128MB for good performance, and if you have Windows 2k Advanced Server you better have 256MB! Of course if you use Unix you'll only need a few KB of memory for vim or pico ;) Memory is a crucial component of any PC, and getting enough of it is important if you want optimum performance. If you...

psiclone 20.08.2001 · Read review
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Another Crucial purchase?

Advantages: Still fast enough for todays games, Crucials service is 2nd to none, very cheap
Disadvantages: Unavailable direct form Crucials website (but still can be found)

...As any gamer will tell you having a fast, capable graphics card is essential to maintaining constantly high frame rates whilst playing games, price is very often a major deciding factor and finding the right priced card whilst not sacrificing too heavily on performance is usually what most people tend to opt for, the Crucial Radeon 8500 128mb LE meets those requirements perfectly. Two years ago i bought this graphics card direct from Crucials website... http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.asp ...for just under £200 and was totally over the moon with it, at that time it was pretty much top-of-the-range and was more than fast enough to handle any game that was currently on sale (as you might expect), two years later and not alot has changed except the price for this pocket-rocket of a PC graphics card has taken a very major nose dive...

Rabid 18.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Crucial Radeon 8500LE

Crucial upgrade is at hand

Advantages: Very fast and free delivery, great support for all systems, great prices!
Disadvantages: None.

...It was just like Christmas day (it's almost Christmas) and for my present I thought I would buy myself some RAM to keep ahead of the times. I intentionally ordered early so that I could get it in time for Christmas as I thought this whole online shopping mumbo jumbo could take some time being Christmas and all. How wrong was I! I ordered on Sunday evening 512MB of PC133 SDMRAM and it came early Tuesday morning by Royal Mail Special Deliver (at no extra cost). At that point it really felt like Christmas morning. This is a definitely THE company to order Memory from as it's ordering process is so simple and so efficient in every way possible. If you're like some people who dont know as much about the internal workings of your machine then Crucial is a must. It's web-site has drop-down menus where you can select your manufacturer...

Spike5792 18.12.2001 · Read review
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Even an idiot like me can do it with Crucial...

Advantages: Cheap, great range, brilliant service, fast free delivery, quality memory
Disadvantages: None

...for the privilege of having it professionally installed and it would mean lugging my computer to the shop or sending it away. Since the PC magazines insisted it was an easy job, I decided to upgrade. I chose Crucial just because I'd seen an ad and I decided to try there first. Their website was fast to load and easy to navigate, and I was delighed to see it would help me find which type of memory I needed as I was horrified to see how many different types of RAM there are out there! Sadly I hit a bit of a hurdle, as the pull-down list of manufacturers names didn't list my PC's make. I was a bit disappointed but decided to e-mail them. I told them my system make, processor type, operating system, current amount of RAM and approximately when I bought it, but I was worried this wouldn't be enough. Lo and behold, the same day they'd mailed me back...

sparkydog 07.09.2001 · Read review
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EXTRA DISCOUNT for RAM - Crucial...

Advantages: Get the right memory for your machine, free next-day delivery.
Disadvantages: No disadvantages noted.

...It couldn't be easier than at Crucial... If you've got a crosshead screwdriver then you can be assured that you can't go wrong. At Crucial's UK website http://www.crucial.com/uk/ you can search for the type of memory you need by type and it's very quick and simple to order on-line. If you don't know what kind of memory you need (SIMM, DIMM etc) then you can select what kind of computer you have and it will tell you the kinds of memory which will work in it! A very simple idea, but great for those who aren't sure of what will and won't work in their computer. Crucial even guarantee that if they sell you the wrong kind of memory for your computer then you can send it back free of charge which I think gives the consumer excellent peace-of-mind. BEST of all, if you go to http://www.crucial.com/uk/webpromo then you get an EXTRA...

Andrew.Self 28.09.2001 · Read review
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'Crucial' Upgrade?

Advantages: Speed, stability, image quality
Disadvantages: No RAM cooling - not much else!

.... The Crucial flavour of the card is close to the ATI reference design, with 128Mb of RAM onboard, a small heatsink-fan assembly and no heatsinks on the RAM. Although 256Mb variants are available in the Radeon range, in practice there's very little software (if any) that can take advantage of such a huge amount of video RAM and, at least for me, was not worth the additional cost on what is already an expensive card. The active cooling is quiet and effective at stock speeds to mild overclocks. For more aggressive overclocking a beefier HSF (or watercooling) plus passive cooling of the RAM chips would be required...but when you see the stock performance you may, like me, decide not to risk your costly new pride and joy with overclocking experiments... In my overclocked AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton system, running at 2.4GHz, the card delivers 3d2k1SE...

anthonyi 02.02.2004 · Read review
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