Any strong feelings on memory brand?

[James]

I don't know. I find Crucial to be overrated. I have a liking to Gskill. All of my past and current builds have been with them and I still like them the best.

I use them for all of my desktop builds, but only because they were stable when Crucial Ballistix was terrible (Back in the DDR days). When I say Crucial, I only mean the generic plain green no heatsink mainstream stuff. I avoid Crucial's "performance" branded stuff like the plague.

In that realm of generic plain green PCB RAM though, I do switch between Crucial, Kingston, and G.Skill pretty interchangeably. At work for desktops, it was whatever was cheapest at the time from those 3 brands, for home I use G.Skill with the heatsinks.

For Servers I only use Crucial and Kingston.