Crucial Technology

I thought of keeping a dedicated computer for streaming and watching movies and that should be near to my AV receiver and considered the below points a. The HTPC size should considerably the same size as my AV receiver. When I search on Internet I come to know that HTPC cases which accommodates miniATX, miniITX mother boards that is suitable for my space. b. Also I have 7.2 Ch home theater system and decided that the mother broad should have 7.1 Ch output with 4 K Video support over HDMI. c. I want to upgrade the RAM later and want 4 DIMM slots. d. If I want to upgrade the storage then I should have option to add internal hard drive inside the case. e. Don't want to over clock the CPU and decided to go with H170 intel chipset motherboard with 1151 socket. f. Front panel USB g. Economical but don't want sacrifice the features Considering all the above I compared Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock and cost and feature that I was expecting I end of choosing the below parts 1. Motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B012N6LM1Y?ref_=pe_584750_33951330 This above mother board is a MicroATX board has 4 DIMM slots. This H170 intel chipset with 1151 socket board has HDMI with 7.1 Ch Audio and 4K video support along with 2 more display ports for computer monitor. Totally 3 display support. Doesn't have WIFi and Bluetooth and will not support over clocking. 2. Case : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EMSH9Q?ref_=pe_584750_33951330 This case supports MicroATX mother board and comes with 300W FlexATX power supply and one case fan. The case is strong and good quality has space for CD drive and internal hard drives. The power supply cpu connector has only 4 pin, Still it is suitable for the mother board's CPU's 8 pin connector(just plugged in only 4 of 8 pin) 3. CPU: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0136JON7M?ref_=pe_584750_33951330 The above CPU is Intel's 6th generation processor, Supports gaming and 4K video. This CPU comes with the Intel cooler. I think we no need any third party cooler for my purpose. 4. DDR4 RAM: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MMLUYQK?ref_=pe_584750_33951330 As per the above mentioned motherboard that supports only DDR4 on 4 slots, better to go with DDR4 which will give faster processing of the application tasks. I bought 8+8 2 DDR4 RAM as above and kept in 2 slots for now, later I can upgrade to another 8+8 DDR4 RAM later when price drops. Mother board manual says there 4 DIMM slots supports up to 64 GB, But the processor manual says it supports 32 GB max. So I decided to stick with 32 GB max. 5. SSD M.2:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NY4VIPA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s04 The above SSD is very tiny and go with mother board itself with m.2 connector. For better booting and rebooting and faster application response M.2 SSDs are very good and this is latest compare with SATA/eSATA. 6. Operating System - Ubuntu 15 (Linux based) This OS is free and open source. It has nice look and navigation. No need to install any driver software for the above components or motherboard. The OS detects all of them fine. The media player comes with the OS doing great and able to install and play with Kodi and Plex.

Installed 1 stick and it's playing nicely with my ASRock AB350 Pro4 motherboard. Since I'm using an AMD A89600 APU, the max supported RAM speed is 2133, so I didn't have any need for 'faster' RAM. If I were running a higher-end CPU in my build, I probably would have picked up faster RAM to go along with it, but for a basic home build where 4GB is an adequate amount of RAM, I see no reason to quibble about this RAM's performance. I can run 1080p video alongside iTunes, two web browser windows, and a few other things running as well on my Win10 build without going over 3GB of actual RAM used. For gaming or highly intensive (such as image editing) builds, 4GB wouldn't be adequate, but for basic home use, this is an excellent way to start an 'upgradable' build. Unfortunately with RAM, there isn't much to say about it unless I was overclocking with it or if it were faulty. But I have no intentions of trying to overclock with this RAM, and it's working flawlessly at the moment, so I'm completely satisfied.

Works as intended. Been using then in my PC for over a year now with no issues.

I never overclocked this memory. It served the purpose I bought them for.

Who needs their Ram to be flashy and look like you could throw it across the room into the eye of an assassin climbing through your window? Answer - You Don't! It sits upright on the motherboard and your only ever going to see the top of it 99.99% of the time anyway, unless your the type of person who actual takes their computer apart to show your friends each part individually. Since I am not that kind of person this Ram was perfect for me! It's the same great Ram that Crucial makes just missing the aerodynamic qualities of the plastic sheath that allows it be used as mentioned before, but even more important than that is that its cheaper! This kit comes with 4 total sticks, 2 separate boxes each containing a compatible pair of Ram. This means, and I'm sure your going to be putting these onto a motherboard that actually has a minimum of 4 ram slots, that you want to keep the sticks "together". So when I installed these onto my motherboard I opened one box, removed the two sticks and installed them into slots 1 and 2, because that's where the manual that came with my motherboard said to put them. Then I opened the second box and took the other two sticks of Ram and installed them into slots 3 and 4, again because that's what the manual said to do. It is very important to keep the two pairs of Ram "together" on the motherboard because they were tested to be as compatible with each other as possible, within specified parameters, so mixing them up isn't going to do you any favors once they're in the computer. You may have noticed that I kept putting quotations around the word "together" in this review, and that's because not every motherboard is built the same so you need to read the manual that came with it to determine how best to install 4 sticks of Ram on it so that way they stay paired.

Got this to add some RAM to a budget build and it was completely painless to install. Booted right up the first time with no issues at all, no need to mess with BIOS settings or anything like that. For a basic home PC or office machine this stick is totally reliable and reasonably priced, hard to ask for more.

Great price for the RAM chip, and installation is exactly as you'd expect. Make sure you remember to shut down the computer, unplug everything including the power, install the RAM , and then REMOVE THE BATTERY FROM THE MOTHERBOARD! I personally keep it out for 60 seconds, even though typically 5 seconds is enough time for the capacitors to fully discharge, because I know this made a difference sometimes back in the day. Anyhow, after 10-60 seconds go ahead and put the battery back in. This is important because that battery lets the motherboard remember all the machine addressing for the memory, the processor, the hard drives, etc... and if you don't clear it out it will often be a mixed jumble of addresses from the old configuration and the new. This will lock your computer, and you'll think you've ruined it even though all you have to do is remove the battery for a minute and then restart. Don't click on any restore options or ANYTHING if this happens to you... just shut down again, using the power button if you have to, and then go through the battery removal process I just listed. That will fix the problem pretty much every single time.

When my order for a 16 GB stick was delayed several weeks (before cancellation), I decided I was tired of waiting and picked up other memory. This was one of the two sticks. Running my rebuilt PC on just this one was smooth. There were no issues that I noted, and testing the PC showed cool running. When I added the other 8 GB, the performance when not multitasking stayed the same. In using a ramdrive, I am seeing excellent speeds. What can you really say about RAM? It works. It does exactly what I would hope it does. I now have enough memory to use my computer in largecache mode while running Visual Studio from a ramdisk. So far, the only issue has been with a disk drive, and not connected to the RAM.

Got at a good price and are working fine.

Good ram. Works as well as any other. No adjustment to settings required. You have to buy two sticks of same capacity and speed otherwise it won't work. It's a ddr 4 thing. Has to be installed in pairs. So you can't mix a 4gb stick with an 8gb sit. Has to be 2x4gb or 2x8gb or 2x16gb etc.

We are in an era (late 2017/early 2018) of unprecedented memory prices (well, unprecedented since the last spike in memory prices). So it's always going to be difficult to get value for money. This memory lacks the latest 'innovations' - like flashing rainbow lights and fancy do-nothing heatsinks. In fact, in a market saturated with 'bling' I found myself having to wade through a morass of terminology describing these extras, double-checking to see if a particular term was actually for a feature I needed, or whether it was just another piece of marketing describing a flashing on-board led. Don't get me wrong, I'm a modern man with a Windowed PC case and, as the flashing, gimmicky memory gets cheaper, I don't doubt I'll get a stick. But it isn't a necessity. What is important, however, is having enough memory of a high enough quality to run my new-build PC and tell everyone I know "It starts in under 8 seconds" with a smug look on my face. (It does start in under 8 seconds, by the way) In previous years I use to get very worked up about the technical specs of my memory - soul searching decisions to go with CL5 or CL7, or willing to pay through the nose for a bump in Mhz. For hours and days of research, the improvements were few and far between. From a real world perspective, this 8GB worked smoothly with Win10 by itself (and I've since upgraded to 16GB). Memory speed doesn't appear to be a bottleneck on my system (Ryzen 1700x processor), no random hangs or angry applications slowing my PC to a halt. No memory errors, no temperature problems.... basically no issues at all to report. This memory delivers good performance at a reasonable price. If image is everything for your build, get a single stick of this whiIe waiting for more expensive, flashier memory modules to come down in price. For my part, it performs so well I don't actually think I'll be ditching this stick of ram when other memory comes down in price. It's a highly recommended buy for any PC owner/builder in need of memory.

Worked as it should and at a great price, I now have 16gb and should be good for a couple of years. Easy plug and play!

A simple vista no se ven muy lujosas como unas HyperX de Kingston que vienen muy adornadas pero no dejes que eso te haga descartarlas. Es una excelente opción si buscas hacer un equipo gaming económico, te ofrecen 8 gigas de RAM lo cual es una cantitad muy recomendada hoy en día, al ser dos modulos puedes utilizarlas en dual channel lo cual es mas rápido que tener una sola memoria de 8. Lo recomiendo especialmente si utilizas una motherboard H110M ya que 2133MHz es la velocidad máxima soportada por esas tarjetas madre, tener RAM velóz te viene especialmente bien si jugegas mucho Overwatch ya que es un juego que se ve muy afectado por ello. Una vez que le pongas LEDs a tu gabinete (asumiendo que es uno con ventana) no se van a ver feas y si tienes lo demas en color verde combinarian bien. En el caso de que estes utilizando un gabinete sin ventana la estética de la RAM no deberia importarte. La mejor parte es su precio, yo las conseguí a $834 MXN a finales de 2016, en este momento la RAM está muy cara y esta es una opción muy buena si no quieres gastar pero no quieres tampoco tener un producto malo, Crucial además no es una marca patito en cuanto a la memoria como algunos de sus competidores.