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what is a good brand.i have seen mushkin,kingston,corsair,crucial.Which is the one you would recommend for a T60p 2623-ddu?Are they all the same?

I think all of them are good brands. It doesn´t really make a difference which one you will get. Also, no matter which one you will pick, there is always a chance that you get some faulty RAM modules, but that wouldn´t really mean that this particular brand is worse than the other. It happens to all of them (not so often though). Also, the memory for your T60p is so to say of a standard type and wide-spread (not something rare), nothing complicated, so you shouldn´t have any quality or performance problems with any of these brands.

Cheers,

Marin

I've had good luck with OCZ in multiple machines and can recommend them highly.

I recommend getting a 2 GB Crucial stick, model CT25664AC667 - see the outstanding user-feedback at Newegg's site --> here.

Note that your T60p won't need/use more than 3 GB in total (see the sticky T60/T61/p memory limitations -- the definitive answer [pics]), so if you already have a 1 GB module, get this 2 GB module.

Instructions about how to mount this RAM? Check Lenovo Service and Support Training - go to Notebooks --> ThinkPad --> T60/T60p and that's it!

Johan

hey thanks Johan & nameless.I was checking newegg.com & found Mushkin memory.Reading there web & they have matched memory for ibm series & the reviews is 100% on newwegg.com.So i am torn now between Mushkin,Corsair & crucial?Also i want dual so is 1x1GB stick vs 1x2gb,vs 2x2gb.this is frustrating.

SpanKyM3 wrote:Also i want dual so is 1x1GB stick vs 1x2gb,vs 2x2gb.this is frustrating.

Regarding the dual channel, I would suggest you reading T60 memory upgrade 2GB --> 3GB. (Even 1+2 GB will provide you a dual channel.)

Cheers,

Marin

newegg.com is the largest computer store on planet earth

and they sell most every brand of RAM that exists

the highest rated RAM sold by newegg (as rated by their customers) is the brand GSkill

For my T60p, price was no object, and after extensive research, I bought 4GB (2 x 2GB) matched pair of GSkill 4-4-4-12

4-4-4-12 is a lower latency RAM than your T60p came with, and it sure seems to have made mine speedy!

you can find cheaper RAM perhaps, but your T60p is the Ferrari of notebooks, so treat it like one!

here is the exact 4 GB set I bought last week for $49

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820231154

cheers! wild bill

Welcome to forum wild_bill!

Unfortunately, the only difference the 4-4-4-12 RAM makes compared to 5-5-5-15 RAM for laptops is to your pocket. The first one doesn´t perform even slightly better even in synthetic benchmarks (yes, I did some). I believe I´m not the only one here with the same experience -> Unsuccessfully going bananas with 800 CAS4 RAM on a 667 T61p. I think you rather benefit from the increased amount of memory (and maybe dual channel) than latencies.

Cheers,

Marin

Marin85 wrote:Unfortunately, the only difference the 4-4-4-12 RAM makes compared to 5-5-5-15 RAM for laptops is to your pocket.

Sounds like a business opportunity for Monster Cable branded RAM

I have it in my signature -> 4 GB Kongston HyperX (4-4-4-12) and I really don´t know why...

I've had good luck with both Crucial and Kingston and know Kingston is very accomodating on warranty questions or issues. I'd rather stick with a large prime manufacturer such as these, because a lifetime warranty still expires if a smaller company goes belly-up.

hellosailor wrote:lifetime warranty

OTOH even name brand RAM is so cheap these days -- the last 2GB of Crucial I bought was under $20 -- that once installed and tested on my system, warranty ceases to be an issue.

Pardon me for jumping the thread a bit...but the Crucial memory advisor software claims it scanned my T61P (2GB from Lenono) and that I have TWO EMPTY SLOTS AVAILABLE??

Do these machines really have 2GB on the motherboard and two empty slots?! Or is Crucial's software just plain nuts? (I know, there's just no screwdriver at hand right now, the TSA disarmed me.)

hellosailor wrote:Pardon me for jumping the thread a bit...but the Crucial memory advisor software claims it scanned my T61P (2GB from Lenono) and that I have TWO EMPTY SLOTS AVAILABLE??

Put simply, it´s "just plain nuts". It´s not the first time it reports nonsense... You can be pretty sure you have exactly two memory slots in your ThinkPad

Cheers,

Marin

hausman wrote:Sounds like a business opportunity for Monster Cable branded RAM

OUCH!!! . . . . . .

well for $4.50/stick more, the 4-4-4-12 is making me way more than $4.50 happier than cas 5 would have - LOL

and you folks that don't realize that GSkill has, over the last 4 or 5 years, become the best brand of RAM you can buy at any price, haven't been keeping up with newegg customer reviews, which is the largest database of user feedback we have in life!

and I can tell you from my own experience, that I had some Crucial Ballistix die on me, as well as some PQI, to name two.

Can you benchmark a gain? Or does the CAS4 just "feel" faster than a CAS5 to you?

I think latencies help most when overclocking.

With a T60 I would still get 2x 2GB sticks for dual channel purposes. It does not feel right running non paired ram, I'd only do that on a machine I dont care about at all.

Cunha wrote:I think latencies help most when overclocking.

Indeed!

Here is a memory bench using Passmark Performance Test x64 v6 on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate build 7000:


...and here using Everest Ultimate:


If anyone can compare and sees any difference to his CL5, please let us know

Marin

EDIT: Notice the difference in results between both utilities... funny thing...