Optival RAM by Omni Technologies?

Hello,
I was considering adding 2gb of RAM to my Mac Pro and I found a good deal for some RAM called Optival by Omni Technologies. I never heard of this RAM but nothing looks wrong with it and its lesser than half the price of RAM for Mac Pros from Apple and Crucial.
Anyone know any bad things about this RAM? I found someone else asking about it on some forum and someone replied saying it works but isn't the highest quality of RAM. I don't know much about that except that RAM is RAM and if it works then it works heh.
Any insight if you have used or know anything about this particular brand of RAM is appreciated.
Thanks!

As you didn't provide a link, I Googled "Optival Omni Technologies" which yielded an eBay store. I looked at the 2GB ($389) module and would not buy from them. For one thing, no mention was made of the fact that the Mac Pro really needs to have RAM purchased and installed in matched pairs. Then the heat sinks are the flat heat sinks which are found on less expensive RAM. Such RAM is listed as having "Apple Specs" but without the extra large heat sinks it often overheats and causes ECC errors.
I'd suggest that if you want the least expensive Mac Pro RAM with a pretty good track record, you look at Max Upgrades...
http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_i d=157&CFID=4349480&CFTOKEN=58435512

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