Now that we stuffed the ultra large capacity eXtreme Performance 2 GB XP4000 ram into our system, I snapped this shot showing the two modules in DIMM banks one & three, having plenty of room for another 2 gig of ram. Man would'nt that be sweet four gig! Anyway back to reality, lol, the eXtreme Performance 2GB XP4000 should run better than than four sticks of 512. Being that we can get a very stable 1T command rate timing under a dual channel kit as appose to having to use 4 sticks and having to run at 2T.

The eXtreme Performance 2GB XP4000 simply look wicked cool in our system and goes well with the black motherboard and UV colored slots and sockets. I fired up the system and without a hitch, the system recognized and configured the ram for optimum performance - first time go, thanks to the onboard programmble memory tables found in all mushkin products.

A close up of the eXtreme Performance 2GB XP4000 in our orange DFI DDR slots. Here we get an idea of what the new spreaders look like on this test bed. I think you will have to agree these might not be the best looking modules, but they sure do look sweet! I can't wait to test this with BattleField 2 as that game title is without a doubt one heck of a resource hog. The memory requirements are well above what is stated by the game title. Anyway let's move on.

Now that we gave you the visuals of the ram and the system we are using, let's get some technical feed back from programs like Everest, CPU-Z and RMMA. Let's also keep in mind that we at MVKTECH test all ram at 1:1, this is our base for comparisons and so everything we do with our specimens are 1:1 for best real world results.

Technical Feedback

First off we will start with CPU-Z v1.30 so you will know we are on the up and up and providing you a real world experience. We start with the CPU and on with the Mainboard, Memory and SPD for your viewinfo pleasure, lets take a look.

Firing up CPU-Z v1.30 brings us to the first initial screen which is covering all the details of the processor (CPU) that we are using on our testing system. Our central processing unit is a AMD Athlon64 3500+ Socket 939 which is running at 2.2GHz featuring 512KB cache.

The mainboard details you can get as well from CPU-Z. Our system is equipped with a DFI LANParty nF4 mainboard which is build around the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset and featuring a Phoenix BIOS chip.

The import information in the light of this review is however the memory information, and also on that CPU-Z provides us extra information. As reported we are using DDR Dual Channel memory at a total size of 2048MB or 2GB. The memory is running at 200MHz at a 1/1 ratio between the CPU Bus Speed and Memory Frequency. On top the different timings of the memory are provided.

The numbers we see above are from a otherwise totally stock system with the HTT set at 200MHz, using default settings globaly. No over clocking will be done with the next test we will do with RightMark Memory Analyzer. So let's go see what kind of defualt bandwidth we get using these modules on a strickly default system.