Test Rig & Specifications

The test system we are using was state of the art last year and while our system will not push this ram to its limits, the memory performs very well and will allow for some additional over clocking. We will most likely freshin this system up for future reviews.

Test System

MSI 875P Neo FIS2R r1.0 BIOS v2.1

Intel Pentium 4 2.8C (2.8GHz)

NVIDIA GeForce FX5900 Ultra (NV35) 256MB

1024MB Mushkin LII V2 Memory

2x 120GB Maxtor SATA ICH5R RAID

Antec 430watt True Power

CPU Core Voltage 2.80V

DDR Voltage 2.80V

Alphacool Cape Red CPU Water Cooling

We are going to start the test off with the system set to default, everything will be as if it was just installed and loaded with software as a family or personal computer would be loaded. This system has been our main test rig for over a year now and its still a relevent system and a good test bed.

These look really cool and would look even better in a rig thats using a black theme. On the performance side of things we expect these to fair rather well, as these are about the same configuration as the Corsair counterpart. This is a unbuffered memory rated at DDR400 or PC-3200.

This ram has a very tight timing and you will need a high performance dual channel 128-bit memory interface motherboard to utitilize its full potential. However you do not need a dual channel board to run the ram. Single channel motherboards do not have the two floating point independent 64-bit memory controllers, so performance will suffer in single channel mode.

This ram is manufactured on a 6-layer custom PCB which uses high quality components. Mushkin fine tunes the module and resistor circuitry to ensure your ram runs at its peak performance. The heat spreaders ship in a number of anodized colors to match anyones color scheme.