Thread: Mushkin High End DDR2 RAM

Three parts, our DDR2 RAM Review series is now already behind. Part 1 ( DDR2 1000 Roundup ), Part 2 ( Kingston HyperX DDR1000-1200 ) and Part 3 ( DDR2 800 Roundup ) have with various high-end modules in 1 or 2 GB kit deals and over clocking and performance review ed. It was not long ago to DDR1 times, there were high-end 2x1 GB memory in the computer be the dream of all over lockers, but the problem was that these modules were not over clock nearly as well as 2x512 MB. With 1GB DDR2 modules were virtually the standard and their performance is high. But now are 2x1 GB not really have much, just a lot of Windows Vista users will want more. We are moving towards 2x2 GB and thanks to the current very low RAM prices, this could quickly become a standard.

Now the ambitious over cocker is, of course inevitably the question whether history is repeating itself. The 2x2 GB kits are good at all for over clocking. Can it ever reach even the high clock rates. Now we have started looking to check just that. What can you get out of DDR2 modules in the configuration of 2x2 GB. The new XP2-8500 4GB Kit Mushkin has a really hot and also to one-iron in the fire. So far, we still know no other provider that has ventured into these regions with DDR2 memory. Mushkin must therefore decorate currently classified 4 GB (2x2 Kit) high-end storage with the crown and name a lonely pioneer. Viewing times once on over clocking and other gadgets, the Mushkin XP2-8500 4GB of DDR2 memory currently far review with 2x2 GB.

It is interesting that the modules not only meet their specifications for DDR2-1066, but also can still overclock. So it's not as if you went to the limit here and the modules full. We actually had not expected that the modules would be 575 MHz and thus reach DDR2-1150 in overclocking. After all, we have review ed even 1 GB PC8500 modules that have not even done. Mushkin has met our expectations, not only so, but exceeded. The Mushkin XP2-8500 2GB modules must therefore deal as the current best of the best call of DDR2 memory. The performance of the modules is very high and they are the colleagues 1GB or 2GB kits are in absolutely nothing after, sometimes even better. And this both in terms of clock speeds, as well as the performance itself, because the modules reached in each read and write review absolute peak values, some of them were even despite lower clock speeds faster than the 1GB models. They also offer just 2GB memory on a module and thus could equip most new motherboards even with rich 8GB memory.