Introduction:

Corsair once again pushes the envelope of DDR ram with their latest PC4400 rated memory sticks. This 1GB TWINX kit was tested to be stable at a speed of 275 MHz, a speed not easily obtained with the current crop of motherboards out there.

Corsair solely tests these sticks in pairs on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe rev 1.2; we are well aware that not everybody out there possesses the same motherboard, so we set out to find out which other boards climb up to the speeds supported by this Memory kit.



Technical Details:


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Testing:

We first started out testing this memory on an Asus P4C800 with latest BIOS revision and a P4 2.4 "C" capable of 290FSB on air cooling. Although we are able to boot into windows and run some benches, this speed proved unstable when trying *any* 3D game/benchmark. So out went the Asus and in the Abit IS7. This motherboard had problems even reaching 250 MHz in 1:1. Up next another Asus, the P4P800, again we fell short of 275 MHz and reached the limit of this motherboard (~255 MHz). Up next was a Canterwood from Chaintech at ~270 this motherboard threw in the towel. Chaintech's Springdale motherboard got up to ~255Mhz..

Max FSB reached with this memory running at CL3 4-4-8 in dual channel mode:

Asus P4C800: 270

Asus P4P800: 255

Chaintech 9CJS: 265

Chaintech 9PJL2: 252

Abit IS7: 245

This memory will surely help you find the limit of your motherboard's FSB, you can safely take the memory out of the equation when overclocking!

Liquid3D tested this memory on his "Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Rev. 1.0 02" and had some more luck reaching the rated speed of this memory, read on to find out his experiences with this memory ->