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Geil Mushkin OCZ - PC3x00 AMD-Intel Performance

Memory by jmke @ 2004-04-08

The world has moved on, as they say. If you have an AMD or Intel setup and you want new low latency memory you have to start searching.. hard. The once widely available BH-5 which claimed the top spot in many overclockers? wish lists, is no more. In search for the next best thing we have here today a variety of memory modules which were send to us for review.

Mushkin Blue / TwinMOS / OCZ

Mushkin PC3200 Blue:

Mushkin's Blue line is designed for excellent stability and quality while maintaining an affordable price. The Mushkin Blue line uses a custom built 6-layer PCB with matched trace lengths, gold contacts and a fine tuned resistor network to insure the utmost in stability. Mushkin couples these with only major brand, tier one chips to insure superb performance. All Mushkin Blue memory comes with an installed heat spreader to eliminate localized hotspots, further enhancing the memory's performance

These are not the Black Hi Performance sticks which do CL2 2-2-5, these are a bit more moderate with their timings, clocking in at CL2.5 3-3-? @ 200Mhz using 2.5v. (for more info on why Mushkin doesn’t show the tRAS on their products pages go here)

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These weigh a lot less then those Platinum GeIL sticks, but the Golden Dragon are the light-weights in this round-up.

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Just how much enhanced we will soon find out.

TwinMOS M-Tec 50B

These sticks have a reputation of okay performance. At CL2.5 and SPD set to 3-3-8 they show average timings.

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OCZ EL PC3700 Rev 2

These sticks were previously reviewed on an Intel setup here. Let’s see how they fair in an AMD one.

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