These times are good times, at least for those in the market for some new memory sticks. When Winbond stopped the production of their BH-5/6 series we saw manufactures change to memory chips which featured more relaxed timings. Where Winbond could keep tightest timings at CL2 2-2-5 the next generation had to make do with CL2 2-3-6.

The performance difference between CL2 2-2-5 and CL2 2-3-6 is far from shocking, but hardware enthusiast tend to want to best what’s out there.

Lucky for us where Winbond dropped the ball, Samsung picked it up and recently introduced a new batch of memchips capable of those tight timings. Today we have a collection of 1Gb PC3200 kits from different brands which all use those shiny new Samsung chips.



PC-Memory-Upgrade.co.uk, Mushkin and GSkill provided us the following:

G.Skill GSKILL F1-3200DSU2-1GBLE	Mushkin PC3200 LVLII V2	PDP PC3200 Patriot Xtreme
OCZ EL PC3200 Platinum Revision 2	A-DATA PC4800	OCZ's EL PC4400 Gold

The only memory stick included in this roundup not sporting Samsung’s latest is OCZ’s EL PC4400 Gold which features Hynix BTD5, rated at 275Mhz CL2.5 4-4-8.

Let’s start up our Intel test rig ->