While I was not able to obtain a venerable Mushkin LVLII Black module, I did get the chance to test this Special series from Mushkin which features Winbond BH-6 chips and offers similar performance when compared to its big brother.

Sleek black heat spreaders and PCB:


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Overclocking Experience

In order to test this stick to the maximum I ordered an OCZ DDR Booster from Bytes@Work. A complete review of this nifty device can be found here.

This device plugs in a free DDR slot and takes power directly from your PSU’s ATX motherboard connector; using a small rheobus on the unit you can adjust voltage up to insane values. Winbond rated its chips up to 3.6V. After a bit of testing I found the sweet spot of this stick to be:



I did not bother with relaxed timings, you don’t push 3.5v through some Winbond memory for that. At CL2 2-2-10 this module reached stability at an impressive 265Mhz!

1 * Mushkin PC3200 Special (BH-6)
Timings	FSB/CPU	Q3A	3DMark2001SE
CL2 2-2-10	265Mhz / 2252Mhz	396.2	14588
CL2.5 3-3-10	n/a	n/a	n/a
CL3 4-4-10	n/a	n/a	n/a

A year ago this performance would have been unrivalled, yet with the introduction of these TCCD memory modules, Winbond fanatics have some serious competition!