It has been a year now since DDR2 launched and slowly but surely, DDR2 is gaining ground against DDR1. With Intel pushing hard for its Grantsdale and Alderwood chipset and new processors coming out of their fabs, you’ll find that DDR2 will become more and more in demand this year. DDR2 sporting faster frequencies and lower latencies will start coming out from known manufacturers everywhere.
Mushkin as an established and respected enthusiast memory supplier will of course have modules out and ready for such demand. Their initial DDR2 release was the PC2-4200 (533MHz) in both CL3 and CL4 types. At the time, it was sufficient for the current hardware most enthusiasts and overclockers were using but as time moves on, a need for a faster DDR2 with more headroom is what everyone was raving about.
So out comes Mushkin’s latest DDR2 offering, the PC2-5300. Rated at 667MHz, this definitely gives the user more headroom when it comes to pushing one’s system to the limits. Today we will take a close look at the 1Gb Dual Pack flavor of Mushkin’s PC2-5300 to find out what performance advantage it has over the old 533MHz DDR2 counterpart.
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