If you ask any PC enthusiast what type of memory they have in their PC the likely response would be Corsair or OCZ. Both manufacturers make great performance memory and have done for some time. Recently though more manufacturers are branching out into the performance segment and today we have modules from two of these manufacturers up for review. The first is Crucial who have been synonymous with quality, stable memory for years. The second is Ultra. We’ve looked at Ultra products before on Driverheaven and found them to be generally excellent.

Ultra PC3200 XL

The Ultra DDR comes packaged in the now standard plastic container. If you’ve bought memory in the past couple of years chances are it was packaged the same way.

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On the reverse side of the package you can see the details of the Lifetime Warranty that Ultra offer which is an excellent selling point.

The sticks themselves are surrounded by a metal heat spreader which covers all of the memory chips. One side of the sticks are emblazoned with the Ultra logo…

…the other with an sticker showing some of the information on the product…

What none of the packaging or stickers tell you is the memory timings, in the case of the ultra the timings are 2-2-2-5 which puts it right up against the performance memory from OCZ and Corsair supplied with the same timings.

 

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