Mushkin 2GB XP2-5300 3-3-3 Memory Review

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:42 am

see now were talking 7k in sandra is where its at

jVIDIA · Post by **jVIDIA** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:21 pm

Apoptosis, what is the board that you tested ? P5WD2 Premium ?

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:20 pm

jVIDIA wrote:Apoptosis, what is the board that you tested ? P5WD2 Premium ?

Apoptosis wrote:With the rated 3-3-3-10 timings we were able to get up to 740MHz at the suggested 2.1Volts on the Intel 975X chipset. Since the Intel 975XBX motherboard only goes up to 2.2Volts we moved over to the trusty ASUS P5WD2 Premium. The ASUS P5WD2 features the Intel 955X chipset, which more people have and goes up to 2.3Volts. More voltage and a great board should lead to some interesting results!

jVIDIA · Post by **jVIDIA** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 1:30 pm

kenc51 wrote:
jVIDIA wrote:Apoptosis, what is the board that you tested ? P5WD2 Premium ?

Apoptosis wrote:With the rated 3-3-3-10 timings we were able to get up to 740MHz at the suggested 2.1Volts on the Intel 975X chipset. Since the Intel 975XBX motherboard only goes up to 2.2Volts we moved over to the trusty ASUS P5WD2 Premium. The ASUS P5WD2 features the Intel 955X chipset, which more people have and goes up to 2.3Volts. More voltage and a great board should lead to some interesting results!

And now I ask the crucial question .... are this mem's better then the 5400UL ones ? I've got my 5400UL ones stable @ 500MHz with CAS 5-3-3 !

Is it worthy to trade them for this Mushkins or it's better to wait for the Corsair response (like some DDR2 CAS 4 500MHz

) ?!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:46 pm

Corsair doesn't have a response ready for these modules yet as they can't find an IC that they like currently and I talked with them today on the phone so this is up to date info.

In terms of which modules are better post up your scores and give me something to beat and I'll try.

jVIDIA · Post by **jVIDIA** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:09 pm

Apoptosis, the 955 was at what speed ?

With my [email protected] (fsb 250) and the 5400UL @ 500Mhz (1:2) on a P5WD2 Premium I got this :

Is it good ?

5-Clicks · Post by **5-Clicks** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:51 pm

It'll be interesting to see what's in store for OCZ's response:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/m ... al_channel

Nice results so far, Apoptosis!

Trying to decide if these'll be better than my OCZ's I have right now which have Micron D9 fatties.

jVIDIA · Post by **jVIDIA** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:56 pm

The Corsair 5400UL are also Micron D9 fatties ?!

Those OCZ are new ones ? What IC they have ?

5-Clicks · Post by **5-Clicks** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:53 am

Don't know, they were just announced so they're not available yet. I don't know what ICs they use. I asked if I could those as a replacement for my OCZ's that were bad, but Jimmy Houn said that they were only announced and unavailable.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 9:16 am

jVIDIA wrote:The Corsair 5400UL are also Micron D9 fatties ?!

Yes, they run Micron D9 IC's on their 5400UL modules and the Corsair 5400UL were the tightest screen/bin that Corsair has ever done.

5-Clicks wrote:I don't know what ICs they use. I asked if I could those as a replacement for my OCZ's that were bad, but Jimmy Houn said that they were only announced and unavailable.

Sadly a number of companies send out PR's with no product ready or lined up. I've seen a memory company find out a part is coming out write a PR within minutes of finding out and sending it out when product has not been ordered yet. The memory industry can be a blood bath at times. The last I knew OCZ didn't have a solution that could run at these speeds and actually bought these modules from Mushkin to speed test them and see if they want to use them, but this is normal in the Industry as Corsair bought these modules too for internal testing. Gamers/Enthusiasts should be happy that these memory companies are testing each others parts and putting out what they think is best.