Mushkin was
finally sold as they have been a subsidiary of an open market capitalist company since it's inception. thier parent company had to please thier share holders.
now that Mushkin's parent company has sold them, they are now a self owned company. the owners? yup, every single employee of Mushkin.
Just watch out in the upcoming year, Mushkin is going to come on hard trying to get back market share from OCZ and Corsair. their first new design? the new heatspreaders they have out now.
in a study done by an internal source of the Corsair company and published to the open market for thier competition to have access to also, they tested OCZ's new mesh heatspreaders, Corsairs own aluminum heat spreaders, and no heatspreaders at all.
heres the results:
254mhz mem bus for Corsairs extended brand heatspreaders
253 for the OCZ mesh heatspreaders
253 for Corsairs aluminum heatspreaders
250 for no heatspreaders
what Corsair has found, is that the most heat conduction isn't thru the top of the drams, it's through the PCB.
so what does Mushkin have to do with this? well thier new line of heatspreaders have the drams touching the heatspreaders, but inbetween the dram, they have wide open holes for air to go down and circulate thru, cooling off the pcb. this is just one such new innovation that mushkin has in the works.
it's all right here
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/299/1/
i wonder what taking off the heatspreaders, using some super glue in the corners and AS5 in the middle of dram heatsinks, like micro cool heatsinks, and blowing a low flow 25cfm 80mm fan on them would make the ram do?
TGM
