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The world of RAM is an interesting one. A world that seems to recreate itself over and over again with each new version. Companies fight and struggle to keep the performance edge. Who has the best speed? Who has the flashiest heat spreaders? Who can take more voltage? But you know, in the end the [...]

I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Crucial memory, so when the opportunity came to test out the latest addition to their Ballistix line, I jumped [...]

As one of the largest memory manufacturers around, Kingston is usually one of the first companies to produce products based on the latest technologies and with the arrival of the P35 chipset based motherboards bringing DDR3 support, it wasn’t long before Kingston announced both ValueRAM and premium HyperX parts running at 1066MHz and [...]

Straight off the press of our last Crucial memory review, we’ve got another one. Today we’re looking at Crucial’s top of the line performance memory, the DDR2 PC2-8500, rated at a massive 1067MHz.

This is uber fast memory designed for the most heavily over-clocked systems. We put it through it’s paces to see how it performs.  [...]

How much memory does a modern day computer system need?
Microsoft would lead you to believe that
Vista runs
happily one 1GB of memory, but anyone that’s actually used it will tell you
that you need double that.

What about a power user though? After you’ve loaded in the
OS, Firewall, Anti-virus, email, IM, and the rest [...]

Product: Crucial 10th Anniversary PC5300
Author: Paul Mercer
Category: Enthusiast/Overclocker
Date: October 2006
Product cost: MSRP US $339.99 / ?204.44 / ?304.31
Manufacturer: Crucial
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Introduction:

Crucial are a large company known mainly for their excellent memory products, they?ve been in the business for quite a while now… 10 years to be exact.
To commemorate the occasion they have [...]

Product:
Kingston HyperX PC8500
Author: Paul Mercer
Category:
Enthusiast/Overclocker
Date: September 2006
Product cost: MSRP $284
($248.50 at allstarshop.com)
Manufacturer: Kingston
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Jason Hambly
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Introduction:

It?s been a while since we have had a memory review at PlanetX64;
this time round we have a kit [...]

Product: XMS2 Twin2X1024-8500 1GB Dual Channel Memory Kit
Author: Sean Kalinich
Category: Enthusiast/Overclocker
Reviewed on: 23 April 2006
Product cost: $229.99
Manufacturer: Corsair
Spelling and Grammatical editor:
Paul Mercer 

Introduction:
You know sometimes it seems that memory speeds change faster than CPU
and GPU speeds. It was not enough to have DDR400, we had to have
DDR600, same [...]