Mushkin 1GB PC2-5300 (667) DDR2 Dual Pack

By Ramil Tranquilino

January 8, 2005

 

 

Manufactured by Mushkin EMS

 

Introduction

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.

 

 

The Mushkin 1GB PC2-5300 (667) DDR2 Dual Pack

The PC2-5300 (667) picks up where PC2-4200 (533) left off with bandwidth of up to 5400 Mb/s. This dual pack consist of 2 x 512mb PC2-5300 modules and is rated at CL 4-4-4-11. According to CPUZ’s SPD utlity, these modules uses A-Data chips.

 

Mushkin's PC2-5300 memory is designed for use in the latest generation motherboards where you can asynchronously run your memory faster than the processor bus speed. Note that this type of memory is also backward compatible to DDR2 systems using 533MHz but with a rated speed of 667MHz, overclockers and enthusiasts will have more room to work with.

 

 

Specs

  • Rated timings: CL 4-4-4-11 @ DDR2 667MHz

  • 1.8v -2.0v

  • Aluminum Heatspreader

  • 5.4Gb/s Memory Bandwidth

  • Double Bank

  • 64Mx64 Module

  • 32Mx8 chip density

  • 240 Pins

  • Unbufferred Non-ECC

  • Lifetime Warranty

 

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