Targetting the gaming enthusiasts who cannot afford to shell out the big greens for top of the line stuff, but still want to run high end parts in their gaming system, this Corsair RAM provides balance between performance and cost.
We all know that the transition to 2GB imminent. It is just a matter of time when people decide to hop over the border. 2GB DDR kits are not hard to find. The hard part is finding a kit that allows good overclocking headroom.
Who remembers when all we needed was 256MB of system memory to play our favorite games? I certainly do. In fact, I can remember when 256MB was more than what we needed.
The pioneer to DDR2 was hard and continues to be hard. Perhaps the major reason behind that is because of the lacking performance on Intel's chipsets. DDR2 is far from lacking in performance.
Before the wide spread use of heatpipes in heatsinks this past year, it seemed as if watercooling was going to be the only alternative for keeping temperatures down.
While the latest and greatest from Corsair has been the Xpert DDR and high speed DDR2, a few enthusiasts have reported an interesting find with their regular DDR PC3200XL line of memory.
Corsair's reputation grew rapidly when they started their XMS line of memory. At that time, the inclusion of memory heatspreaders was a great addition to not only looks, but as a sign of high performance memory.
Who was the first to make low latency memory? Corsair. Who was the first to use heatspreaders for memory? Corsair. Who was the first to have pretty LED's for memory? Corsair.
We have already reviewed memory modules from OCZ and Kingston, but today we have the privilege of reviewing modules from a company that single-handedly took the enthusiast memory market by storm.
