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Introduction:

First a little about the company, Mushkin, Inc. This next blurb is from their website:

"A privately owned company founded in 1994, Mushkin provides specialized memory modules and technology from their headquarters in Denver, CO. Mushkin is famous for awesome quality, superb service and high performance products that offer the best cost-performance profiles in the industry. The Mushkin product line includes a complete selection of memory upgrades for all your desktop, server and notebooks. Mushkin delivers memory module solutions to large enterprises, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), government organizations, universities, creative professionals, computer system OEMs, distributors and resellers. Some high-profile clients include: American Superconductor Corp, Apple, Atlantic Semiconductor Corp., Ball Aerospace, Critical Path, DRS Rugged Systems, Inc., DT Magnetics, DV Line, Hewlett-Packard, Level 3 Communications, Lori-Unitron, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NASA (Langley Research, Johnson Space Center), SGI and Stellar Semi-conductor. Join the ranks of our satisfied customers all over the planet! While largely known as the supplier of the fastest and most reliable DDR and DDR2 modules, Mushkin also provides low-cost DRAM modules for both desktop and notebook computers." ~ more info

Being around for over a decade gives Mushkin great experience in the memory industry. Other memory companies founded include Corsair in 1994, Crucial in 1996, and OCZ in 2000. It's incredible to think how much computer technology has progressed within this time frame! I've reviewed many products from Mushkin in the past and they have all been excellent. Many may know them for their Redline series of memory which has extreme performance and falls into the hardcore memory category.

The demands that are put on current memory are great. With image/video editing packages and games requiring more and more memory, 1GB of memory is hardly enough anymore. Games like F.E.A.R. and Battlefield 2 require a minimum of 2GBs to play at high resolution. Upcoming games being released in 2006 will further benefit from having 2GB of memory installed. Also, most new memory has tight timing and can be pushed to very fast speeds. Let's see what this memory can do!