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Introduction:

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



“Founded in 1994, Mushkin is best known for producing “Enhanced” memory modules. Located at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado Mushkin provides performance enhanced computer products to users worldwide. Exceptional quality, enhanced performance and unparalleled customer support are what make Mushkin products the best in the industry. Mushkin products include an enhanced power supply line and a complete selection of memory upgrades for desktops, servers and notebooks – we offer something for everyone from business user to gamer. Our enhanced memory products are available in several performance categories from standard to extreme, with our REDLINE series in a class of its own. Our enhanced power supply line offers superb regulation and ripple characteristics, modularity and plenty of power to supply the most demanding systems. With customers including everyone from Apple Computer and NASA to gamers and web browsers, Mushkin knows what is important to customers - enhanced performance with uncompromised quality. With Mushkin you Get More.” ~ 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 memory these days are enormous. With image/video editing packages and games requiring more and more memory, 1GB of memory is hardly enough anymore. Games like Battlefield 2142, F.E.A.R., Splinter Cell Double Agent, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and many more require a minimum of 2GBs to play at high resolution. Upcoming games being released in 2007 will further benefit from having 2GB of memory installed. Additionally, Microsoft Windows Vista operating system requires more memory than XP. I would recommend nothing short of 2GB of memory if you are installing Vista. Also, most new memory has tight timing and can be pushed to very fast speeds. Let's see what this memory can do.