IDF 2005: Enthusiast Memory Update

Last week LR got to stop by the booths of the two leading North American enthusiast companies and take a look at their product lines. They got to look at Kingston's engineering samples of DDR2 800MHz ValueRAM and take some Corsair XPERT modules out for a test drive.

On display in the Lubic Case was a pre-production sample of Kingston's HyperX DDR2 1000MHz memory. This memory is so new that it isn't yet on the Kingston site and this is the first time we have seen Kingston using it. The memory was clocked at 1GHz with 5-5-5 timings while the test systems Intel 840 processor was overclocked to ~4GHz with the aid of water cooling. Read on at Legit Reviews