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[Review] Crucial Ballistix (2×2GB) DDR3 1600MHz w/ Thermal Sensor 2 Comments By Chew on September 1, 2010 Recently we received a new memory kit from Crucial that is part of their Ballistix line. We decided to test this kit on the AMD platform to see how they would fare. Considering that AMD can be picky with certain modules, we found this particular set quite interesting. Let’s take a closer look shall we? Based on the target consumer and price range of these modules, we decided against testing with SuperPi 32m and instead opted to test ultimate stability using Prime 95 (Blend) for a minimu...
[Review] OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 Platinum Low Voltage Memory Kit 2 Comments By Chew on May 23, 2010 Introduction Recently the good folks at OCZ sent us a set of budget ram to review. Now I know most of you hardcore overclocker’s are saying “pfft…” however, with budget RAM sometimes and often many times there can be found diamond’s in the rough. With that said, let’s see what you get. As we can see, the packaging is simple as to be expected with a budget set of memory. The platform we chose to test these sticks today consists of the following. Test Setup GI...
Opportunity of a lifetime… 6 Comments By Chew on May 30, 2009 I was recently offered a choice by a certain individual…… You take the blue pill and it’s over, you wake up tomorrow and continue life as you know it and you believe what you want to believe. You take the Green pill and I show you a world you never could have imagined in your wildest dreams where limits and boundaries are meant to be broken. I obviously chose the Green pill I will save the long drawn out speech for after the results…..So lets get right to the results...
OCZ PC3-12800 1600LVAM4GK AMD Optimized Kit Reviewed! 11 Comments By Chew on May 19, 2009 I recently received a specially tuned set of ram for the AM3 platform from OCZ Technology. What this means is they are guaranteed to work on your AM3 platform and users do not have to buy an extra stick of ram in a 3×2g kit that may or may not work well at rated speeds and or timings. Essentially, OCZ was nice enough to cater to the AMD crowd and take the guess work out of the equation for AMD users. The stars of the review. Test setup MSI 790FX-GD70 and Gigabyte 790FXT-UD5P OCZ PC3 12...
G.SKILL F2-9600CL5D-4GBPI DDR II Reviewed on AM2+ 1 Comment By Chew on May 18, 2009 I recently received a set of G.Skill F2-9600CL5D-4GBPI DDR2 to test out on AMD’s AM2+ platform. According to G.Skill, each kit is hand selected from the batch and represent G.Skill’s highest bin Powerchip IC. Exciting… =) I’m not very big on chit chat so lets get right to the testing after seeing a shot of the ram. System Specs: AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE Asus M4A79 Deluxe G.Skill F2-9600CL5D-4GPI (1200 5-5-5-15 2.1v) PC P&C 1200w Turbocool Thermalright Ultra-eXtre...
Gigabyte’s MA790FX-UD5P DDR II board reviewed chew* style 9 Comments By Chew on April 7, 2009 The way you will see me do reviews here will differ from the norm. You will never see me do a review at stock speeds…..There are plenty of review sites that already do that……What I do is start where they leave off, the overclocked and extreme overclocked results……Reviews for Overclockers by Overclockers. If a product line has a prior known weakness I will exploit it, in this case Gigabyte’s AMD boards have not been to ram clocking friendly so I decided to put...

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