Conclusion
Testing:
Intel P4 2,8 Ghz
Gigabyte 915P Duo Pro
Mushkin Redline XP2-8000
Palit X300
Zalman 500W PSU
Maxtor 80GB IDE HDD
Software used for this test was Pcmark2005, Sisoft Sandra 2006, Everest Home Edition and SuperPi. We decided to run with our 2.8 Ghz CPU due to its ability to overclock to see how this ram can perform. Overclocking testing was also done on a 3.8Ghz processor.
SuperPi:
SuperPi is the most used program among overclockers, this really pushes the computer to the limit and you can always see if you have a stable overclock by running some overclock loops with SuperPi. We did a 8M test and the lower time the better. It’s time to take a look at the overclocking results and I think that you might get positivly suprised.
Overclocking:
We have a very good processor for overclocking in this test, our 2.8Ghz P4. The ram is suppose to be able to run at 1000 mhz frequency. We started “slowly” booting the computer up with 250 FSB which is 1000 freq right away, I mean why wait 
No problems at all, the computer started up and ran very smooth without any voltage raises. SuperPi times dropped down to 7 min from 8.48 min so it’s a 1 min 48 second drop which is not bad.
I did not feel satisfied yet so we did some more tweaks in bios and gave it a shot at 260 FSB with some voltage tweaks. ~1030 freq and 3570 mhz from original 2800 mhz on the processor. No major problems, had to fine tune some voltage settings to get a stable SuperPi run. Then I saw another review of this item and they got it up to 270FSB with their kit so I had to give it a shot also.
I got the computer to boot at 270FSB but we were unable to get a stable computer that could run SuperPi runs, we got into windows and could start software etc but not SuperPi. 260FSB dropped us about another 30 seconds in a SuperPi run so I’m quite satisfied. At 270FSB the memory ran at 1070 according to CPU-Z.
Latencys:
4-5-4-11(CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS) is the stock latency on this kit and we had to try how far down we could push these. We started with giving 4-4-4-9 a shot and it worked on stock speeds, overclocking wise we were unable to lower the latency on these sticks. We had the ram running as low as 4-4-4-8 without any problems.
Conclusion:
I will try to update this review as soon as our AM2 test system arrives, we are still waiting to get this system due to some delays. You can see how these perform with a normal P4 system though, we had some nice overclocking results, you can really see the difference when you get over 1000 mhz freq, we ran the processor at 2800@3500 whichi is not a bad overclock at all, the ram is specified to take this and as we said we could go a bit further from that also. The ram is very stable I have to admit and I never had to add a fan to cool them down under overclocking as I have done with previous kits I have used, the new heatsink really makes a great job. I have seen this kit go for around 400$ USD which is quite a bit of money for the normal user but if you want a fast 2Gb kit of DDR2 this might be something to consider.
Pros:
+ Fast
+ Can go lower on the latency
+ 1000 mhz freq specced
+ Heatsink stays extremly cool
+ No extra voltage needed to raise FSB in the beginning
Cons:
- Price
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