Nanya Elixir DDR3 1600

Introduction

With 1600 Mhz RAM quickly becomeing the new DDR2 800 Mhz, there are no excuses to not own a kit. Prices of triple channel kits of DDR3 1600 are now going under 100$, makeing it quite affordable compared to this time last year. Even after you get a 1600 Mhz kit, can you be sure that you bought the right kit? If your like me, you want to have the absolutly best overclock possible without blowing your stuff up. This means I am willing to pay a bit more for my RAM, if im guaranteed to be able to acheive higher clocks. Today we take a look at Nanya's attempt to deliver high overclocking DDR3 1600.

Elixir commonly refers to medicine, which I hopefully will not need when overclocking this RAM kit. I know the Mushkin I had would not get to 1802 stably on this board, but maybe Nanya has a trick up their sleeve which gave them just the edge they need to acheive this high RAM clock. At that speed memory bandwidth is extremely high, especaly with the RAM running in triple channel. Such high memory bandwidth will be a big help in server, and heavy encoding environments. These speed boosts will undoubtedly vastly increase production, but if your not into such professional tasks, then there are always games. Games take advantage of the added RAM in a system, but enough talk about the RAM, lets see what this RAM can do!