Corsair 675MHz DDR2 (Twin2X1024-5400C4PRO)

Surely, by now you've all heard that DDR2 currently doesn't offer any compelling performance gain worthy of a serious upgrade involving a new DDR2 motherboard and PCI-Express video card. I emphasize "currently" because it probably won't be long before DDR2 really starts to show off its true muscle as newer, lower-latency, and faster modules are developed.

Today, I'm going to take a quick look at some DDR2 from Corsair in the form of the TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO 1GB kit. You might be thinking to yourself, "5400!?!" Oh yeah...this RAM is designed to run at 675MHz. The fastest DDR I reviewed was 550MHz, so I was definitely excited to check out this DDR2 kit from the top performance memory company on the planet.

I'm going to see just how much performance I can squeeze out of this kit with the ABIT AA8 DuraMAX motherboard I recently reviewed. This motherboard features the Intel 925X chipset and is very tweaker-friendly. Corsair XMS RAM is consistently good for overclocking so I'm hoping for the same from the XMS2 line.