For many years now, performance memory, made and bred for enthusiasts has been the focus of many companies. Asking these die hard overclockers which the market looks after, you'd get a thousand different allegiances from person to person. Maybe one of the more common names that would come up though, would be Mushkin. With such recent successes like their Redline lineup, Mushkin's kept themselves well on the charts over the years, being the provider of many-a-man's smoking hot machine. Perhaps just shy of a year ago, Mushkin bought into a trend quite a few manufacturers had already seen the light of - customizing the heat spreader to make their modules stand out. Starting with the red hot (no, really, they can did get there) Redline modules, Mushkin introduced a taller heat spreader with an open circular top, which was intended to help dissipate heat with the aid of air flowing down from above. It's around this bit of unique Mushkin technology that today's modules are based. Featuring hot new Elpidata ICs, Mushkin's modules promise performance and overclocks similar to what could have been done with Micron's Fatbody D9 chips a few moons ago. With nice, low latencies (3-3-3-10) at decent frequencies, could we be in for a showdown with the old champ? Let's find out.
