Overclockers New Zealand has updated their DDR Ram Guide.

Corsair XMS range has always been praised as the HIGHEST quality ram available on the market, same goes to price. The improvements over V1.0 are the addition of heat spreader and utilisation of higher density chips. The heat spreader is more of a cosmetic addition rather than a function one, unless you are driving this stick with 3V+ voltage. Corsair used some sort of thermal glue/conductive tape to attach the spreader. I could not get it off the ram with a reasonable amount of force thus there is no picture of the ram chip. The ram chip has a density of 256Mbit therefore only 8 chips is need for 256MByte capacity. This is great news for I845D users, who are short on memory banks, as it is classified as single bank ram instead of dual banks, unlike most 256MByte module.

Note: Corsair guarantees that this module can run at 166 MHz with 2-2-2 setting and 185 MHz with 2.5-3-3 setting.

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