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Muskin High Performance PC 133 Rev. 2

Company Website: http://www.mushkin.com

Unlike the case with the Corsair and EMS HSDRAM DIMMs, we didn't have a predecessor of the current Muskin PC133 Rev. 2 (CL-2) DIMMs. These DIMMs have regularly achieved the top ratings in all reviews posted on-line and we were curious how they would hold up in our hands.

Mushkin are using MoselVitelic chips (V54C365804VCT7) for their PC133 CL-2 DIMMs which are amongst the best performing chips currently on the market (again, this depends on the quality grade).

Mushkin PC133 High Performance Rev. 2 DIMM and close-up of the chips showing the typical MoselVitelic logo

3:3:3

Once again, no big surprise, though, after our experience with the other candidates. The Muskin Rev 2 DIMMs ran all benchmarks flawlessly at 166 MHz. (Solano)

2:2:2

At 2:2:2 timing setting, the Mushkin Rev 2 were running stable up to 154 MHz in the ASUS CUSL2 (Solano) and 153 MHz in the VIA KT-133 chipset. In both boards the DIMM was operational up to 157 MHz as far as completing a full boot into Windows98 goes but without enough stability to run extensive stress tests.

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