Date: June 20th, 2004
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner, Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: Corsair
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PRODUCT COMPOSITION & WALKTHROUGH (cont'd)

What makes the heatspreader a little bigger is the incorporated activity LEDs that I mentioned earlier. Although they are a little hard to make out in this actual photo, you will see them in all their glory via a small movie clip I made.

(Click Image to see the small video clip)

Consider the activity LEDs as more of an aesthetic addition to a windowed case rather than a trouble shooting mechanism.

As an anti-counterfeit measure, Corsair labels each and everyone of its sticks of memory with a holographic sticker complete with the memory information.

Make sure you are getting true Corsair Memory by verifying this label.

MEMORY OVERCLOCKING

To test the memory's ability to overclock, I relaxed the timings to 3-8-4-4, locked the divider at the stock setting of 1:1, maxed the memory voltage at 2.8volts and bumped up front side bus until I was able to reach the maximum FSB which had no memory problems and could run all the benchmarking flawlessly with no problems.

Here are the results:

Stock: DDR400
Maximum Memory Overclock : DDR502!!!!!

As you can see, a 102Mhz increase in speed is an outstanding overclock and I can assure you, the performance difference was seen throughout the computer's benchmarking. To show you what difference I personally recorded, the results will be included in the benchmarking for your comparison.