Crucial 512MB PC3200 DDR400 Memory

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Brian Kristensen
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Apr. 9, 2004

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Introduction

Micron is a multi-billion-dollar company with facilities in Idaho, Texas, Minnesota, California, Italy, England, Norway, Japan and China. Micron is currently the only DRAM manufacturer in America and one of the top three in the world. They are also one of the top suppliers of OEM memory to manufacturers such as Compaq, Gateway, HP and IBM. In 1996, Micron launched Crucial Technology to supply end users with high quality memory direct from the manufacturer.

Today, we have a single 512 MB stick of Crucial's PC3200 memory. Crucial's PC3200 memory modules have a clock speed of 200 MHz (DDR400) and use rather relaxed timings compared to modules produced by Corsair and other high performance memory manufacturers. Will this memory be able to hold its' own during our overclocking and performance testing even though it is marketed towards the mainstream user? There's only one way to find out...

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6 User Comments

1 - Posted by A Person on April 10, 2004 - 1:50 am

I usually think of Crucial as the memory that you buy for your average PC. I was surprised to see it perform that well, even with reduced timings.

So does crucial have different quality memory? All I could determine from their website is that they make different speeds of "memory upgrades" :D from EDO and PC100 up to DDR2-533. I guess what I'm asking is, Corsair has the "Value Select" series and the XMS series. Does crucial have anything like that?

2 - Posted by Brian on April 10, 2004 - 11:21 am

All of Crucial's memory is pretty much the same. As far as I can tell, they don't have a higher/lower quality or speed lines of modules.

They have some information on their website which might be of interest to you. This is page four of their "Quality Counts" section:

http://www.crucial.com/library/quality_page4.asp

3 - Posted by Guest on April 10, 2004 - 12:19 pm

good review, but you didn't bench any games. will timings affect games more than synthetic benchmarks?

4 - Posted by Tulatin on April 10, 2004 - 6:58 pm

It also performs about the same as the ECC models.

5 - Posted by A Person on April 11, 2004 - 5:53 pm

wow, i never knew what "generic memory" actually meant. i guess i will never buy any of that stuff.

6 - Posted by OldCoot on May 9, 2004 - 1:29 am

I have an Asus P4P800, Intel 2.4C with a stick of the same 512 Mb Crucial PC 3200 memory.
The motherboard set to 'auto' detects the memory timing as 2.5-4-4-8.
Which timing is theoretically faster: the reviewed 3-3-3-8 or my detected 2.5-4-4-8?
I know that CAS 2.5 is faster than 3, but I don't know what effect the other numbers have on it.

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