Mushkin PC16000 Radioactive 6GB Review

Mushkin PC16000 Radioactive 6GB Review

Test Setup

Gigabyte X58A-UD7
Intel i7 950 @ Stock and 4GHz
6GB Mushkin Radioactive RAM
ATI HD5870
Corsair AX1200 PSU
Noctua NH-D14
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Overclocking

Out of the box the XMP gives a slight overclock to the BCLK, up from 133MHz to 143MHz for a 3.15GHz CPU speed.

Mushkin PC16000 Radioactive 6GB Review 

Of course as good as that is, systems are always happier with the golden 200MHz BCLK. Firstly though we had to see how far the Radioactive would go and managed to get a minor speed increase up to 2072.4MHz effective.

Leaving the BCLK at 200MHz and tightening the timings we got the Radioactive from 8-10-8-27 down to 8-9-8-24. With the processor at 4GHz this will be our overclock settings.

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