14 DAY TRIAL // Even though CeBIT is over and done with, there are still some products that make themselves noticed even now. While most of the spotlight, during the actual show, was grabbed by the AMD 8 Series chipset-based motherboards, the show was still packed with all sorts of other products. Among them were a number of rather promising DDR3 memory kits from Mushkin. Called Ridgeback, the memory kits are noticeable not only for their high memory capacities, but also for their imposing cooling solution.
During CeBIT, it was the folks over at Fudzilla that managed to get a close view of the memory models. While the line has four kits in total, two of them have a total capacity of 4GB (2x2GB) and operate on 1.65V and 2.1V, respectively.
The other two come with 6GB and both consume 1.65V. Fudzilla was able to see one of the kits working at 1600MHz. The modules that make up the four kits can come with the Ridgeback heatsinks, which Mushkin will include on two DDR3-1600 kits for the Intel LGA1156 and LGA1136 platforms. The same heatsink will also be used on a tight latency DDR2-1066 kit.
One might think that this performance is more than sufficient for most users, but Mushkin is well aware of the tendency that hard-core gamers and overlcokers have towards overexerting their memory modules. To make sure that such consumers can overclock the Ridgebacks more or less safely, the company is offering the option of using the Copperhead heatsink instead.
Not only that, but Mushkin has also shown the Copperhead waterblock. Essentially a “meaner” cooling candidate than the “big chink of copper” (Fudzilla's description of the Copperhead heatsink), this item should raise the frequency limit of the modules by quite a bit.
Unfortunately, there is no word on when and where the memory kits will first show up, nor is there any information on their prices.
