TwinMOS Dual Channel PC3200
The ram ships in a hard plastic shell, which does a good enough job of protecting the ram during shipping. There are no instructions, but installing ram isn't all that complicated. Just make sure you plug them into the proper DIMM slots as per Dual Channel specifications.
Unlike some other manufacturers, TwinMOS has elected to not go with heatspreaders on their products. Although this takes away from the "gee whiz" factor, it should save a couple bucks on production, thus saving the end-user some money. Heatspreaders never really did much for cooling in out testing anyhow, so I wouldn't sweat over this too much.
The modules themselves are fairly standard. There's a nice reflective sticker with the company logo, as well as another sticker for indicating the ram type and speed, which is rated at CAS 2.5.
The ram chips themselves are TwinMOS branded, rated at 5ns. Previous modules were rated at 6ns, so it looks like TwinMOS is refining their manufacturing process. In order to maintain a clean signal, the memory is made with a 6 layer, rather than 4 layers. Little things are what matters, and TwinMOS did their homework here.
Their 256MB memory modules are single-sided, as opposed to being double-sided. What this should mean is less noise, and overclock a little better. From past experience, when I've worked with 256MB sticks (double-sided), it's always overclocked a little better than two double-sided 256MB sticks. Whether or not two single-sided sticks will OC better is something we'll try to look into when we get into the overclocking.
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TwinMOS Dual Channel PC3200: With dual channel setups being all the rage, we take a look at a dual channel solution from a highly regarded memory manufacturer, TwinMOS. Does it have what it takes to deserve a spot in your rig?
