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Mushkin Enhanced Redline Ridgeback 2133mhz 16GB Review (Quad)

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girl’s) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

  • Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
  • Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
  • Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
  • Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
  • Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

  • SMP – Multi-Processor
  • MC – Multi-Core
  • SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
  • MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
  • GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
  • NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
  • AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
  • IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

The Mushkin Redline at 2,133mhz is closely matched to the 16GB G.Skill ARES memory which we reviewed in March this year. When overclocked to 2,400mhz it performs again on the similar level to the G.Skill ARES at the same speeds.

The Mushkin Redline can be pushed slightly higher however, to 2,544mhz and this translates into our highest score yet of almost 53 GB/s of memory bandwidth. Incredible results.

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6 comments

  1. very very nice. I remember when they were big news in the overclocking arena.

    Hynix memory however is widely available with other companies though isn’t it ?

  2. Awesome looking memory, great results too. I need to upgrade and soon, my system feels positively ancient.

  3. Its good memory, I hope they do well in the UK, my friend bought the cheaper black range of memory and its performed well for him so far.