G.SKILL F2-6400CL4D
G.SKILL has been around since 1989 but only really came to the enthusiast's attention in the last couple of years, starting off with its DDR PC-4000 and PC-4400 memory kits.
Today's offering, however, is a PC2-6400 kit - or, if you prefer, DDR2-800.
On its packaging, G.SKILL boasts of "Great Skill in Memory World !!" in the finest Engrish tradition.
The modules are fairly ordinary-looking, with G.SKILL's standard silver-finished heatspreaders.
Timings are rated at 4-4-3-5 - fairly low especially
with regards to tRAS - while voltage is above JEDEC specification at
2.1V.
G.SKILL includes Extended Performance Profile
(EPP)
information. This works in conjunction with NVIDIA's nForce chipsets
to provide clock-speed and timing information beyond that of the
regular SPD (Serial Presence Detect) tables.
Finally, while most memory doesn't come with much of a bundle G.SKILL decided to buck this trend and has thrown in what everyone secretly needs...
...a glow in the dark sticker. Oh yeah!
Warranty
G.SKILL provides a 'lifetime' warranty and handles RMAs itself. But at the time of writing, full details of the RMA process were not available.
Summary
At £86 from Tekheads, the G.SKILL F2-6400CL4D is the cheapest memory kit being looked at today.
It pairs the tightest latencies with the lowest overall clock speed and that could lead to interesting benchmark results.
However, the maximum recommended voltage of 2.1V is likely to be a limiting factor in how hard it can be pushed in our overclocking tests.