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Aeneon Xtune DDR3-1333
"Today we are looking at the newest offering in DDR3 from the company AENEON. Now if you're like me, chances are you prefer to stick with a well established company that has a long history of quality and commitment to their customers. Well you're in luck because AENEON is just that company. Before you call the guys in white coats to come a drag me away to the padded room let me explain. AENEON is a new brand of memory being offered by Qimonda. You can find Qimonda memory chips just about everywhere, even in some of the hottest video cards like the 8800GT. Today we are going to look at their enthusiast line of memory kits dubbed 'Xtune'. Like it or not DDR3 is here to stay so you might as well find what kits excel and which ones crash and burn. With speeds guaranteed up to 1500 MHz at 1.5 volts and a warranty backed by Qimonda, this memory looks to establish itself as the RAM to beat. Let's cut to the chase and get down to the nitty gritty"

Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 2GB DDR3 Kit :: Introduction & Specification
"I have to say that I was pretty disappointed by the information available for these modules. It seems that Crucial's website has recently undergone a face-lift and some of the vital information such as warranty duration/terms have not been included. In addition, many other manufacturers also list the maximum voltage that can be used on their modules without risk of voiding the warranty. By omitting this information, Crucial could well be turning a way a large portion of the overclocking crowd."

Patriot Viper Fin DDR3 PC3 12800 2 x 1 GB Review
"Are you ready for Intel's next wave of processors and chipsets? If you don't have DDR3 memory, then you probably aren't. With the frontside bus speeds moving ever upwards, system memory is having to scale higher and higher to keep up. DDR3 memory has had the same growing pains that DDR2 had on the initial offerings; high latency, higher costs and lower performance than its predecessor in the currently usable range. DDR2 matured quickly with CAS latency dropping from 6 to 5 to 4 and finally some extremely high performance modules are able to run at CAS 3. DDR3 has begun that maturation process quickly as well. There are modules out that are capable of running at timings similar to DDR2 but at an exorbitant cost. DDR3 performance modules are being released with ever increasing speed capabilities to meet the demands of the enthusiast. These enthusiasts are no doubt running Intel processors as AMD is not looking to adopt the use of DDR3 until 2009 or beyond.

The Patriot Viper Fin PC3 12800 memory features low latencies of 7-7-7-18 at 1600MHz and 1.8 volts. While that is .3 volts above DDR3 spec, the modules carry a lifetime warranty from Patriot. The Viper Fin modules also carry a little something extra, an XMP profile on the SPD module. What is XMP, you ask? In a nutshell, it is Intel's answer to EPP memory programming for Nvidia chipset based systems. It is a preprogrammed SPD profile to allow the end user the ability to choose this profile for no fuss performance tuning of the system memory. So just how well does the Viper Fin PC3 12800 perform? Let's find out!"