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now I haven't done gots to a whole lot of memory on my show in general and there is a reason for that so first of all actually I should start with my intro I'm going to be unboxing on muskan black line kit of memory today so this features their ascent heat spreaders and that is one of the key differentiating factors which leads me to why I don't really unbox the whole lot of memory there's not much to it you find a good refutable manufacturer that offers good support muskan in this case offers lifetime warranty on all other memory sticks then it comes down to a few key things you get the right kind of memory so if you have a ddr2 system you buy ddr2 ddr3 ddr3 and so on and so forth then you've got your capacity this is a two by two gig or four gig kit and so you can actually find that along with capacity one of the ways you increase capacity is to have more sticks so you might have a dual channel kit with two sticks so you might have a triple channel kit with three sticks depends what kind of a system you're running so memory comes down to voltage and speed that's pretty much it so a kit that runs at a reasonable voltage and runs at a good speed and that speed can be both in megahertz as well as in terms of timing one general rule that you can use when you're picking out a memory kit is that every speed bin increase in the frequency of the RAM so that means if you go from pc2 6400 up to pc2 8500 is worth the same as about across the board a1 reduction in the latency so a pc2 6400 c4 kit is about equivalent to a pc2 8500 c5 kit which is what we have here today wow that was a long intro I'm terribly sorry why don't we just have a closer look at these modules and then we will be on our way so first of all the back of the box has instructions on how to install muskan memory watch closely and then thumbs up win okay awesome so let's get the Box open okay and the first module I love their ascent heat spreaders I mean these things are actually like they're heavy they have some real weight to them even though they're made out of aluminum so you can look down the heat spreader so you can see that the fins actually go up quite high from the top of the module now these aren't like corsair dominator zin that there's actually another level of PCB that goes up higher than the module so they're not quite as high profile and they're going to have overall better compatibility with most motherboards and coolers as a result of that now why don't we turn it around to the side so you can see there's a nice brushed aluminum finish on the heat spreader itself you got a little sticker there telling you that your warranty is void if you remove it oh it doesn't even say that well you're going to warranty is void if you remove it it also tells you the speed that your module is running out as well as the latency so that means that if you ever get confused you can just check right on the side of your module and you can set the appropriate settings in the bios now if you actually look down into the I don't know if you can see that or not but if you look kind of into the module you can see that there's actually a um a copper layer under the aluminum so that's where you're going to get some of the cooling from this particular heat spreader i believe the ascents use like a vapor chamber design in order to get maximum cooling for the module so why don't I just grab the other one just for the sake of completeness and showing to you together and that pretty much concludes my unboxing of the musk in black line pc2 8500 for gig c5 REM kit now this is going to be kind of an overall unboxing of their ascent heat spreader so take it for what it is and these guys just get into everything look at this