Mushkin Redline DDR3-1600 6GB Memory Kit

Test Bench & Overclocking

First and foremost, when purchasing a kit of RAM (or any component, for that matter) overclocking results are never guaranteed. Many factors can influence what a kit is capable of, including complimentary components (motherboard, processor, power supply), user experience, and simple luck of the draw. Two identical systems will not necessarily yield identical results, and anything over the rated specification should be treated as a bonus, not an expectation. HardwareLogic has some of the most stringent memory testing on the web. When it comes to stability, we require a kit pass five cycles with the Ultra-X R.S.T PRO3 Memory Tester (The same testing hardware used by Corsair Memory and several other memory manufacturers to validate kits, however even most memory companies only require a kit to pass three cycles). We then require the test kit pass our entire benchmarking suite without error. If a memory kit can pass this torture test.....we consider it 100% stable.

We compared the Redline kit to another 1600MHz kit from Corsair sporting looser timings of 8-8-8-24. As expected, the tighter timings found on Muskin's product provided higher scores and performance in every test we ran. In addition, we were able to overclock the Redlines to 2012 MHz at 9-9-9-24 1T using stock voltage. That's very impressive for a 1600 MHz kit and indicative of the overclocking headroom found on this memory.