So what’s crucial to you? Is it stability and support, or sheer speed and overclockability? This is something you must ask yourself before making your next ram purchase. The answer to this question will determine just where your time should be spent looking.

This review will focus on products offered by Crucial Technology who is well know for thier stable and reliable memory modules, not their overclocking potential. As the preferred memory manufacturer by companies such as Dell and Gateway for their mainstream PC’s; Crucial has shifted its attention away from overclocking and focused more toward quality and reliability.

Crucial is a division of Micron, a multi - billion-dollar company with 19,000 employees worldwide at facilities in Idaho, Texas, Italy, UK, Singapore, and Japan and which just happens to be the largest DRAM manufacturer in America and one of the top three in the world. It’s this relation that makes Crucial the only consumer memory upgrade supplier that is part of a major DRAM manufacturer.

Today we’re going to be taking a look at Crucial’s new offering of DDR ram. We’ve been given the chance to fiddle with two 256MB sticks of their new PC3200 DDR SDRAM. Seeing as we have two, this review will be based on their performance in a Dual Channel configuration. Let’s take a look at what we’ve got.