Ten years ago when Crucial was founded, the Pentium 200 debuted, 33.6 modems were high end and 32 MB of ram would set you back $320. Today we have roughly 20 times the processing power, 100 times the bandwidth and 64 times the memory. While many computer component manufacturers have come and gone in that time frame, Crucial has managed to stand the test of time and have decided to celebrate their milestone with what else...commemorative memory.

Continuing on from our Athlon 64 X2 4200+ and Sempron 3400+ Linux benchmarks, today we have looked at AMD's DDR2 performance with their Socket AM2. Using the system we used to deliver our initial AMD AM2 performance results, we have run a matched pair of Corsair XMS2-5400UL DDR2 through its paces at different frequencies. Used for the memory benchmarking under Linux was RAMspeed, which is an open-source cache and memory benchmark, and has been part of our Phoronix Linux benchmarking suite for some time now.