Corsair is a well trusted name in the enthusiast community. Corsair's products are almost always one step ahead of its competitors. From the enthusiast tested memory to technical support, Corsair almost always leads the way. A recent discovery of Samsung's low latency chips has caused excitement in the PC3200 memory arena. The PC3200 market was once thought to be dull when considering the same latencies and speeds that were being achieved by enthusiast rated memory modules.

Corsair was the first one to introduce their PC3200XL line of memory modules in the market. From what we know, Corsair will gradually stop the production of its current PC3200 memory and replace it with PC3200XL memory with the new Samsung chips. The company do not know whether it will release other versions of the "XL" line such as PC3500, PC3700, PC4000 etc., however, there is internal discussion going on about the decision.

The PC3200XL comes in two variants - PC3200XL Pro and PC3200XL Non-Pro. As many of you know, the only difference that sets the Pro from the Non-Pro series are the 18 activity LED lights. The LEDs light up according to the memory activity; if you are playing games or using an application that is fully utilizing the memory modules, the LEDs will go all the way up to red. They will, however, remain green if the system is in idle mode. The PC3200XL revives the DDR400 memory module market and Corsair isn't the only one taking part in this evolution. Mushkin released their "Special Edition" 2-2-2 memory modules and now OCZ let's us know that their 2-2-2 memory modules are on the way.

How well does the PC3200XL memory performs? Read on and find out...

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