Opening The Air Box

There's a warning label stuck to the pouch opening. Basically, it is just a reminder that the memory modules within are sensitive to electrostatic damage. You have been warned!

Removing it revealed the pouch opening. The pressure of the air within the Air Box is evident in this picture. There is no way you can push your finger into the Air Box to retrieve the memory modules. The Air Box has to be deflated to gain access to the memory modules.

All you need to do is pull out the black "stopper" and the Air Box will deflate.

Once deflated, the memory modules can be easily removed from the pouch.

Here are the four Mushkin PC4000 DDR SDRAM modules!

These memory modules with black heatspreaders are the older revision modules from Mushkin. For the purpose of this review, we will call them the Rev. A modules.

These memory modules with blue heatspreaders are the newer revision modules from Mushkin. For the purpose of this review, we will call them the Rev. B modules.

Of course, the colour of the heatspreaders do not actually denote anything. The colour of the heatspreaders used will vary from time to time. If you are looking for a particulary colour, you better let Mushkin know in advance!