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OCZ EL PC3200 Platinum Revision 2 Dual Channel Kit Introduction Introduction Today we're going to take a look at a low latency dual channel memory kit from OCZ. As most of you already know, OCZ makes some of the best performing RAM on the market today. OCZ's RAM is also very well known for its overclocking capabilities. Before we get too far along, I'd like to thank Andy at OCZ for providing the sample kit used in this review. Specifications Let's see just what we're dealing with here: Specifications:
Manufacturer: OCZ Technology
Speed: DDR400(PC3200)
Type: 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
Error Checking: Non-ECC
Registered/Unbuffered: Unbuffered
Cas Latency: 2-2-2-5
Support Voltage: 2.75V
Bandwidth: 3.2GB/s
Organization: two 64M x 64 -Bit
Warranty: Lifetime Whether you're running an AMD rig or the latest Pentium on a motherboard that supports DDR, this sure looks like RAM you'd want to be using, doesn't it? The great thing about low latency RAM is that you can always loosen the timings up for overclocking! With that said, let's get right to the testing, shall we? Test System CPU: Pentium 4 C 2.6GHz
Motherboard: MSI 865PE Neo2-P
Video Card: ATi X800 Pro
Hard Drive 1: Maxtor 40GB DiamondPlus 8
Hard Drive 2: Western Digital 80GB Caviar Special Edition
Power Supply: Enermax Noisetaker 470W We will be comparing OCZ's PC3200 EL to Corsair's PC4000 Pro. The Corsair PC4000 Pro was left at it's default timings of 3-4-4-8 for this comparison. The OCZ PC3200 EL was run at 2-2-2-5 for the 200MHz and 205MHz tests. Since it would not run on my test system at 210MHz with those timings, latency was increased until it would run. This happened at 2-3-3-6. These timings were used all the way through the 235MHz tests. At 240MHz, I had to go to 2-3-3-7. At 245MHz it took 2.5-3-3-7 to get the tests to run through to completeion without corruption or crashing. Try as I might, there was no going to 250MHz and getting the tests to run at all.
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