OCZ Booster - Testing
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The Abit Ai7 is on the list of approved motherboards to use this with, so that is what I will use. You also need RAM that will make use of the extra volts. I have a pair of OCZ VX here. They are under warranty to 3.5 volts, and crave volts. If there was ever memory that needed volts, this would be it. The rest of the computer looks like this:
- Abit Ai7
- Pentium 4 2.6c
- 2 512MB OCZ VX PC3200
- 6800
- Samsung 80 GB SATA hard drive
Along with giving the memory more voltage, it also has “PowerClean Technology.” This is supposed to give cleaner, healthier power to the memory. To test the DDR Booster, I will compare the speed obtained with the DDR Booster to the speed from the ai7. Once the voltage surpasses the max of the motherboard, I will use the DDR Booster strictly. The timings will be fixed at 2.5-3-3-7.
The results from the PowerClean were a MHz ahead of the power from the board at some voltage levels. I really wasn’t expecting much; my PSU is fairly stable, and the voltage to the memory doesn’t fluctuate a whole lot. Where the board stopped and the DDR Booster continued, I saw a steady increase in stable speed of the memory. The DDR Booster is rated to 3.4 on the ai7, and I achieved that.
I also wondered how far it could go. I was able to go as far as 3.48 safely. When I set it higher, the memory got no more extra volts, so this looks like the limit for my board.
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