The results show that with the voltage and speed the result are excellent. It appears that the new AMD Venice core with UTT BH5 shows great gains. When going down to a CAS latency lower then 2, like 1.5, shows little to no gain.
OCZ has done it again. This time they have stuck Winbound’s BH memory and UTT together, and created the OCZ Gold 2-2-2 memory. The results are on par or better then the VX I tested earlier. The results here mirror the results of the old BH-5 memory. Both responded well to more voltage and benefit from a burn in. The downside to this memory is voltage. It requires a lot of voltage to get flying at high speeds with low latency. Many boards don’t have enough volts to get this RAM up to speed.
The memory is only warranted up to up to 3.0v, which leaves this RAM with a lot of head room left unused in it. I went through and pumped as much as 3.6v into without any problems. Once over 3.0v extra cooling becomes a must to be error free. The Gold 2-2-2 can be fond for less then the VX. It holds up to the VX with voltage and also is priced less then the VX, making it a great bang for the buck. The OCZ Gold 2-2-2 has walked away from this review with the DevHardware Recommended award. I would highly recommend people that want low latency memory for gaming.
I would like to thank OCZ for providing us with the OCZ Gold 2-2-2 memory for review today. If you have any questions feel free to drop by the forums, or you can return to the front page and view so more articles.
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