OCZ Gold XTC DDR2 - Testing
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We will take a look at a few different benchmarks that have to do with the computer's memory. The variables are going to be timings and speed of the memory; we'll observe the effects this has on the benchmarks. The test computer is comprised of the following:
Intel Pentium E2140
Abit IP35-E
2 GB OCZ Gold GX XTC
MSI 8600 GT OC
OCZ Powerstream 520 watt
Window Vista
The first test configuration is the stock settings and speed. It's DDR2-800, running at 400 MHz, with timings of 5-5-5-12. After this I tried to tighten up those timings. I was not very happy with the results I got. The lowest I could get the timings down to was 4-5-5-12; anything lower failed to boot into Windows without crashing and blue screening. If that wasn't discouraging enough, the top speed for this memory with these timings was 202 MHz, a gain of only 2 MHz over stock.
After these findings I didn't think that this memory would turn out to be anything special. The last test was maximum speed with stock timings. This surprised me a little; I wasn't expecting to get much out of these, I though over 450MHz would be a bonus. I was able to get the memory up to 470 MHz, or DDR2-940. This was a little more than I thought they would be able to manage. Still, nothing here is record breaking or near the top ten best sticks of RAM.
Everest
This suite of programs contains three memory benchmarks, and I utilized all of them for this review. These benchmarks show us the memory read, write and latency of each test speed.
The difference between the stock and lowest timings is nearly nothing. We only see a difference when we overclock the memory to the maximum stable speed. The difference is fairly big in synthetic benchmarks. In the real world there would be only a small bump in performance.
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