OCZ Platinum Edition PC2-4200 EB - Testing
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The test-bed:
- DFI Infinity 975X/G (Intel 975X based)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Revision B1
- Gainward 7300GT
- 2x1GB OCZ Platinum Series PC2-4200 EB (533MHz 3-2-2-8)
- 2x1GB Corsair PC2-5400UL (675MHz 3-3-2-8; tested at 666MHz)
- 2x1GB Crucial PC2-6400 (800MHz 4-4-4-8)
- Windows XP-64
- WD 74GB Raptor
The memory was tested against two other Fatbody D9 based memory kits, Crucial’s PC2-6400 offering, and Corsair’s PC2-5400UL offering, in SuperPi 1M and 32M, SiSoft’s Bandwidth test, and Everest’s latency and bandwidth tests.
Test | OCZ 4200EB | Corsair 5400UL | Crucial 6400 |
Super Pi 1M (lower is better) | 30.079 sec | 29.812 sec | 29.781 sec |
Super Pi 8M (lower is better) | 5m 36.734 sec | 5m 31.172 sec | 5m 29.578 sec |
Sandra Bandwidth (Float) (higher is better) | 5119 MB/s | 5220 MB/s | 5450 MB/s |
Sandra Bandwidth (Int) (higher is better) | 5103 MB/s | 5212 MB/s | 5436 MB/s |
Everest Latency (lower is better) | 68.4 ns | 68.4 ns | 66.0 ns |
Everest Copy (higher is better) | 4455 MB/s | 4802 MB/s | 5105 MB/s |
Everest Read (higher is better) | 8197 MB/s | 10041 MB/s | 11057 MB/s |
Everest Write (higher is better) | 4710 MB/s | 4806 MB/s | 4808 MB/s |
Interpreting the Results
The OCZ sticks came out at the bottom in every test, though this is to be expected, given their low default clocks compared with the competing sticks, which were also priced significantly higher than these sticks (the OCZs at $240, Corsair’s at $600 and the Crucial’s at $375). I suspect that this RAM’s riches lie in its overclocking abilities.
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