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OCZ Platinum r2 DDR2-800 2GB Memory Kit
Performance Summary
First thing's first: the RAM would not boot with any kind of stability past 2.35V. Now, I know that's a lot of power, but it's not the kind of voltage that would damage RAM; rather, it shortens its lifespan. Even Crucial's budget DDR2-800 ran at 2.4. And the clock speed of the memory wasn't very mutable, even with the volts cranked up. Or down. At the stock 1.9V, the RAM only overclocked to 216MHz, and the highest I could achieve with it, with the loose 5-15-5-5 timings, was 240MHz. The memory wouldn't boot with 3-10-3-3 timings no matter what the voltages were set to. I spent most of my time making sure that I hadn't messed something up in the BIOS, but, sure enough, this was just crappy memory. Otherwise, at stock, the RAM did relatively well, competing with much more expensive memory. Overclocking Pushing the limits is part of the fun of building a computer, so it's important to check how well memory overclocks. Of course, as with all overclocking, your mileage may vary. We check three things: how high the memory overclocks with tight timings at 2.4 volts, how high the memory overclocks with loose timings at 2.4 volts, and, lastly, how high the memory overclocks at stock timings and voltages. To make sure that the processor is not affecting these results, we use a low multiplier; we underclock it.
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Page 1: Introduction & The Memory
Page 2: Testing: Synthetic Applications Page 3: Testing: Games Page 4: Performance Summary & Overclocking Page 5: Conclusion 
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