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Product Application:

PC2-9200XLC DDR2

Product Provided by:

OCZ

Available at:

Newegg

Memory MSRP:

$235.99

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

July 9th, 2007

 

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Results

     The majority of testing will be done using SiSoft Sandra Pro Business version.  ClubOC has been using SiSoft Sandra for many years now and it's pretty much the main benchmarking program we use for testing memory.

 
Memory Speed / Bus Speed Linked / Unlinked Timings Int Buff'd Float Buff'd
1150MHz / 1066MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 5449MB/s 5498MB/s
1150MHz / 1150MHz Linked (1:1) 5-5-5-18 5904MB/s 5852MB/s
1150MHz / 1333MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 6679MB/s 6590MB/s
1150MHz / 1600MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 7750MB/s 7809MB/s
1250MHz / 1066MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 5512MB/s 5507MB/s
1250MHz / 1250MHz Linked (1:1) 5-5-5-18 6477MB/s 6531MB/s
1250MHz / 1333MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 6984MB/s 6912MB/s
1250MHz / 1600MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 7914MB/s 8018MB/s

     Anything above 1250MHz I had to loosen the timings up so much that the performance was lower, 1250MHz is the speed I decided was the max overclock, based on performance.

Speed Linked / Unlinked Timings Read Write Copy Latency
1150MHz / 1066MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 7163MB/s 4869MB/s 5437MB/s 57.2ns
1150MHz / 1150MHz Linked (1:1) 5-5-5-18 7773MB/s 5119MB/s 5670MB/s 59.8ns
1150MHz / 1333MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 8824MB/s 5935MB/s 6531MB/s 54.5ns
1150MHz / 1600MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 10495MB/s 6984MB/s 7374MB/s 49.8ns
1250MHz / 1066MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 7174MB/s 4923MB/s 5448MB/s 56.9ns
1250MHz / 1250MHz Linked (1:1) 5-5-5-18 8390MB/s 5648MB/s 6135MB/s 53.5ns
1250MHz / 1333MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 8965MB/s 6125MB/s 6756MB/s 53.2ns
1250MHz / 1600MHz Unlinked 5-5-5-18 10703MB/s 7108MB/s 7679MB/s 48.3ns

     Everest tests the memory in a bunch of different ways.  That's one of the reasons I like to use it.  Overall, the memory performed very well.  Now there's just one more thing to test.  How well does the water block cool the memory?

Cooling Speed Idle Load
air 1150MHz 28°C 34°C
air 1250MHz 28°C 34°C
water 1150MHz 25°C 28°C
water 1250MHz 25°C 28°C

     As you can see, water cooling obviously helped with the heat.  The memory really didn't get that hot on air, but every little bit of cooling helps.

Conclusion

     OCZ has been among the top enthusiast memory manufacturers for a long time.  With innovations like this, they are likely to stay at the top for a very long time to come.  OCZ has paired the right memory chips with the right PCB and put on the best cooling.  With a combination like that, you are bound to get some top performing memory.  You'll definitely impress your pals at the next LAN party by sporting water-cooled memory. To get this 2GB kit, you're going to have to shell out $235.99.  With the rapidly falling memory prices, it may be hard to justify this kind of money for DDR2 memory, but it's very fast and very cool.  Club Overclocker Recommended.

Innovation:

10 out of 10

Performance:

9.0 out of 10

Quality:

9.0 out of 10

Stability:

9.0 out of 10

Overclocking:

9.0 out of 10

Software/Drivers Pack:

N/A

Value:

8.0 out of 10

Overall Rating 9.0

Project Skill Level
(10 being most difficult)

5 out of 10

 

 

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