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Right, OCZ memory. As you already noticed, this product is made for a rather specific category of PC users, tweakers and overclockers. People who tweak the crap out of their system, I like to call them enthusiasts. To be able to test this product to it's fullest potential we will need to overclock the PC and of course we'll do just that.
The Module
Let's take a closer look at the memory modules.
We received a Dual Channel (paired) kit, 512 MB each. The module is constructed out of a six layer PCB (Printed Circuit Board). You have to admit, the golden (yet copper) heat spreader is looking fancy. In fact it's one of the more beautiful looking modules out there. The heat spreader is firmly attached to the module. A green colored PCB and furthermore what catches the eye is that the module looks very well-built.
This DDR2 module in fact supports a CAS latency of 4 at 1.8v (default, I recommend 1.9 volts though). If you need for example a DDR667 rating you definitely need to increase that voltage to at least 2.1 volts, so check your BIOS capability before buying. But hey look at that rating, PC5400 memory, that's 667 MHz capable memory. Sweet.
As stated, this is a paired (2x512MB) kit for Dual Channel configuration. The older motherboards we have in our rigs these days only offer single-channel DDR266/333/400 support which only delivers half of the memory bandwidth. The Pentium 4 is very sensitive to memory bandwidth. If your mainboard supports Dual Channel, then please go for it. Likely ALL mainboards that need DDR2 support Dual channel.
Dual is the keyword these days huh? SLI -> Dual Graphics cards, Dual Core processors, Dual Channel memory and as am writing this I'm looking at yes, dual monitors.
You know, the best utilization on CPU FSB versus the memory is 100% 1:1. So a 800 MHz FSB versus 800 MHz DDR memory would be ideal. We're not quite there yet I'm afraid but I wonder how long it'll take before we have quadruple channel memory.
And the packaging. On the backside of the packaging we see... aah you'll see :)
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