Performance Test Configuration

The Memory testbed for evaluating the OCZ 4200EL is the same used in our earlier reviews of DDR500 and other High-Speed Memory.

Mushkin PC4000 High Performance: DDR500 PLUS
Corsair TwinX1024-4000 PRO: Improving DDR500 Performance
Mushkin & Adata: 2 for the Fast-Timings Lane
Searching for the Memory Holy Grail — Part 2

All test conditions were as close as possible to those in our earlier memory reviews.


 INTEL 875P Performance Test Configuration
Processor(s): Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz (800MHz FSB)
RAM: 2 x 512MB OCZ 4200EL(DS)
2 x 512MB Mushkin PC4000 High Performance (DS)
2 x 512MB Corsair TwinX4000 PRO (DS)
2 x 512MB Mushkin Level II PC3500 (DS)
2 x 256MB Adata DDR450 (SS)
2 x 512MB Adata PC4000 (DS)
2 x 512MB Corsair PC4000 (DS)
2 x 512MB Geil PC4000 (DS)
4 x 256MB Kingston PC4000 (SS)
2 x 256MB Kingston PC4000 (SS)
2 x 512MB OCZ PC4000 (DS)
4 x 256MB OCZ PC3700 GOLD (DS)
Hard Drives 2 Western Digital Raptor Serial ATA 36.7GB 10,000 rpm drives in an Intel ICH5R RAID configuration
PCI/AGP Speed Fixed at 33/66
Bus Master Drivers: 875P Intel INF Update v5.00.1012, SATA RAID drivers installed, but IAA not installed
Video Card(s): ATI 9800 PRO 128MB, 128MB aperture, 1024x768x32
Video Drivers: ATI Catalyst 3.7
Power Supply: Vantec Stealth 470Watt Aluminum
Operating System(s): Windows XP Professional SP1
Motherboards: Asus P4C800-E (875) with 1011 Release BIOS

OCZ targets their 4200EL at the Intel 875/865 enthusiast. Since 4200EL is not targeted at Athlon, performance on an Athlon64 or nForce2 Ultra 400 was not tested.

Test Settings

The following settings were tested with OCZ 4200EL:
  1. 800FSB/DDR400 — the highest stock speed supported on 875/865 motherboards.
  2. 1000FSB/DDR500 — the specified rating of the majority of recent memory modules that we have tested.
  3. 1066FSB/DDR533 — the specified rating of OCZ 4200EL.
  4. Highest Stable Overclock — the highest settings that we could achieve with this memory and other memory that we have tested.
These are the same settings used in benchmarking other memory in the above list of memory tests, except for the addition of a 533 value for 4200EL.

Index Test Results
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  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - link

    Problem is #4, DDR500 isn't useless. You're ignoring results if you can't see that.
  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - link

    Can you guys come up with something a little more useful than Sandra and the 4-year old Q3? Maybe something that actually illustrates how silly and useless this and other DDR500+ really is?
  • Zuni - Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - link

    The dupe entries were addressed.

    L8r
  • Anonymous User - Monday, October 13, 2003 - link

    Pulldown menu has DDR400 test results page linked 4 times so everything after that doesn't work properly
  • wicktron - Monday, October 13, 2003 - link

    great job wes.

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