OCZ PC2-4200EB: Reaching for DDR2-800
by Wesley Fink on December 21, 2004 3:37 PM EST- Posted in
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800FSB Performance Test Configuration
Performance of the OCZ DDR2 was first compared to tested DDR2 memory at DDR2 533 (PC2-4200) and DDR2 667 (PC2-5300), two standard values tested in the DDR2 roundup. Test conditions for this first phase of testing were kept as close as possible to those used in our DDR2 Roundup. Since our roundup tests were limited by the capabilities of the motherboard and CPU to DDR686, we made no attempt to test at the DDR686 setting, which was an artificial constraint that all tested memory had reached.| 800FSB 925XE Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | Intel Pentium 4 LGA 775 2.8GHz (800MHz FSB) |
| RAM: | 2X1GB OCZ PC2-4200EB (DS) 2X512MB Corsair XMS2 5300 PRO (DS) 2X512MB Crucial PC2-4300U (DS) 2X512MB Geil PC2-4300 (SS) 2X256MB Kingmax DDR2-533 (SS) 2X512MB Kingston PC2-4300 (SS) 2X512MB Micron PC2-4300U (DS) 2X512MB Mushkin DDR2 533 (SS) 2X512MB OCZ Premier PC2 4300 (SS) |
| Hard Drives | Maxtor MaXLine III Serial ATA 250GB 7200RPM drive 16MB Cache, NCQ PCI/PCIe Speed PCI fixed at 33, PCIe and SATA not fixed |
| Bus Master Drivers: | Intel Chipset Driver 6.0.0.1014 |
| Video Card(s): | nVidia 6800 GT PCI Express, 256MB, 1024x768x32 |
| Video Drivers: | nVidia 61.77 |
| Heat Sink Fan: | Thermaltake Jungle 512 (CL-P0037) |
| Power Supply: | OCZ 520 PowerStream 520 Watt |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | Asus P5AD2-E (925XE) with 103b07 Beta BIOS |
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MS - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
JasonIt is certainly true that if you have a system backbone that is not capable of taking advantage of the peripherals it will put a little damper on the enthusiasm. On the other hand, don't blame the components for that.
One of the biggest issues is that the P4, no matter what you do cannot take advantage of latencies or bandwidth. The Prescott is a little better than the Northwood in that respect but it is still the bottleneck. Chances are that Intel finally will wake up and do something about this problem but maybe not. However, from the standpoint of a memory manufacturer, all we can do is try to provide THE very best solution and I firmly believe that we have done just that. Whether anybody wants it or not is a different story --- even though the latter could become our problem... :)
Wesley Fink - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
#9 - We don't often mention exact price in a review because it is always changing and reviews are read and reread in the future. This is particularly true with memory. Right now, a 2x1GB kit is about $818. The 1GB kit with SS 512MB dimms is about $435.As we said in the review, this is expensive memory.
formulav8 - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
This was most likely a HAND-Picked Dimm that OCZ sent to anandtech. Wait until there is real experiance with this memory to see if it is real or not.Jason
skunkbuster - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
how much does this cost? i dont think i saw it mentioned in the reviewbcoupland - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
What I find ironic with all this huge bandwidth on the 1066 fsb p4's, is that a S754 3700+ with 3.2 GB/s can still beat it in most tests, some more than others. Nice Ram, though.bigtoe36 - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
GuysI haven't seen any other DDR2 clock as good as these dimms. Running 3-2-2- at DDR700+ is pretty impressive. Maybe we need to blame the boards or the cpu's for the lack of speed. Im sure if AMD moves to DDR2 running dimms at DDR700 3-2-2 would be pretty damned fast.
CBone - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
How did the other sticks do in the 1066 FSB bench? I'm going to guess that if there was a difference, it was so slight as to be negligible.It seems that everyone is waiting for the great white hope in DDR2, but manufacturers are delivering the great white hype. So far it looks like ALL DDR2 performs and overclocks about the same so you should buy as cheap as you can and not bother getting the overpriced Corsair or OCZ.
formulav8 - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
Was it mainly just for the oc or the lower timings? I guess if for ocing it is nice. But for timings it is worthless?? That is what I was trying to understand with my above post.Jason
formulav8 - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
Unless I was looking at the wrong numbers, this memory is worthless. There was NOT EVEN 1% increase in performance? It increased the points in some benches but by a wopping 0.5%-0.9% on average???I am not sure why this review is so excited about this memory??
You get a much higher performance increase with DDR1 at low timings compared to high timings. Up to 4-5% increase in almost every bench.
Did I compare the wrong numbers or something??
Jason
Icehawk - Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - link
I'm very impressed that they got dual channel 1gb sticks working so well in DDR2 - wish they could do the same for DDR :( A64 + 2gb DC would be nice...