OCZ PC2-4200EB: Reaching for DDR2-800

1066FSB Performance Test Settings

Using the updated DDR2 memory test bed, we ran our standard suite of memory performance benchmarks, which includes Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein-Enemy Territory, Super Pi and both SiSoft Sandra Standard Buffered and Unbuffered benchmarks.

The following settings were tested with OCZ PC2-4200EB:

1. 2.4GHz-800FSB-DDR2-533 - the highest stock speed supported on 925X/915 motherboards at a stock frequency used in all past DDR memory testing at AnandTech.
2. 2.4GHz-800FSB-DDR2-600 - a new ratio available on the Asus. Only the memory speed was varied - the CPU remained at 2.4GHz.
3. 2.84GHz-948FSB-DDR2-711 - starting from the #2 settings of 2.4GHz and DDR600, the FSB was raised until we reached the next 1066 stock memory ratio of DDR2-711.
4. 3.2GHz-1066FSB-DDR2-533 - a stock 1066FSB with 1:1 memory ratio.
5. 3.2GHz-1066FSB-DDR2-711 - a 3:4 memory ratio on the Asus P5AD2-E. The CPU speed remains the same as #4, with just a change in memory speed.
6. Highest Memory Speed - 3.7GHz-1232FSB-DDR2-821 - the highest memory speed that we could achieve with air cooling and conservative voltage increases.

Since this is the first run of these settings on the new memory test bed, results are only reported in a table. Future DDR2 memory tests will be reported in comparison charts using the new memory test bed.