OCZ EL PC2-8000 XTC: Low Latency PLUS DDR2-1100
by Wesley Fink on April 3, 2006 12:01 AM EST- Posted in
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Highest Memory Speed (Highest Ratio) Performance
The Highest Ratio Memory Speed results are rather odd when we used the DDR2-1000 results for comparison. This does NOT mean the OCZ is slower, it is just an anomaly of the test procedure. The OCZ is the first memory that can reach 1067 in our testing, and the Highest Ratio speed is therefore only slightly above the 1067 speed at DDR2-1100. Other memories required more overclocking from the DDR2-800 lower ratio to reach their top speed, and thus were running at a higher CPU speed than the OCZ at DDR2-1100. To provide a fairer assessment of the top ratio speed we used results of the OCZ PC2-8000 running at a DDR2-889 base ratio at DDR2-1060 - the highest stable speed we could achieve with 4-3-4 memory timings..
The Highest Ratio Memory Speed results are rather odd when we used the DDR2-1000 results for comparison. This does NOT mean the OCZ is slower, it is just an anomaly of the test procedure. The OCZ is the first memory that can reach 1067 in our testing, and the Highest Ratio speed is therefore only slightly above the 1067 speed at DDR2-1100. Other memories required more overclocking from the DDR2-800 lower ratio to reach their top speed, and thus were running at a higher CPU speed than the OCZ at DDR2-1100. To provide a fairer assessment of the top ratio speed we used results of the OCZ PC2-8000 running at a DDR2-889 base ratio at DDR2-1060 - the highest stable speed we could achieve with 4-3-4 memory timings..
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plewis00 - Monday, April 3, 2006 - link
If Half-Life 2 was producing anomalous results why didn't you replace it when you suspected a problem with some other game instead. Because haven't you now voided your HL2 benchmarks effectively?Wesley Fink - Monday, April 3, 2006 - link
The HL2 Lost Coast results were consistnet for this round of tests, but they did not compare well to earlier test results. We have now discovered the benchmarking issue and the HL2 results will be updated as soon as testing is complete.Earlier tests were run with HDR (High Dynamic Range) enabled, while current tests were run with HDR disabled. We are now testing with HDR enabled.
Avalon - Monday, April 3, 2006 - link
You guys need to do something about those memory setting charts. The ones where you display the different timings you could achieve at different FSB settings for a particular memory...mainly, the part where you have "highest performance" I find misleading, because you have increased the CPU speed, so it almost makes it look like the performance results you have next to the settings are getting a huge boost in performance by going from one setting to the next, when it's really the CPU speed causing that.Maybe make a note on the chart stating that at highest performance mode, the CPU speed has been increased.
Other than that, not a bad review. Good memory, it seems.
Wesley Fink - Monday, April 3, 2006 - link
The information on which values were overclocked was already in the table, but we revised the chart to try to make the Overclocked values stand out more and to clearly identify the stock performance speeds and values.SnoMunke - Monday, April 3, 2006 - link
Interesting article...now about the grammar..."OCZ EL PC2-8000 is the best performing DDR2 memory we have ever tested, clearly outperforming any DDR2 that has been tested at AnandTech."
Wesley Fink - Monday, April 3, 2006 - link
An edited sentence and the original sentence got accidentally combined. Thanks for pointing this out. It is now corrected.