Tech Review - OCZ EL DDR PC-3500 Gold GX XTC Memory
Hello again, my name is Rodney Reynolds and welcome to another video review. Today looking at the OCZ EL DDR PC-3500 Gold GX XTC Dual Channel Memory, the speed on this memory is 433 megahertz DDR or PC 3500 and has a CAS of two and a complete memory timing of 222 and 5. Now, what does DDR and CAS mean? DDR stands for Double Data Rate and that means it doubles the bandwidth of the memory by transferring data twice as fast on both the rising and the falling of the clock cycle. CAS stands for Column Access Select or Column Access Strobe and that essentially means the number of cycles for the memory to get information and then process that information.
Also keep in mind that a lower CAS is much better there are higher CAS so try and keep the CAS as low as possible when over clocking. This memory is also dual channel, which means better overall memory bandwidth resulting in superior performance but in order to benefit from this technology you will need to have a dual channel motherboard. None dual channel motherboards do not have 240 independent 64-bit memory controllers but dual channel boards do, which means they have a 128-bit memory interface.
Now this memory can be installed singly but obviously the performance will be much less at the same megahertz. Now, let’s have a closer look at this 184 pin un-buffered memory. Well, right away you’ll notice the fancy heat spreaders, well this are XTC or Extreme Thermal Convection heat spreaders, they optimize the thermal management of memory modules by promoting greater air flow by means of micro convection throughout what is usually the dead air space inside conventional heat spreader designs.
In this matter, build up of heat is avoided and thermal displacement of the memory components is off loaded more efficiently through the honeycomb design. At the same time mechanical stability is maintained. This memory also comes with the OCZ EVP or Extended Voltage Protection. This is a feature that allows over clockers to use a V demo, 3 volts plus or minus 5% without voiding their OCZ at lifetime warranty. Keep in mind the default voltage on this memory is 2.8.
Additionally, it has ULN or Ultra Low Noise Technology, ULN uses various printed circuit board technologies to reduce the amount of electric noise that is present in all high speed integrated circuits. This results in faster and mobile stable memory.
As you can see from the results this memory does perform very, very well and it’s even over clock able at its tight memory timing of 222 and 5. Now of course you can relax that memory timing and push this to even higher limits. This memory also has a very cool heat spreader but it’s only currently available in a one gigabyte kit. I would have like to see a two gigabyte kit but overall this is a kick ass product.
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