Searching for the Memory Holy Grail - Part 2
by Wesley Fink on August 26, 2003 11:11 PM EST- Posted in
- Memory
OCZ 4000 Copper
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OCZ 4000 was supplied with copper-colored heatspreaders. OCZ names their memory by the heatspreader color, so we have names like OCZ 3700 Gold, 3500 Platinum, and 4000 Copper. Since the Platinum name is usually reserved for the lowest latency modules, we can hope that we’ll be seeing a low-latency DDR500 some time in the future. The 512 MB modules were supplied in a Dual-Channel kit. Like Geil, OCZ uses chip blanks, which are labeled with the OCZ ID and speed rating. OCZ has confirmed that Hynix blanks are used in producing OCZ 4000.
We do not know exactly how OCZ achieved such incredible overclocking with their PC4000 memory, but we were able to attain an overclock of DDR552 in our testing. At lower speeds, the performance of OCZ 4000 is very comparable to Corsair and Geil, which also use Hynix chips in their modules. We did a quick scan of other reviews of OCZ 4000 to see if our results were in-line, and we found others who were also finding high overclocks in the same range with OCZ 4000. This is the first memory that we have tested that passes 1100FSB.
| OCZ 4000 Copper — 2 x 512 MB Double-Bank | |||||
| Speed | Memory Timings & Voltage | Quake3 fps |
Sandra UNBuffered | Sandra Standard Buffered | Super PI 2M places (time in sec) |
| 400DDR 800FSB |
2.5-3-4-5 2.55V |
319.67 | INT 2620 FLT 2657 |
INT 4701 FLT 4742 |
132 |
| 500DDR 1000FSB |
2.5-3-4-6 2.65V |
400.10 | INT 3282 FLT 3324 |
INT 5965 FLT 5934 |
106 |
| 552DDR 1104FSB |
3-4-4-8 2.85V |
435.27 | INT 3513 FLT 3617 |
INT 6468 FLT 6505 |
97 |
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
Okay... So I have the kingston ram, and I pulled it out to take a look at it... it has 4 chips on each side.. does that make it double sided or does that mean it's a single sided like the one in this article?Wesley Fink - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
#2 -As I said in the review "You will have to decide if the increases in performance from using faster memory are worth the cost of that speedier memory. For some, these increases will matter a great deal, while for others, they will not be worth the cost."
Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
OCZ Rocks :-DAnonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
#1, get a life, no one likes a blind haters. OCZ has proven themselves, I'm sorry your you feel your geek life has been threatened.Anyway, great review as always Wesley. Keep up the excellent work. :)
AgaBooga - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
I am currently reading the first page and I saw "Quake3 Demo FOUR.dm_66" and since I was first browsing it before reading it, I think it said "Quake FOUR!" But then, I went back since I was scrolling down quickly only to see it was Quack ;) 3, hehe.Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
You have got to be kidding me. You're going to suggest that 6fps(at most) in UT2003 is worth spending double the price on RAM?Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
Well I'm not going to bother reading the article, but I'll take a wild guess and say OCZ was declared the winner.