OCZ PC3500 Platinum: A Return to the Fastest Timings

Performance Comparisons

Performance of the OCZ PC3500 Platinum was compared to all of the memory recently tested in:

OCZ 4200EL: Tops in Memory performance
Mushkin PC4000 High Performance: DDR500 PLUS
Corsair TwinX1024-4000 PRO: Improving DDR500 Performance
Mushkin & Adata: 2 for the Fast-Timings Lane
Searching for the Memory Holy Grail — Part 2

Memory performance was compared at DDR400, the rated speed of the memory, and the highest stable memory speed the memory could achieve. While PC3500 Platinum can not run at DDR500 speed, it is the rated speed of many of the tested modules. Therefore, DDR500 is also included to make it easier to compare performance of the memory modules. To be considered stable, the memory must be able to run Gun Metal 2 Benchmark 2, Quake 3, UT2003, and Super PI to 2MM places.

Results are compared for Quake 3, Sandra 2004 UNBuffered Memory Test, and Super PI. SiSoft Sandra reports 2 results for each memory test — an Integer value and a Float value. Results reported in our charts are the result of averaging the INT and FLOAT scores, which are normally close in value. INT and FLOAT scores were added and divided by 2 for our reported score.