OCZ Tech 256MB PC3200 DDR 400 Ram
Review by Paul Machado on March 25, 2002

Product Supplied By: OCZ Tech
Retail Price: $99 USD

Testing:

Test Setup:

Ah and now for the fun part. You want results right.  Well the results I received were pretty fast and high. As you will see in the picture below I was able to reach a stable fsb speed of 209Mhz while running at 2.5 Cas Latency. At 2.0 Cas I was able to reach 190Mhz fsb which is very high as well compared to other brands of memory. The performance of this ram is outstanding and quite the best I have tested. Here is the benchmark.

As you can see the memory bandwidth is very high as well. I was able to reach high fsb speeds but stability would begin to lack. The 209Mhz that I reached was 100% stable and running 24 hours for more than a week now. I am sure with some more voltage this ram would run higher but with the Asus A7V333 the maximum is 2.8v for the ram.

In the above benchmark you can see that PC800 was terribly beaten by the OCZ PC3200. What I find so impressing is that the 1.2Ghz Thunderbird that I used for the review does not support SSE instructions but yet it still comes on top quite a bit.

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Conclusion:

The overall performance, quality and specifications of this ram are excellent. So far I have not run into any problem what so ever with the ram. I have tried to find something bad to say :) about this ram but there have been so far. All I can say is that some more voltage is needed to run this ram at 200MHz+ and stable but that is common with any ram.

Pros:

-Insane speeds
-Great performance
-Heat Spreaders
-Cas Latency of 2 up to 190Mhz gsb

Cons:

-Not yet available in 512MB sticks

With the review concluded the OCZ Tech 256MB DDR 400 receives Techware Labs's Editors Choice Award.