The OCZ comes out with the high performance market with all of the latest DDR3 memory in the new Core 7i system, but also accommodation with the older Intel range and the AMD memory needs. But with the range of OCZ have to offer to us enthusiast and even normal PC users in mind, with price values memory to those over-clockable and spot a lot of heat-sinks to melt a wedding ring for any special gal.
But we are going to looks at the OCZ Reaper series DDR2 memory, the Memory being to see the aluminum and copper overuse in cooling solution in this, but still having to be a over-clocked version of the original 1066MHz, so the disregard of using a protruding fin to externally exhaust heat rather than having the fin to directly touching the memory chips looks rather reasonable. With the heat-pipes efficiently transfer the heat but the direct contact can be a real reduction of the retail price but the design can have some advantages and disadvantages like being bulky and tall for any small system. But tech specs say that this is a PC2-9600 interface with T2 timings 5-5-5-18 as its normal timings, plus the memory going 2.1V in startup saying to me that the over-clocked 1200MHz FSB has trouble being stable in low power consumption rating in about 1.8V, so just keep the memory in relatively at over 2.0V mark. But the real lacking of this memory is the usual green colour PCB layer in which it doesn’t look good when you see large difference in one colour style system AKA in a Gigabyte extreme series in the P45 chipset or in the MSI platinum P45 chipset with the DDR2 support looks kind of a non-contrast look, but if you are not those people or have a windowed case it can be the case of having this in the list of what to buy.
SO with the test bench came up with such mixed results with the over-clock ability in pretty limited with the bandwidth, but the latency can ease toe problem that really face, for multi-threading and also media encryption, are in the best forms with the OCZ, helping with the much faster latency keeping the timing low and score real high with the rest of the competition. Heat is a real problem and just going 40 degrees in a heavily air cooled case can be a problem in the summer times. So OCZ can compete with the best in high performance high frequency FSB and acquiring lower latencies, but the price being at the high $150’s online in single channel mode, even worse is going to happen to the price with the 2×2GB kits, yes this is an over-clockers dream of you are still in touch with older DDR2 memory but at this price we would expect a DDR3 memory interface with the same features filling this type of space in high performance memory.
