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With anything going out of the memory manufacturers are most of it is now the use of the triple channel technology and using it into the certified Core 7i boards. Surely the Core 7i is the first platform to go ahead with the use of the newer DDR3 memory as they standard memory theme and also use triple channel to as the same a RAID redundancy, it chares all of the information into the three memory modules.
So OCZ has some reference kits to go with the Core 7i chipset platform, but of course this type of memory module kits is only running at a standard 1600 MHz DDR3 memory, with memory latency timings is 8-8-8-24 and also has a voltage power standard of 1.67V. so everything here is low as far as I could think of a triple channel memory, more of the modules based on Intel is in the low 1.5V range but still yield a massive amount of bandwidth and also latency timings in that low voltage, I could think of any but the bad thing is that you have to acquire more experience on tweaking the memory in the BIOS setting. But lets get to the design of the memory module, it has a black metal heat-spreader and with a core 7i certified logo in the middle, so this basically means it is normally used for low profile case rigs or even in other gaming rigs who can buy a memory module at this price, plus the usual green color PCB also gives that it really does not appeal to the looks of it but by the real raw score it gets with it goes in a cycle of apps and total benchmark software.
Well the memory in the test show that it went well on the bandwidth applications with going about 15513MB/s in Everest but with some few alteration of the BIOS settings because of some uncooperative behaviour in the memory, it may be the cause of the XMP feature (extreme memory profile) or some memory recognition problem, we did both of them, update and tweaked to get the desired behaviour and started the test, but with that problem over with we have some problems running in some latency test but acquired a single score a 48.6ns not as bad as the mainstream DDR3 memory but able to go toe to toe with the corsair variants like the GT series.
With this kind of kits you should expect more thrown at, it with high profile heat-spreader running around the place and also a pre-stock setting at 1800MHz, but the XMP has an already placed setting on in but for much as you want a memory kit this can be for experience users.

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