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Well, here we are then: the last page of my, probably last, DDR2 review. It is with mixed feelings that I leave the DDR2 reviews behind me, as I've really enjoyed playing around with the memory over the last 1,5 years. I've always found memory a very interesting PC component to tune - hey a guy has to have a hobby - but at the end of 2007, DDR2 is not as "sexy" as it ones was and less and less people seem to be interested in the reviews. The reasons for this are not far to be fetched: as I've stated numerous times, DDR2 does not evolve any more. The only evolution I can see is the migration towards bigger modules (2Gb sticks resulting in 4Gb dual channel kits), but I still cannot find a real reason to upgrade a 32bit operating system to 4Gb of ram. A speed upgrade beyond 1200Mhz has never happened for DDR2, and will not happen either now that all the recourses are in the DDR3 basket. All of this does not mean that DDR2 are not great products any more, because today's products prove that they are. I'd even go as far as to say: why choose DDR3 when you've got DDR2 here that scales way beyond 500Mhz ? You can have any motherboard now and overclock it as far as it can go, which would be around 530-550 front side bus for the best out there right now, and still use this memory! Faster memory, or DDR3 will of course always have the enthusiast market, where the last performance percentage counts, and on the long term it will even have the midrange and value markets, but not today! Today's market in value and midrange is purely for DDR2, and there's no reason to be sorry for that when you've got some awesome value memory kits like we reviewed today. What I'm saying is that the threesome we just finished reviewing is probably the only memory kit today's overclocker will ever need... So, unless some miraculous DDR2 speed bump is delivered over the next few months, my days with DDR2 are almost over. As a memory enthusiast, I'll be switching to DDR3 too because I want to, not because I need to. For almost anybody else, I really don't see the point, yet.  What's to conclude over this mid-range OCZ overview? First of all, we have to say that each tested module offers great performance for money. Every kit would make a great addition to any self-built system, or as a cheap upgrade of value ram in your PC. What did strike me though is the immense choice OCZ offers within their different line-ups. In this respect these modules are very much competing with each other, and with a lot more modules in the OCZ range. So in the end, here's our take on the OCZ PC6400 Reaper HPC modules :  Good headroom on cas 4 and especially cas 5 Great looks nVidia EPP certified Extended voltage protection up to 2.2 Volts Lifetime warranty with proven OCZ service Price-performance ratio below some competing chips Heatpipe cooler is - in case of Elpida chips - more for fun than for coolingand the OCZ PC6400 Flex XLC : Great headroom at cas 4, very good UMPR rating Great looks for the casemodder nVidia EPP certified Extended voltage protection up to 2.4 Volts Lifetime warranty with proven OCZ service Price-performance ratio below some competing chips Water-cooling does not bring extra performance to the tableand finally, the OCZ PC6400 SLI kit : Absolute superb value for money Nice OC headroom 1T Command rate performance out of the box nVidia EPP certified Extended voltage protection up to 2.3 Volts Lifetime warranty with proven OCZ service` None at all for this priceIf ever one memory kit deserved it, it is this one, so we're proud to present our recommendation to : Recommended for  Thank you ! At this point a very well deserved thank you goes out to Tobias from OCZ Technology, who was kind enough to lend us all these DDR2 modules for a test drive, and I hope he will continue his trust in our site as a review platform for years to come. I hope you liked this little roundup of OCZ "Elpida" memory kits on the P35 platform. I'm signing off now, but not without wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and an extremely good New Year in 2008. See you soon !  New-Year Give-away !! For our New-Year celebrations, and with many thanks to OCZ, we're giving away our 2Gb review kit of the OCZ PC6400 Flex XLC, and we're sending it out to any reader around the globe that is able to answer two questions and fulfill one condition, more info on how to participate can be found here  More reviews in this category can be found below: |
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