OCZ has worked up quite an image, delivering excellent memory modules which are known for surpassing their rated speeds by quite a margin. We previously looked at the performance on Intel and A64 S939 using these sticks, but at that time that our reviewer for S939 had not discovered the limiting A64’s on-die memory controller issue.

These platinum sticks are also platinum colored, and they look “the part”, but while these heat spreaders look very hefty and good for heavy duty, I experienced very high temperatures during testing (too hot to touch), and adding active cooling increased OC limits!


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PCB design

OCZ is using Brain Power’s PCB design, same one as G.Skill.



Overclocking Experience

When using 2 memory modules performance is very similar to the GSkill sticks, but OCZ is able to achieve higher speeds at tight timings.

2 * OCZ EL PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2
Timings	FSB/CPU	Q3A	3DMark2001SE
CL2 2-2-10	216Mhz / 2268Mhz	373.9	14290
CL2.5 3-3-10	233Mhz / 2213Mhz	366.1	14127
CL3 4-4-10	< 240Mhz	n/a	n/a

With only 1 stick I reached highest FSB among the TCCD memories in this roundup using tight timings, topping out at 221Mhz! With relaxed timings the modules climb up to 290Mhz.

1 * OCZ EL PC3200 Platinum Rev. 2
Timings	FSB/CPU	Q3A	3DMark2001SE
CL2 2-2-10	221Mhz / 2210Mhz	374.7	14281
CL2.5 3-3-10	290Mhz / 2175Mhz	387.2	14426
CL3 4-4-10	< 305Mhz	n/a	n/a

The Brain Power PCB B6U808 does not seem to cope well when using 2 modules, but they soar quite high in single module mode! OCZ’s implementation offers higher speeds when tight timings are used.