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OCZ EL DDR PC4000 Gold VX Memory Review

Memory by petervandamned @ 2005-08-07

Goldfinger is back... with a vengeance. This time he has got his hands on some OCZ heat spreaders. Is it just a plated gold layer or plain gold? In other words: Will it go for the golden medal?

Memtest Results

Benching the gold ones

Memtest86 displays Memory bandwidth and CPU L1/L2 cache performance

1 = L1 cache
2 = L2 cache
3 = Memory

It’s an easy method to check changes in CPU speed and Memory timings.

The first configuration was set with help from Tony from the OCZ Company. I surely would like to share his setting with you all. These settings can be done by changing them in your bios or using a handy program made by CodeRed called A64 tweaker. These are for CL2 2-2-9:

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As we want the fastest memory speeds, I have changed some settings, the only way to see what effect each setting has is testing, testing and testing
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As you can see only the results for the Memory bandwidth increased, making my tweaking a success :).

275Mhz CL2 2-2-5 is quite an impressive results for these PC4000 modules!

After a fresh install on my WD Raptor I was ready to find out how these sticks will perform in Windows ->

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