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Right, overclockerz. As you can already noticed, this product is made for exactly this category. People who tweak the crap out of their system. To be able to test this product to it's fullest potential we will need to overclock the PC and of course we'll do just that. We'll check this product with aggressive BIOS ram timings and CAS 2.5 (Column Address Strobe) latency to see where it halts. In this test we will make use of a test system that allows overclocking and memory tweaking from within the BIOS. The Albatron mainboard can handle a changed DDR:CPU ratio.
Oh and for your information, the EL in EL DDR is not named after some kind of Mexican food or something, EL simply means Enhanced Latency.
The Module
Let's take a closer look at the module.
We received a Dual Channel (paired) kit, 512 MB each.
The module is constructed out of a six layer PCB (Printed Circuit Board) and equipped with 4ns memory. You have to admit, the heat spreader is looking fancy. In fact it's one of the more beautiful looking modules I have seen. Personally I don't need the lights and night-rider stuff that some competition is making these days, it's a stick of memory for crying out loud. Of course it's on there to remove and dissipate heat as fast as possible from the memory chips. The heat spreader is firmly attached to the module. No colored PCB and furthermore the module looks very well-built, the performance test we ran can prove just that.
This module in fact supports a CAS latency of 2.5 at 2.5v (default) on a 533MHz rating. You can actually take it to CAS2 for 400 MHz, it doesn't get much faster then that people. Since it is OCZ memory, you can juice up the module up-to 3 volts. Quite useful for a stable overclock.
As stated, this is a paired (2x256MB or 2x512MB) kit for Dual Channel. Most older motherboards we have in our rigs these days only offer single-channel DDR266/333/400 support which only delivers half of the memory bandwidth. The Pentium 4 is very sensitive to memory bandwidth. If your mainboard supports Dual Channel, then please go for it.
Oh hey... packaging, but once you flip it around you'll notice a Guru3D.com editor's choice on there. Standard packaging or a little over ambitious OCZ? Ah it's right though, they are receiving the award.
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