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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 ModuleLet's take a closer look at the module.
We received a Dual Channel (paired) kit, 512 MB each.
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.