In The Labs

Only one machine is good enough to give these modules a proper workout at MaXit HQ. Bring out the monsta. Danger Den watercooling, 850w psu, Asus P5B Delux and a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor capable of running at 3.7GHz.

The Titanium modules blew us away with there performance and overclockability. At SPD timings of 4-4-4-15 the modules were able to hit 1067MHz at 2.3 volts but the real fun began when we pumped the volts up to 2.4 and loosened the timings to 5-5-5-15. An incredible 1203MHz was reached with the Core 2 Duo cooking at 3.62GHz. Due to the way the memory strap works on the Asus P5B Delux on speeds above 400MHz FSB a reduction in performance was actually noted on the memory benchmarks. For this reason, we backed off to 400MHz FSB and 1198MHz for the memory. Have a look at Sandra tipping the 8000kb/s scale.

Just about as good as it gets. The Titanium VX2 modules seemed so happy to overclock. A lot of DDR2 we have tested seems so picky in Core 2 Duo systems. Alter the timings, muck around with the dividers and all hell breaks loose. We are happy to report the OCZ modules were the most stable and Core 2 Duo friendly DDR2 we have had the pleasure of testing.