OCZ PC2-8800 Gold Edition

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Our OCZ DDR2 PC2-8800 Gold Edition memory kit does exactly what it's rated to do and performs very well in all the benchmarks that we threw at it. The modules use some of the best overclocking IC's on the market today as the Micron D9's love voltage and take off when you increase it. With that said the OCZ PC2-8800 Gold Edition modules are a great kit that is sure to push nearly all AMD AM2 and Intel Conroe based systems to the bleeding edge of stability.

The OCZ XTC heat spreaders look great and it was good to hear that OCZ is coming out with their own active memory cooler. Since active cooling is suggested when running modules with voltages and frequencies as high as the PC2-8800 kit we looked at today it would have been nice to have them for this article. In terms of overclocking these modules do what they are rated to do, but need a lot of voltage to run faster with stability. We were able to reach 1111MHz with aggressive 4-4-4-12 2T timings, but needed to increase the voltage so high that it voided the lifetime warranty to hit stability. At these speeds we were able to get the modules to perform the same as the Corsair XMS2 DOMINATOR PC2-8888 kit, but at the cost of our warranty. When we kept the timings loose and ran the modules at 2.42V (our motherboard didn't have 2.40V) we were able to get the 1100MHz modules up to 1140MHz with 100% stability at 5-6-6-15 timings.

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Since active cooling is suggested when running modules with voltages and frequencies as high as the PC2-8800 kit we looked at today it would have been nice to have them for this article.

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At 2.4V it does DDR2-1200 CL4-4-4-5 Test-setup: Core 2 Duo E6400 Asus P5B Deluxe Cellshock DDR2-1000 @ DDR1200 CL4-4-4-5, memory contains Micron D9GKX chips