2x1GB OCZ EL DDR PC3200 Platinum ?

JudgeC · 16 Mar 2006 at 10:01

Hi

Does anyone know what revision these modules are that are currently selling at OcUK. Also has anyone else had any experience of running them on an ASUS P4GPL-X or any other i915-PL based board.

I am thinking of taking the plunge, but want to make sure I get some memory that sits well with my set-up.

Cheers

JudgeC

JudgeC · 16 Mar 2006 at 14:20

Oh well, I have taken the plunge.
It was at a very tempting price on 'This Week Only' and ever since I put my X1800XT in and rebuilt my system, BF2 has been not running as smoothly as it did before.
I look forward to ultra smooth BF2 play and it should help out with Oblivion when it comes out next week.

pieman109 · 17 Mar 2006 at 16:57

Have you got it yet? I've just ordered some of this memory meself a coupla hours ago. Let us know how it overclocks and timings, thanks.

JudgeC · 18 Mar 2006 at 11:24

pieman109 said:
Have you got it yet? I've just ordered some of this memory meself a coupla hours ago. Let us know how it overclocks and timings, thanks.

I can't really overclock this at the moment as the Multipliers are locked on my board and my CPU will not hit 2600Mhz (Uncommon for a Pentium-M 740) so I can't run higher than about 196/197 FSB. Having said that, it runs fine at the advertised 2-3-2-5 timings at 2.6v.

I tried putting 2.8v through it and running at 2-2-2-5 but got some errors in memtest. I don't know what voltages this mem will take, I can go up to 2.9v on my board, which shouldn't be a problem for it, I wouldn't have thought.

pieman109 · 18 Mar 2006 at 12:06

I've just noticed that in your sig say "the birthplace of HG wells", do you mean Hanwell, west london? If so, then I live round the corner from you. Anyways, I've not heard of any 2gig ram that'll do 2-2-2-5, the lowest they'll go is 2-3-2-5 iirc.

JudgeC · 18 Mar 2006 at 13:38

Hi

HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent. I think he moved to Hanwell as an adult.

I certainly can't get the OCZ to run 2-2-2-5 even with 2.9v, but I have no complaints with its performance so far. I certainly see the benifits in moving up from 1GB.

pieman109 · 18 Mar 2006 at 13:59

JudgeC said:
Hi

HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent. I think he moved to Hanwell as an adult.

I certainly can't get the OCZ to run 2-2-2-5 even with 2.9v, but I have no complaints with its performance so far. I certainly see the benifits in moving up from 1GB.

Ah-ha, I stand corrected wrt HG wells. Like I said, I very much doubt anyone will get 2-2-2-5 with 2gig, but I might be corrected later on, maybe someone on the Xtremesystems forums have done it, but I reckon it gonna take a lot of volts, extra cooling, bios mods etc, to do it.

jbloggs · 18 Mar 2006 at 21:27

I have 2 x 1GB OCZ PC3200 Platinum running at 2-3-2-5 on an Asus P4P800 E Deluxe mobo, tried it at 2-2-2-5, but would not even boot.

Also asked over on the OCZ support forum Here, but was informed that 2-2-2-5 was not possible with this Ram on my mobo, but in saying that I am quite happy with the way it is running now at 2-3-2-5, no errors in memtest86+. Have not overclocked it yet, but it is supposed not to O/C much above 220FSB.

pieman109 · 19 Mar 2006 at 00:33

jbloggs said:
I have 2 x 1GB OCZ PC3200 Platinum running at 2-3-2-5 on an Asus P4P800 E Deluxe mobo, tried it at 2-2-2-5, but would not even boot.

Also asked over on the OCZ support forum Here, but was informed that 2-2-2-5 was not possible with this Ram on my mobo, but in saying that I am quite happy with the way it is running now at 2-3-2-5, no errors in memtest86+. Have not overclocked it yet, but it is supposed not to O/C much above 220FSB.

Form what I've read, this ram will clock to about 250mhz, but with very slack timings, say, 3-4-4-8, so its probably worth running a divider and keeping the timings tight.