RAM Timings

Steve09 · 1 Jan 2007 at 23:48

Both sets of RAM are OCZ Platinum, except one of them is the Spec Ops edition.

Which are the better timings...

OCZ Platinum of 2-3-2-5 (£150 delivered)

or

OCZ Spec Ops edition of 2.5-3-3-8 (£180 delivered)

Thanks, Steve

Macabre · 1 Jan 2007 at 23:55

Ya same, the RAM for the Spec-Ops one I might buy too.

WJA96 · 2 Jan 2007 at 10:34

At stock settings the straight platinum is faster. Both are supposed to overclock well, but only the spec ops version is painted camouflage and comes in a special edition package. If that paint-job is worth £30 to you then you know what you have to do. If you've got a fata1ity CPU cooler and case then this should be right up your street. Or maybe not.....

Steve09 · 2 Jan 2007 at 12:33

Thanks mate, looks like it will be platinum

El Jimben · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:01

WJA96 said:
At stock settings the straight platinum is faster. Both are supposed to overclock well, but only the spec ops version is painted camouflage and comes in a special edition package. If that paint-job is worth £30 to you then you know what you have to do. If you've got a fata1ity CPU cooler and case then this should be right up your street. Or maybe not.....

£30 more for an inferior product with a snazzy paint job, nice!

WJA96 · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:11

El Jimben said:
£30 more for an inferior product with a snazzy paint job, nice!

It's the cornerstone of most car companies marketing strategies

steve258 · 2 Jan 2007 at 15:33

No that Platinum generally don't go over 230Mhz even with loosed timings and increased voltage. It really is only good for stock with low latencies

The special op edition "maybe" more ocable depends on the ICs you get; if you're lucky you'll get samsung UCCCs which ocs well, if not you'll get less ocable infeneon ones.