...Best Overclock

Now are we going to take the MVKTech rig and put the hammer down. First we are going to hit up the system BIOS, set this aging platform and ramp this system up as fast as she will go, now we suspect with a TEC system we are going to get above average over-clock, we shall see what happens when we run the OCZ under our configuration.

At this point we are going to just start out at default and push the HTT up until the system chokes, so doing 10MHz intervals I will run the system up as fast as it will go without having to adjust anything but the ram voltage and cpu voltage which will be set at 3.0 volts DDR and 2.6 volts CPU. Now let's see what she will do...

Believe it or not the 3-3-2-7 timings worked all the way up to a HTT of 258MHz. In order to get to the 260MHz we have to drop the memory to3-4-4-8. Which is utterly amazing to say the least. Our CPU barely cracked the 8°C ~ 9°C using the Swiftech TEC. Which we admit is the reason we are getting such good over-clock but at the same rate, this ram opened up the head room in order to get these numbers. I pumped up the ram to 3.0 volts and juiced the AMD Athlon Winchester to 1.600 volts and took about 20 minutes to ramp up to an HTT of 260MHz! Holy Bajeezus!

We have reached our hardware limitation which is most likely our CPU chocking at this speed, I don’t even think phase change will make a difference, but this is one mean over-clock, the only problem is Windows is unstable.

We can't play games under this configuration, while we can get off some 2D applications, that’s about it. This system sometimes boots to this configuration and other times it won't, so while we can brag and say this is a sick over-clock, the system is on the threshold of crashing, and so it's not going to do us very much good is it? However it demonstrates quite well the headroom we gained using this ram.

So what works for us? Well at a HTT of 250MHz we were able to play some Battlefield 2 and surprisingly stable for that matter. But in the end this ram is able to over clock like mad and has complete stability at 1:1 with a 250MHz HTT which is pretty amazing. We did reach a maximum over clock of 260MHz HTT which is a first for us, I don't think we can get that stable enough to test, so does it count? Well you decide, we just wanted to see best over-clocking and well here it is!

So for that we have to give our hats off to OCZ, because it opened up our system and maximized our performance considerably and allowed us to run games and applications at a 250MHz HTT. This is awesome and I think it's safe to say that even the larger capacity modules can be as fast as there smaller counterparts thanks to OCZ technology.