Test Rig & Configuration

Now that we have a good impression of the OCZ EB PC-4000 Platinum Edition memory modules it is time to check out the performance delivered by these sticks. The system used will be our somewhat older, though still very decent and major overclockable Intel P4 based test rig supporting the DDR500 modules. The system is build around the ASUS P4P800 Deluxe which forms a stable and flexible base during our benchmark run. This is one of the best proofed systems with excellent support for DDR memory. So check out the specifications...

• Intel Pentium 4 (Prescott) 3.0GHz CPU
• ASUS P4P800 Deluxe Mainboard
• OCZ EB DDR PC-4000 2x 1024MB Platinum Edition Memory
• Gainward BLISS 7800 GS+ (G71) 512MB AGP
• 1x Maxtor Diamond Max 9 200GB IDE HDD (UDMA133)
• Plextor PX-130A DVD-ROM Drive
• Hiper Type-R HPU-4B580 (580W) Power Supply
• Cooler Master ATC-200C Case

The ASUS mainboard is based around the Intel 865PE chipset that supports officially an FSB of 800/533/400MHz. Of course ASUS is known to be a leader when it comes in overclocking and supporting more extra features out of the box. We will power the Intel 865PE chipset with the OCZ EB PC-4000 Platinum Edition memory sticks. These 184-pin DDR500 modules will run at amazing speeds in any platform you are computing with.

Here you go the sweet OCZ EB PC-4000 Platinum Edition dual channel kit installed and ready to kick some benchmarks. The ram sticks just shine in our test rig and do fit nicely with the color scheme of our system. Just notice the reflections on the mirror finish of the OCZ sticks, just awesome. I truly like the look and feel of these Platinum Edition modules and have only good words for it and high hopes on the performance.

Looking from another angle these ram sticks just look awesome and very neat. With the all the power cables it's hard to get a good angle on the ram, but I think you get the picture by now. Both sticks have mirrored shading, so we can see some components reflection on it. Due to that it is quite hard as well to get a good shot at these COZ sticks as the mirror finish does reflect any light. So that should be good news for some case modders who are using some fancy LED's and lighting in their case, the sticks will reflect a wide colored spectrum throughout the computer case.

CPU-Z 1.33.1 Information

As usual we will fire up the general purpose freeware applications we enjoy using and CPU-Z is one of them. First off this is how we configured the system. We started out with a completely default system running at a default FSB of 200MHz, which resulted in 800MHz bus speed for the Intel P4. Totally default voltage, with memory timing's set to automatic in the system BIOS. Let's pull some stats and see what we got...

When our system has started we load up CPU-Z and get the following detailed information. The initial screen will take us through the processor details of our system. Our central processing unit is an Intel P4 (Prescott) Socket 478 which is running at 3.0GHz featuring 1024KB cache. As you can spot we can select between processors and that is due to the HyperThreading feature on the Intel Prescott processor. Now that we have those details lets do a default test and see what we get...