Initial Performance Results (Cont.)

Now we will grab some sample information from Everest Ultimate Edition and get some feedback on the ram's performance. Lavalys was nice enough to allow us to evaluate their software for our reviews. We really like the wealth of information this utility gives us and we thank Lavalys for their support. On top of that it will allow us to show you some extra performance figures to give you a second opinion about the raw power of the OCZ Special Ops Edition Urban Elite memory series. It is always good to have a second angle on the performance and to confirm the behavior of the memory sticks.

Again we are using a totally default configuration for the out of the box experience. No tweaking or overclocking will be done during these tests; we want to know what's up with these modules at bone stock! After we tested with RMMA, we rebooted the system to refresh the resources and just because we wanted too, so that we can get the optimum performance without tweaking the system. Afterwards we will check it further by adapting the memory timings as advertised by OCZ. So let's check it out.

Memory Read Results

Firing up Everest, with the default setting of the OCZ memory sticks and we start the first benchmark listed, which is all about the Memory Read performance. The OCZ Special Ops Urban Elite dual channel memory pulls of some great scores indeed. Meaning once again that the memory runs at default 800MHz and with the timings set by the SPD chip. The Special Ops Edition ram kicked out a 6852MB/s score on a synthetic measurement. This makes this ram an outstanding 2GB kit with some room for improvement when applying the advised latency listed by OCZ.

Memory Write Results

The Write results are a little different, here we see 4822MB/s of throughput, but this is still some nice score of the Special Ops Edition memory. These scores might seem a bit lower then you are used to see but that is normal as this memory is rated at DDR2-800 with 4-4-3-15 timings and we are running these at the listed speeds, but with more relaxed 5-5-5-15 timings. Of course we will check the same with more adapted memory latencies, as advertised by OCZ on the Urban Elite package.

Memory Copy Results

Coming next with the benchmark suite are the Memory Copy results, also here the OCZ Special Ops Edition modules prove that they are of high performance with a score of 5100MB/s. This should certainly improve when applying better memory timings. But all in all not a bad result at all, and certainly not when comparing to other systems. The Special Ops Edition from OCZ does quite well, and certainly proves they are up for the battle. Special ram to please the hardcore gamer, with outstanding performance what more do you want?

Memory Latency Results

The latency results are a bit of scale but that is to be expected with the 5-5-5-15 configuration. So a bit disappointing score of only 68.9ns again linked somehow to the rated speed and the non adapted memory timings used. We should see some better results once these have been reset to DDR2-800 appropriate values. Although we can already state that the DDR2 memory does a better job than the older DDR version. So by all means, the DDR2 modules are the way to go!

All in all the OCZ Special Ops Edition Urban Elite does perform quite well considering that they are set at timings that are not really appropriate for an 800MHz operation speed. Anyway the performance it better then any DDR kit ever did, so that really proves that the future lies with DDR2 when it comes to high-end Intel and AMD based computer systems. However we will check how these will perform when we actually set the best memory timings for delivering world class DDR2-800 performance.