Extreme Performance & Overclocking

Now we just figured to go one step further and check what more is possible with the Special Ops Edition series from OCZ Technology, because maybe there is more left in this memory than we might think. This will actually be done in two ways, either by overclocking the memory speed or by overclocking the Intel processor. Both should show an increase in performance, so we will check what the exact impact is for these Limited Edition memory sticks. This time we will be using SiSoftware Sandra to provide us the memory bandwidth raw power indication. We did quite some benchmarks, and start each of these at the nominal 800MHz memory clock speed.

Memory Bandwidth (PC2-6400 800MHz - E6300 1.86GHz)

Memory Bandwidth (PC2-7200 900MHz - E6300 2.10GHz)

Memory Bandwidth (PC2-7800 975MHz - E6300 2.27GHz)

We are actually taking a dual approach as we are both overclocking the OCZ Special Ops Edition memory chips as well as our Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor. Starting at the default settings of 1.86GHz for the Core 2 Duo CPU and 800MHz memory clock speed, we can see that by increasing the bus speed feeding that the bandwidth is showing a nice boost as well. This means however that we increase the bus speed which has a positive effect on the overclocking of both the CPU and DDR2 memory. We want to point out that we set the memory voltage a bit higher as well, and by doing so it reached its limit of 975MHz at 2.2V.

Our second overclocking attempt already starts a bit further. We configured our system this way that we could once again start at 800MHz memory speed but with the Core 2 Duo already overclocked to 2.24GHz. We will now repeat the same logic as above and see what that means in raw performance of the OCZ Special Ops Edition PC2-6400 dual channel memory kit. By increasing the bus speed, we will increase both the CPU and memory speed equally and find out the maximum performance of these Urban Elite memory modules.

Memory Bandwidth (PC2-6400 800MHz - E6300 2.24GHz)

Memory Bandwidth (PC2-7200 900MHz - E6300 2.52GHz)

Memory Bandwidth (PC2-7800 975MHz - E6300 2.73GHz)

Yeah these OCZ Special Ops Edition sticks keep amazing us with their top notch performance. Having increased the memory speed to 975MHz and also upped the Core 2 Duo E6300 to 2.73GHz the bandwidth boost is just unbelievable. We notice a significant gain of about 2000MB/s from our default configuration to our heavy overclocked system. These memory sticks just blew us away. And if you are really looking for high performance DDR2 memory, then you should look any further... Just check out these limited edition series from OCZ and pick up these lovely Urban Elite version to power your system!