Verdict: The most overclockable DDR2 that money can buy

More than any other manufacturer, OCZ is totally focused on producing the fastest-possible memory. This explains why OCZ was able to bombard our lab with three different PC2-8000 kits.

What separates the three OCZ PC2-8000 kits from one another are their latency timings and heatspreader designs. The EL Dual CH Platinum Extreme Edition is guaranteed to run at up to 1GHz at 4 - 5 - 4 - 15 at a heady 2.3V.

Like all of the PC2-8000 kits, this OCZ RAM could only run at 889MHz in our Core 2 test rig, and 800MHz in our Athlon 64 test rig at stock clock speeds, due to the limitations of the BIOS. Even though Core 2 systems aren't as sensitive as Athlon 64 systems to lower latency timings, the EL Dual CH Platinum Extreme Edition still edged ahead of the higher-latency PC2 8000 EL Dual CH Platinum XTC in every test.

We were able to overclock the EL Dual CH Platinum Extreme Edition to 1,080MHz by increasing its voltage to 2.45V. By dropping the latency timings to 6-6-6-18, it overclocked stably to 1.2GHz, the highest frequency achieved by any kit in this Labs test. However, while this kit is incredibly overclockable, it's also incredibly expensive.

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