Tweaking
As you might be able to tell from the number of different benchmark results for the OCZ PC4000 Platinum Edition, I had a lot of fun tweaking the heck out of this memory. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it performed, especially considering that it significantly outperformed its rating.
When trying to tweak memory, you should keep in mind the maximum safe voltage you can power it at, and you should carefully test each setting you try to make certain that you are not running the system so far above spec that you will experience data corruption.
In the case of this memory, the limit appeared to be 265MHz (DDR 530) which is 6% over spec; however it was possible to shave back a bit on memory latencies as well, leading to good results. For yucks, I also benchmarked it at 290MHz with a 5:6 memory divider (to keep the memory clock around 265MHz).
Conclusion
The Enhanced Bandwidth OCZ PC 4000 Platinum edition dual channel memory kit lives up to its specifications, and in fact surpasses them. You can definitely get a noticable boost in performance compared to running generic memory at SPD timings, and it also pleasantly surprised us by being able to run at 265MHz (DDR 530) with more agressive timings.
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