Gaming tests. Overclocking/versatility
Gaming also shows that extreme bandwidth provides just a touch more performance than the best DDR2-667 memory around. It's a crying shame that Pentium Extreme Edition processors' cores have to share a single FSB to the system. If each had its own FSB to chew on, 1GHz-rated DDR2 would provide a tangible difference in performance.
Overclocking/versatility
To test just how well the XTC8000 pack responded to differing latencies, we ran the modules at 2.2V (within OCZ' EVP guarantee) and chose timings of 3-3-3-9 (tight), 4-4-4-12 (medium), and 5-5-5-15 (loose).
Almost 800MHz means that it could be considered a low-latency ~PC6400 part. However, the SDRAMs have been tuned to perform best at around 1GHz. Loosening the timings to 4-4-4-12 allowed us to run past the modules' 1000MHz speed but loosening them further to 5-5-5-15 didn't quite allow us to push on to PC1066 speeds. This pack is best-described as clock-it-up-high RAM. We can also see, from the results obtained by our sample, why OCZ hasn't yet felt confident enough in releasing a PC1066 part based on these particular modules. A little more tweaking in the labs is need, perhaps?
