Benchmarks

Please note that in all diagrams shown on this page, there are entries for 200 MHz and timings 2-3-3-6. These measurements were taken by using OEM DDR-3200 memory modules in order to show the difference the enhanced latency feature of the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 offers at 200 MHz.

As we can see, the best read performance comes with FSB 275 MHz, while the best write comes with FSB 265 MHz. The FSB 270 MHz is very close and should be used for a stable system, while the timings are (2.5-4-4-7). A significant performance gain is apparent at the default frequency of 200 MHz, where the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 really shines. It's read performance is at good levels (outmatched only over 235MHz and 2-3-3-5 timings), and its write performance is exceptional, coming only second next to the performance measured at 265 MHz with timings at 2.5-3-3-7.

No need to say also, that without any overclocking at all, the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 shows exceptional performance over other types of memory that do not offer such low latencies.

From both Sisoft Sandra and PCmark04 results, we can conclude that the higher the FSB goes, the higher the performance of the memory. Timings of course make some difference, sometimes it might be better to stay a few MHz lower just to get tighter timings for the memory.

Also bear in mind that while OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 is rated as DDR400, we managed to overclock it up to DDR550 specs, and without any extra cooling. To be exact, we got up to DDR570, but while the system was POSTing ok, Memtest86+ was running ok, the system would crash at the Windows loadup screen. Maybe with extra cooling, we could have had even better results. Also, if we could increase the voltage supplied to the memory, we could squeeze even more performance. Our test motherboard's maximum setting is 2.85Volts, which might not have been enough. Nevertheless, the overclocking potential of this memory is fantastic.