“Whether it was in benchmarks, gaming, or every day use, the Kingston PC2-9600 DDR2 kit performed well. Getting up and running at 1200MHz was easier than I expected, and the only effort required was to bump the speed up in the BIOS. Even overclocking was easy, and the test system was able to push these modules to 1280MHz by simply relaxing the tRAS value from 15 to 16.”Here are some more Memory articles from around the web:
Memory
- Kingston Hyper X PC3-13000 2GB Memory Kit Review @ HardwareLogic
- 4GB DDR2-800 Red from Crucial – More than a pretty red-head? @ BCCHardware
- OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Reaper HPC 4GB Edition @ Bjorn3D
- Nexus HXR-5500 @ BurnOutPC
- Adata DDR2-800 X-Series Overclocking Memory @ CPU3D
- OCZ PC3-10666 ReaperX 4GB Memory Kit @ 3dGameMan
- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2Gig PC2-8500 1066Mhz DDR2 Memory Kit Review @ Tweaknews
Getting close to beating low latency DDR3
Kingston’s PC2-9600 DDR2 (1200MHz) kit runs 5-5-5-15 timings at 2.3V and is just begging to be pushed farther. Big Bruin had no troubles using this RAM to push an E6850 to 400Mhz with a FSB:DRAM ratio of 5:8. Considering how cheap these modules are, if you even suspect your RAM is holding back a better overclock, you might want to invest in this kit.
