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Let's take a closer
look at the Reaper. The Reaper's HPC Heatsink appears to be made out of
aluminum for the fins and copper for the heat pipe. OCZ's boasts that
this nearly doubles the cooling area of the heatsink.
OCZ has a pretty
impressive design here. I really love the saw tooth look and the jet
black finish really sets it off.
Test System
For testing, I try to use hardware that isn't quite the best or
the fastest, but something more along the lines of something the average
person would put together for a nice gaming system for a reasonable
amount of money. However, the EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard is
probably one of the fastest, if not the fastest Socket 775 C2D
motherboard around. Here's a rundown of the test system:
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Hardware |
Model |
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Motherboard: |
EVGA nForce 680i SLI |
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Motherboard BIOS Version: |
NF68P25 |
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Platform Drivers: |
nForce
680i v9.53 |
| CPU |
Intel
C2D E6700 |
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Memory |
OCZ Reaper HPC
XP2-8500 5-5-5-15
2Gb Kit |
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Video Cards |
2x EVGA GeForce 7600GT
Running in SLI |
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Video Card Drivers |
NVIDIA Forceware v93.71 |
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Hard Drive |
4x 250Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
SATA Hard Drives
PN: ST3250620AS |
Testing
Memory tests will be done using
SiSoft
Sandra Pro Business version 2007.1.11.17. ClubOC has been using
SiSoft Sandra for many years now and it's pretty much the only
benchmarking program we trust for testing memory and processors.
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800MHz Memory Only
For this test we will be
enabling the SLI-Ready Memory setting with the CPUOC
(CPU Overclock) setting to
0%.
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Motherboard Settings |
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SLI/EPP Memory Setting: |
Disabled |
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CPU/Memory Link: |
Unlinked |
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Memory Bus Speed: |
800MHz |
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Memory Voltage: |
2.3v |
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Memory Timings: |
5-5-5-15
(default) |
| CPU
Bus Speed: |
1066MHz (default) |
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Final CPU Clock Speed: |
2.66GHz (default) |
Sandra scores are shown in red: 7493/7500.
The
first benchmark was at 800MHz, which is below the rated speed of the
PC2 8500 memory. The only reason we run 800MHz benchmarks on 1066MHz
memory is because some people may purchase overclocking RAM for their
"overclocking challenged" system with plans to upgrade in the future. Next we run the memory up to it's rated speed of
1066MHz.
1066MHz CPU & Memory
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Motherboard Settings |
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SLI/EPP Memory Setting: |
Enabled at 0% |
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CPU/Memory Link: |
Linked |
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Memory Bus Speed: |
1066MHz |
|
Memory Voltage: |
2.3v |
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Memory Timings: |
5-5-5-15
(default) |
| CPU
Bus Speed: |
1066MHz (default) |
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Final CPU Clock Speed: |
2.66GHz (default) |
Sandra scores are shown in red: 7645/7644.
At
1066MHz the PC2 8500 performs like a champ. It even outscored some of
our other PC2-8500 that has tighter CL timings.
So
just how high can we overclock OCZ's Reaper memory? Move on to the next
page and find out!
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