Overclocking Tests

     Now comes my favorite part, OVERCLOCKING! Call the Fire Department because things are about to heat up...

1200MHz Memory Only

     On this overclock test we overclock the memory at 1200MHz only while leaving the CPU at 1066MHz. We should see a nice performance increase in our memory benchmark if the Reaper will hold stable.

Sandra scores are shown in red: 7592/7587.

     I was able to hit 1200MHz without a problem and I didn't even have to increase the voltage. Very nice...

1200MHz CPU & Memory

     Next let's try overclocking the CPU and memory at 1200MHz. This gives us a final CPU clock speed of 3GHz and should give us an overall performance increase.

Sandra scores are shown in red: 8508/8506.

     This time we see a huge increase in memory performance due to a faster CPU clock speed. Can the Reaper keep it up? Let's try 1300MHz next...

1300MHz or more???

     1300MHz at default voltage was a go, unfortunately the memory would not run stable through the benchmarks. I increased the memory voltage to 2.4v and tried again. This time success!

Sandra scores are shown in red: 9108/9108.

     9108!!!!!! Impressive... Next I tried reaching for 1350, 1400, and 1450MHz. I was able to boot into Windows at 1400MHz, but the system was just too unstable over 1300MHz to recommend to our readers. Regardless, 1300MHz out of 1066MHz memory is very impressive.

     To recap we have a chart showing the memory benchmark scores at 800/1066, 1066/1066/ 1200/1066/ 1200/1200, and 1300/1300MHz.

Conclusion

     OCZ has another big winner on their hands. The Reaper HPC is some of the best overclocking memory I've seen in a while. While the loose timings of 5-5-5-15 are not all that impressive, the benchmark scores are. I'll admit that at first I was a little skeptical about adding heat pipe technology to memory. Experience tells me that heatspreaders or special cooling make very little difference, however in this case it makes just enough difference so that I was able to push the 680i motherboard just a little bit further than previous PC2-8500. Regardless, the Reaper HPC memory looks awesome and priced right. ClubOC Recommended!