OCZ PC4000 VX Gold – extreme performance

A couple of weeks ago we reported on that OCZ Technology launched a new model in their VX-series (eXtended Voltage), namely their OCZ PC4000 VX Gold.
What really caught our attention was the specified timings at 2-2-2 at its stock speed at DDR500. This was the first time we’ve seen a DDR1-memory specified with such aggressive timings at DDR500-frequencies.
At Anandtech.com they’ve taken a closer look at these modules and the results are quite impressive and even surprising in some aspects.

When you get past the hinder of high voltage, the VX-modules requires really high voltage (3.0v-3.7v) to perform at optimum, it’s more or less a straight path to heaven according to Anandtech.

“In the end, OCZ VX Gold is the best performing memory that we have tested on the Athlon 64 platform. At the same speed and same timings, it significantly outperforms any other memory that we have tested on A64. VX does not run at the fastest memory speeds that we have found in our benchmarks – quite a few memories based on Samsung TCCD or Hynix memory chips reach significantly higher speeds than the DDR538 of OCZ VX Gold. However, at DDR534 2-2-2-6 timings, no memory that we have tested outperforms VX. VX is so fast that 533 actually outperforms memory that have achieved DDR600 or more in our memory tests.”

This is the first time we’ve seen really noticeable differences in performance between different memory modules at seemingly identical conditions, which has to be considered quite interesting. That the difference in performance are clearly noticeable doesn’t really make things worse.

The entire review on OCZ PC4000 VX Gold can be found at Anandtech.com.