I am honest about my testing, I am honest about my results, I am not trying to pull any kind of wool over anyone's eyes, unless of course she is hot and wearing a wool sweater. My OC Report simply shows one level of stability, single 32M SuperPi. I am not trying to pretend single 32M SPi stable is Prime Blend or LinX stable...it is what it is. This is not a review with actual stability testing, this is a report on overclocking, hence the name OC Report. I choose 32M SPi as my gauge because that is all I honestly care about. Complain, ask, whine, or mumble whatever you want about my testing...I don't care. Again, unless you are a hot female. Then we can discuss your concerns in private over dinner or something.
For the last time, these modules were provided by OCZ for review purpose. As I said last time..."
Please refer to section one, paragraph four, line three, word thirteen for further details on what you can do should you feel this kit is cherry picked". OCZ has no agenda in sending out cherry picked kits of memory, I get random retail samples, nothing more and hopefully nothing less.
6-7-6-X 1T:
Intel X58 - EVGA Classified:
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897MHz :: 1.657v | 922MHz :: 1.701v | 942MHz :: 1.758v | 962MHz :: 1.802v | 987MHz :: 1.856v
Ranging from 897MHz at 1.65v up to 987MHz at 1.85v, this kit is almost a dead ringer for what the PC3-16000 OCZ Blade sticks did. I looked at those almost a month ago and at this point, you could almost accuse me of doing nothing but laying new labels done. This time I didn't forget about my RTL and worked these sticks a little more. As I said about the PC3-16000 sticks, we are off to a great start.
7-7-6-X 1T:
Intel X58 - EVGA Classified:
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1029MHz :: 1.657v | 1047MHz :: 1.701v | 1059MHz :: 1.758v | 1071MHz :: 1.802v
Opening up CAS Latency to 7, we can see the immediate jump in clocks. The quick standard test for Elpida Hyper to know whether they are going to be a solid universal kit is to see what they do at 1.65v and 7-7-6 timings. If you crack 1000MHz, you got a decent kit, if you crack 1020MHz, you got a good kit. These Blade PC3-17000 modules almost hit 1030Mhz at 1.65v so they definitely look like they are going to hold their own as the timings get looser. Unfortunately like the last OCZ Blade modules, these ones also died out at 1.75v~1.80v. No amount of wrangling with sub-timings allowed me to get them to scale up to 1.85v, but with that said, they managed to climb up to 1071MHz which is a solid 10 clocks higher than the PC3-16000 Blades did.
7-8-7-X 1T:
Intel X58 - EVGA Classified:
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1035MHz :: 1.657v | 1065MHz :: 1.701v | 1089MHz :: 1.758v | 1113MHz :: 1.802v | 1131MHz :: 1.856v
I am not trying to sound like a broken record but my whole goal with this kit was to compare them to the results the PC3-16000's put up in my last OC Report. Soooo, like those PC3-16000 Blade's, these little bastards start out at almost the same clocks as 7-7-6 but as the voltage increased, they continue to scale at 7-8-7. Topping out at 1131Mhz with 1.85v is pretty damn nice but I was hoping for a little bit more. It just goes to show that the best of the best Elpida Hyper is pretty damn close to the best of the rest of Elpida Hyper. Perhaps I have been spoiled by two killer kits so my excitement seems lacking but that is about to change as I talk about the 8-9-8 results.
8-9-8-X 1T:
Intel X58 - EVGA Classified:
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1161MHz :: 1.657v | 1179MHz :: 1.701v | 1197MHz :: 1.758v
Hahaha, what a joke, these modules won't even do single 32M at 1200MHz with 1.75v
. <- that winky face means I am joking, so just relax all of you without a sense of humor. These sticks just love 8-9-8, even more than I love pretty ladies. I started at 1100MHz at 8-9-8 and thought something was wrong when I got to 1150Mhz still at 1.65v. Needless to say everything checked out and these sticks just absolutely destroy the IMC on this Intel Xeon W3540. The W3540 has a better memory controller than my i7 920 used in my previous OC Report and it still couldn't keep up with these sticks. To go any further I am going to have to push VTT up to 1.60v+ and I won't be doing that for a bit yet as I want to make sure I get something out of this chip before I kill it.