You not often obtain more than RAM when you purchase RAM. With this RAM, though, you obtain OCZ's lifetime warranty. You can over clock it to record speeds and they will remain under warranty. The only constraint is that you can only permit so much voltage to RAM before your warranty becomes void in this case; the magic number is 2.1 volts + 5%. I have to deal with OCZ and they are greatest company.

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Specifications

• 800MHz DDR2
• CL 5-5-5-12 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS)
• Available in a 512MB and 1GB module
• Unbuffered
• Gold Layered XTC Heatspreader*
• Lifetime Warranty
• 2.1 Volts
• 240 Pin DIMM

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I feel we want to take a good look at the heat spreaders on this memory. This is something we haven't seen before. Until now all RAM we are analyses has a solid heat sink; now it is open with many holes for air circulation. This is what OCZ has to say about it:

"XTC stands for Xtreme Thermal Convection. The heat spreaders modify thermal management of memory modules by helping larger airflow of micro-convection during what is generally dead air space inside usual heat spreader designs. In this way, build-up of heat is avoided and thermal dissipation of memory elements is offloaded more capably through honeycomb design. At similar time, mechanical stability is maintained."

I feel this is a good idea. Remembering earlier RAM, I did not think that heat sink did much. There was a thick pad between heat sink and memory chips and I didn't think it was very capable. I feel this will work much better.

Ensure that before you obtain this RAM that motherboard will support these out of the box or that you have another stick of RAM that will boot in your motherboard. The Abit IP35-E boots up with 1.8 Volts and the memory needs 2.1 volts to run properly. This creates a small problem. I was able to put one stick of RAM into slot 3; it booted up into the BIOS and I was able to bump up the voltage some. All was great after that.