We will look at some different benchmarks that have to do with the PC's memory. The variables are going to be timings and speed of the memory; we will study the effects this has on benchmarks. The test PC is comprised of following:

• Intel Pentium E2140
• Abit IP35-E
• 2 GB OCZ Gold GX XTC
• MSI 8600 GT OC
• OCZ Powerstream 520 watt
• Window Vista

The initial test configuration is stock settings and speed. It's DDR2-800, having 400 MHz, with timings of 5-5-5-12. Then I tried to tighten up those timings. I was not very happy with results. The lowest I could obtain timings down to was 4-5-5-12; anything lower failed to boot into Windows without crashing and blue screening. If that wasn't discouraging enough, the top speed for this memory with these timings was 202 MHz, a gain of only 2 MHz over stock.

Then I did not feel that this memory could turn out to be something special. The last test was maximum speed with stock timings. This surprised me a little; I wasn't expecting to get much out of these, I though over 450MHz would be a bonus. I was able to get memory up to 470 MHz, or DDR2-940. This was a little more than I thought they would be able to manage. Still, nothing here is record breaking or near the top ten best sticks of RAM.