As memory works in each board that supports that kind of memory, OCZ VX looks to play with NF3 and NF4. I am not saying they suck on Intel boards; it's just that Intel's chipset’s memory controller is not on similar page as NVIDIA chipsets. The big problem is not the chip set; it is obtaining enough volts to make them fly. You will find many various reviews of this memory on AMD motherboards, but not so many on Intel systems, so I will throw this memory into my Pentium 4 PC. OCZ says that you can still obtain good clocks on Intel PCs; tests will tell the tale.

Now it's time to get some competition for VX. What I want is some memory that everybody knows, that can take high volts and has low latency. How about some BH-5? Until just it was be-all end-all for DDR memory. I thought this would be a great benchmark; could VX knock the BH-5 off the throne as king DDR?

The BH-5 is not a fine overclocker. It can only obtain up to 225 MHz. I have two 512 MB sticks, which tend not to overclock with 256MB sticks. There are people that have 512MB sticks that are capable of speeds same to those completed by VX, however getting a Bh-5 that can do that might be harder.

The VX was simply able of these speeds and then some; you can get out how fast I could obtain VX. I ran RAM at speeds that BH-5 could take; it would have been unfair to run VX higher. All stock tests were run with a 1:1 divider, meaning the memory is running at similar speed as Front Side Bus, 200 MHz. I also ran similar tests with a slight overclock; FSB then was 225 MHz.

This is the system I utilized for testing:

• Abit AI7
• Pentium 4 2.6c
• NVIDIA 6800
• Samsung 120 GB SATA HD
• Kingston Hyper X BH-5
• OCZ VX PC3200

The positive side to Ai7 is that, right out of the box, you can pump 3.2 volts into memory before any kind of modding is wanted. The VX likes and wants high volts, so this was a match made in Intel heaven. If you are looking at this RAM, and you do not have volts, you can obtain DDR Booster made by OCZ; just test motherboard's compatibility.