OCZ PC3500 Platinum: A Return to the Fastest Timings

Test Results

To test overclocked stability, we used the very demanding Gun Metal 2 — Benchmark 2, which pushes systems with its DX9 routines. To be considered stable for test purposes, Gun Metal, our Quake3 benchmark, UT2003 Demo, and Super PI had to complete without incident. Any of these 4, and in particular Super PI and Gun Metal, will crash a less than stable memory configuration. In addition to game benchmarks and Super Pi, Sandra 2004 Unbuffered and Buffered was used to compare memory performance.

OCZ PC3500 Platinum — 2 x 512Mb Double-Bank
Speed	Memory Timings & Voltage	Quake3 fps	UT2003 fps	Sandra UNBuffered	Sandra Standard Buffered	Super PI 2M places (time in sec)
400DDR 800FSB	2-2-2-5 2.55V	331.3	Fly: 202.49 Bot: 71.27	INT 3124 FLT 3143	INT 4902 FLT 4899	127
433DDR 866FSB	2-2-2-5 2.75V	355.4	Fly: 218.00 Bot: 77.03	INT 3207 FLT 3230	INT 5220 FLT 5210	120
466DDR 933FSB	2-2-3-8 2.85V	375.0	Fly: 229.78 Bot: 82.22	INT 3304 FLT 3321	INT 5618 FLT 5606	112

The OCZ PC3500 Platinum performed better than its rated 2-2-3-6 specification. At DDR400, like Mushkin PC3500 Level II, it allowed the fastest timings we have seen with any high-speed memory. While we could boot at speeds as high as DDR476, DDR466 was the highest stable overclock that we could achieve with the PC3500 Platinum. At that speed, the system was completely stable and there were no problems with any application we tried to run on the computer.