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Date: June 8, 2006
Author(s): Rob Williams
Editor: Mark Ozimek

Are you into combat games? Of course you are. Battlefield II, Call of Duty II... they are all over. OCZ has just released a new kit with their XTC spreader dressed up in some camouflaged. Because these are value modules, overclocking is a gamble. Let's see if these are as fast as they are stylish.

Testing Procedure, Sandra

So now that we got the non-overclock ability out of the way, let's see if it's stock performance keeps up to par with others on the market.

To test out the modules, I used the usual variety of benchmarking tools:

• Futuremark 3D Mark 2006
• Futuremark PC Mark 2005
• Lavalys EVEREST 2005
• SiSoftware SANDRA 2007
• Super Pi 1.5 Mod

SANDRA is by far one of the most popular memory benchmarking tools out there, and for good reason. The reason I personally like it, is because you have the option of tweaking countless settings in order to benchmark to your liking. I run benchmarks using default settings in addition to unbuffered.

I am impressed with the stock speeds, to say the least. It beats out some other PC2-6400 2GB kits I have on hand, by around 50 points. Good stuff.

The same goes for here... very nice stock speeds.