Shootouts

Low Voltage DDR3 1600MHz Memory Shootout - Joining the Eco Club

By Vincent Chang - 1 Dec 2010

Overclocking

Overclocking

Given the less than impressive power consumption figures, how about overclocking? We ramped up the frequencies by pushing the base clock on the motherboard and found that OCZ's Reaper lived up to its pedigree, with almost a final frequency of almost 1900MHz. Kingmax's Hercules was a distant second, with the G.SKILL and Kingston LoVo memory modules finishing bottom with similar overclocks. 

Compared to the reference Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600MHz memory module that hit 2148MHz, these low voltage memory modules didn't seem that good for overclocking. Note that even after raising voltage, these new eco-friendly sticks couldn't go any further than what we've reported in the graph below. We believe that most enthusiasts would prefer the memory with the better overclocking tolerance.

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