OCZ 2x1GB DDR3 PC3-12800 Platinum EB Review

3D/Gaming Benchmarks:

Gaming benchmarks generally show very little impact from memory adjustments from past experience. With that said, we will still take a quick look at the benchmark results from the full Futuremark 3D series as well as a couple games.


In all four 3DMark benches, the DDR3 setup outperforms the DDR2-1200 system but like in all other benchmarks, the margin of victory is thinner than Calista Flockhart with the flu. In all benchmarks we have looked at today, any and all differences between the two setups with the CPU at 3200MHz could simply be from the fact that we are running two separate motherboards. The 3D results are no different including in Half-Life 2.


As mentioned, the trend continued with the gaming benchmarks that has be present throughout testing today. The retail version of Crysis also happened to make its way into this review by an afternoon but as we can see from the results, even at 1024x768 with all detail levels on low, the 8600GTS 512MB is still a bottleneck...what a beast of a game. That about wraps up all of the evidence presentation in this case, stick around a couple more minutes for the judgment.