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OCZ Reaper HPC Edition Goes at 1150 MHzSolitaire should run a lot faster now |
By Dan Frincu, Hardware Editor
4th of April 2007, 08:55 GMT
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As a company that has a lot of background experience in their past, OCZ Technology is known for its very fast and reliable memory modules. The company is a proud member of the JEDEC
council, and among its modules, it also produces power supplies, flash memory products and even graphic cards. All is well when ends well, or at least that's the saying, but OCZ is far from ending its career in the computer industry, and to prove that, they have announced a new 2x1024 MB dual-channel memory kit that runs at 1150 MHz.
The memory kit is part of their high performance products, and also has some interesting features besides the cool name and lightning fast speed at which it runs. They have integrated a rather unique heatsink called the Reaper HPC (Heat Pipe Conduit). It is formed out of a package that takes heat away from the memory chips and transposes it through a heat-pipe to a secondary heatsink module placed on top. Among other interesting features of the product, we encounter the CL 5-5-5 low latencies the modules are capable of sustaining at the DDR2-1150 (PC-9200) frequency they run at.
Dr. Michael Schuette, VP of Technology Development at OCZ Technology said: "With ultra-high speed memory comes the need for extreme cooling solutions that can be extremely costly or else rely on smart features borrowed from other cooling areas. The Reaper HPC series is the first implementation of heat-pipe technology on memory modules using phase change technology for smart management of the thermal dissipation of one of the world's fastest memory modules, namely the PC2-9200 Reaper."
Although it's nice to look at the memory modules with our mouths wide open and eyes gazing at the wonders of technology, but let me make one thing clear, these modules, even as powerful as they are, don't respect the JEDEC standards for DDR2 memory modules. This is done out of two reasons, the council didn't specify the 1150 MHz frequency of being part of what their specifications for DDR2 stated, and the voltage of the modules should be 1.8V, give or take 0.1V. These modules on the other hand have a 2.3V power requirement, and, through OCZ's Extended Voltage Protection (EVP) it allows the user to overvolt the memories up to 2.35V without voiding the lifetime warranty they offer.
It's a little bit of a magic act, in order for DDR2 memories to achieve such operating frequencies, they require overclocking and overvolting, so it's easier to add a big chunky heatsink, with a thermo-conductive copper heat-pipe conduit. That's also the reason we now find water-cooled memory kits; keeping them cool is quite the challenge, and unless you want to put your PC in a refrigerator, next to the beer, some kind of advanced cooling system is required.
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