October 11, 2004

OCZ PowerStream 420W PSU @ Viperlair

“The OCZ PowerStream has hit the mark, and then some. Not only is this power supply of the highest quality, it is quiet and sexy. OCZ has hit a homer with the PowerStream line, it would have been a Grand Slam had they wrapped up all of their power leads, but that is only a small issue and you can wrap them yourself to get the colors you desire.”

Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 Enhanced Memory @ OCC

“Being able to retain its factory tight 2-2-2-5 timings at 211MHz and then capable of hitting a whopping 254MHz with them loosened up speaks volumes. I believe the low latency DDR400 memory products is the place to be. You get phenomenal performance at DDR400 speed and by loosening up the timings, bl-ingo you have DDR500. Pricing is right in line with the other products in this category. While $320 is nothing to sneeze at you do get what you pay for and in this case, then some.”



Corsair TWIN2X1024-5400C4PRO @ OCModShop

“Corsair has long been known as one of, if not the best memory for overclocking. I left the timings at 4-4-4-12 and started increasing the FSB while adding more voltage to the CPU, memory, and northbridge as needed. My final result was a FSB of 270 taking my 2.8GHz Pentium 4 to 3784MHz! To achieve this overclock I flashed the BIOS to version 15 and set the DDR voltage to 1.9v, northbridge to 1.65v, and CPU to 1.5875v. I did not lock the PCI-Express bus but did lock the PCI to 33.33MHz. I could tell that the memory had a lot more in it but my processor seemed to be maxed out which is understanding since it was running almost 1000MHz faster than normal.”

Recovered from an Internet Archive snapshot of the InsaneTek front page.