X-bitlabs reviews Corsair Dominator 1800C7DF, OCZ PC3-14400 Platinum Edition, and Super Talent W1866UX2G8 DDR3 memory kits
Overclocker DDR3 SDRAM continues to become faster. For our today’s roundup we managed to collect memory kits from Corsair, OCZ and Super Talent that can work at 1800MHz and higher frequencies. Let’s take a closer look at them and find out if they will be able to win this duel against DDR2 solutions.
Many of you have already noticed that Intel has turned its face to overclocking fans a while back already. Core micro-architecture has definitely become the main breakthrough in this direction as it implies enforced limitation of processor clock speeds for the sake of their low heat dissipation. So, overclockers take advantage of this particular peculiarity: by neglecting the power consumption optimizations and adding extra cooling they manage to get Core 2 processors to run at frequencies more than 1.5 times higher than their nominal speeds. Moreover, the actual Intel CPUs overclocking procedure became primitively simple. The only obstacle on the way to unprecedented performance as a result of successful overclocking is probably the locked CPU clock frequency multiplier. As a result, overclockers often have to get their systems to run at relatively high system bus frequencies of up to 450-500MHz in order to successfully overclock not the most expensive representative of the Intel processor family...
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