High Speed DDR2: Buffalo and Crucial Deliver 1000+

DDR2 800 (2:3) Performance

DDR2-800 is the new standard officially supported by AM2 and the soon-to-be-released Core 2 Duo (Conroe). OCZ handles DDR2-800 at 3-3-3 timings, while Buffalo requires 3-3-4 and Crucial 4-3-4. It is important, however, that all 3 memories perform very well at DDR2-800, and these timings are all the fastest we have seen at the DDR2-800 speed. Mushkin DDR2 based on Elpida chips is the only other memory we have tested that managed 3-3-3 timings at DDR2-800. You can see the full review of the Mushkin memory in Mushkin XP2 PC2-5300 DDR2 - Xtreme Performance Memory.

OCZ EL PC2-8000 was the first memory we tested that performed at the DDR2-1067 memory speed, but all three of these DDR2-1000 rated memories managed DDR2-1067 with ease. You will find comparative DDR2-1067 performance on the next page.