OCZ PC2-8500 Reaper HPC Kit

During the real world results the OCZ Reaper PC2-1066 kit gaming performance felt smoother to me. Overclockers will appreciate and utilize the extra headroom DDR2-1066 provides. While using some dividers however I ran into stability issues and in some cases had to drop to a setting below DDR2-1000 just to get that overclock stable. Nothing to do with the memory as the ram was memtest stable past 1066Mhz, the memory controller favors some dividers over others I have found with the Intel C2D chips. With the way memory prices the way they are, you can't go wrong with this memory kit. If you are in the market for a new kit of DDR2, OCZ's PC2-8500 4GB kit is the way to go!!

"The superlative results reflected in the bennchmarking and gaming tests above from the OCZ Reaper HPC 8500 DDR-2 memory are amongst the best I've ever experienced using DDR-2 8500. Some of the individual results in the stock speed tests may have been bettered slightly by other brands of memory but only because they were running at lower latencies. The achieved memory speed of 1200MHz using a 1:2 memory ratio is by far the best we've ever seen from any memory product in the DDR-2 8500 class."

Overall, the OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Reaper HPC 4GB Edition is a good choice of RAM for those who want to use 4GB of memory at 1066MHz without spending too much money.

The OCZ Reaper HPC isn't shy about its 2.3V operating voltage and for all intents and purposes features the same 1066MHz speeds and loose CL5 rating as other DDR2-1066 memory. However, OCZ isn't just selling another alternate-cooled DDR2-1066 memory to whet the appetites of enthusiasts. The Reaper HPC is actually able to deliver better performance with the same settings. If our benchmarks are to be any gauge, gamers are not the only target group for faster memory. Professional and productivity suites that are increasingly resource demanding are the applications that stand to gain a lot more from higher memory subsystem bandwidth today.

"The OCZ Reaper HPC put forth a good showing with consistantly high benchmark results. The benefit of performance memory, like the Reaper HPC, could clearly be seen when compared to "standard" memory running at JEDEC's DDR2-800 standards. Although the performance benefit was sometimes very small, the Reapers aren't at fault. Overall, both of our Reaper kits performed as expected and on par with other high-performance memory kits we've seen."