OCZ Platinum 1866MHz DDR3 Memory

INTRODUCTION

OCZ Technologies Memory is one of the most preferred types of memory to have in our computers. Who would not want to have memory that performs well, and stable in our computers? Unlike the Intel 1366 socket Core i7 CPUs tring to find a set of low voltage high frequency memory was next to impossible at the starting of this newer CPU type. This time around, memory manufacturers were prepared to have high frequency, low voltage memory for the newer Intel Core i5/i7 1156 socket CPU's.

Today we are going to look at a set of Platinum 1866MHz memory from OCZ Technologies. Intels newer 1156 socket type uses only a dual channel configuration. But unlike the 1366 socket CPUs default memory speed of 1066MHz, the 1156 socket CPUs has a default memory speed of 1333MHz. What does this tell us? The 1156 socket CPUs have a higher memory divider available to us to really get our memory screaming.  

Lets walk on down into the "Dragons Lair", while I put these memory modules into my Core i5 750 CPU setup and see how far the 1866MHz Platinums will go. Now this time around, I am going to add something a bit different to try and answer the age old question, "Whats better, memory frequency or memory timings?" I am going to try and ramp these sticks of memory to their highest possible frequency, then drop the frequency and tighten the timings, while maintaining roughly the same overall CPU core speed of 3.8GHz. The results may shock ya.