Manufacturer: OCZ Technology
Price: $273-499USD (ZipZoomFly - Newegg) The price flucuates vastly on this kit.

The time has finally come where I have an excuse to play with DDRII memory. The release of AMDs AM2 platform with DDRII support has been the final push that memory makers were looking for much like myself. DDR memory is officially the past and going forward DDRII will rein king. The evolution of DDR memory to the higher frequencies of DDRII has not been a smooth one with early performance complaints of DDRII due to the high latencies associated with the memory when running on an Intel platform. That all changes with AM2 having on-die memory controllers and memory manufacturers producing DDRII ICs that a short while ago would have defied logic with their ability to run with such tight latencies.



As usual OCZ has been working hard to put together some of the best DDRII memory modules our hard earned money can buy and is leading the way in DDRII much like they did with DDR. The never-ending search for faster memory, more bandwidth, and tighter timings has produced some amazing modules of late and today I will get the immense pleasure of working out such a kit.



The OCZ DDR2 PC2-7200 Platinum XTC SLI-Ready EPP dual channel kit sure has a long name and just enough acronyms within that name to earn you a double and triple word score. There are not too many kits specified to run at the PC-7200 frequency of DDR900 and certainly not at the incredible timings of 4-4-3-15. Requiring 2.1v to achieve such speed and latencies, this memory kit is covered by OCZs EVP coverage up to 2.2v +/- %5. Something tells me we won't be stopping at 2.3v though, I see big things for this particular kit of memory, time and voltage will only tell.