GEIL Memory – An Overclocking Natural

We equipped our test systems with 2 GB of memory, with our budget set at a maximum of €65. Memory maker GEIL offers some excellent products in this price range. We finally settled on the DDR2-800 modules of the Black Dragon Edition with the designation GB22GB6400C4DC, which are sold as a 2 GB set (2 x 1 GB).

Don’t take those two red LEDs the wrong way – they aren’t meant as a warning, they’re more of a fashion statement. In our test, we were able to overclock GEIL’s modules to remarkable heights.

Although the label on the modules states an operating voltage of 2.0 Volts, we reduced the voltage to 1.95 V for our overclocking tests. Despite this reduction, our stress test tool Prime95 ran completely stably.

In our test, we were able to push the memory as high as DDR2-900 without having to change the latencies from their stock settings of CL 4.0-4-4-12 or raising the voltage above 1.95 V. Despite this high frequency, it still didn’t get warm enough to require any cooling.

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  1. 1 – E6750 or Q6600 – Which is the better choice?
  2. 2 – The Processors – E6750 or Q6600?
  3. 3 – Processor – G0 Stepping is a must
  4. 4 – Motherboard – Gigabyte or MSI with P35 chipset
  5. 5 – Highlights of the MSI Board – Affordable, Heatpipe on Board
  6. 6 – Highlights of the Gigabyte Board – More Features
  7. 7 – GEIL Memory – An Overclocking Natural
  8. 8 – Cooler - Zalman's CNPS9700LED is Ideal
  9. 9 – Looking at the Bottom Line – CPU, Cooler, Board, and RAM
  10. 10 – Overclocking I – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.00 GHz
  11. 11 – Overclocking II – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.30 GHz
  12. 12 – Overclocking III – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.40 GHz
  13. 13 – Overclocking IV – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.50 GHz
  14. 14 – Overclocking V – Dual-Core E6750 at 3.60 GHz
  15. 15 – Overclocking I – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.00 GHz
  16. 16 – Overclocking II – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.20 GHz
  17. 17 – Overclocking III – Quad-Core Q6600 at 3.30 GHz
  18. 18 – Overview of Core Voltages
  19. 19 – Power Consumption and Energy Cost – Less is more with Dual-Core
  20. 20 – Overclocking Yields 25 Percent Performance Increase
  21. 21 – Performance Winner – Q6600 Provides 5.3% More Performance
  22. 22 – Test Setup
  23. 23 – Software Configuration
  24. 24 – Benchmarks and Settings
  25. 25 – 3D-Games - UT2004, Prey
  26. 26 – 3D-Games - Quake 4, Warhammer
  27. 27 – 3D-Games - Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
  28. 28 – 3D-Rendering - Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
  29. 29 – Applications - AVG, WinRAR
  30. 30 – Applications - Photoshop, PDF
  31. 31 – Applications - Deep Fritz
  32. 32 – Audio Encoding - iTunes, Lame
  33. 33 – Synthetic - Sandra CPU
  34. 34 – Synthetic - Sandra Memory
  35. 35 – Synthetic - Sandra Multimedia
  36. 36 – Synthetic - PC-Mark
  37. 37 – Synthetic - 3D-Mark
  38. 38 – Video Encoding - Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
  39. 39 – Video Encoding - Premiere, Mainconcept
  40. 40 – Video Encoding - HDTV, DivX
  41. 41 – Video Encoding - CloneDVD
  42. 42 – Conclusion - Intel Quad-Core and MSI P35 Neo2 get our Nod
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