Xtreme DDR 256MB PC 3200 SDRAM

• 6 Colors: Silver, Blue, Gold, Green, Red, Purple
• Color Aluminum Heat Spreader
• 256MB Single Sided Module
• Samsung B3 -6ns Chip
• Lifetime Warranty
• 3-6-3 2T Timings
• 400 MHz
• Unbuffered
• CL 2.0

Samsung chips are renowned for their excellent overclockability and stability, so we could expect some good action with these modules at hand.

All Xtreme DDR modules are offered with heat spreaders attached. The heat spreaders come in 6 different flavors of Silver, Blue, Gold, Green, Red, and Purple. Mind you, these modules get considerably hot during operation and not having them would convert to poor overclocking results. The memory modules are designed on a 6 layer PCB design. Basically having more layers provides better stability and a much cleaner signal. Take care not to opt for 4 layer PCB designs even though you might find great deals on these types of memory on the net. It’s well worth the extra cost by going for quality.

As mentioned in the specs, the memory chips are Samsung B3 6ns chips. The module is single sided (All memory chips are on one side), which have been proven to be better overclockers than double sided ones. We could not get a closer look at the memory chips due to the heat spreaders; nevertheless we can soon verify all these performance issues through our tests.

Benchmarks

Test setup

Default Setting : 133Mhz, CAS 2.0 2T Command
System Performance setting: Normal

Overclocked Setting : 150Mhz, CAS 2 System Performance setting: Fast
DRAM Command Rate: 1T

Overclocked Setting : 160Mhz, CAS 2 System Performance setting: Fast
DRAM Command Rate: 1T

At this setting going at aggressive settings resulted in system instability issues. Therefore we went back to less aggressive settings, which worked fine.

We also managed to reach 210 MHz, however couldn’t keep the system stable enough to do any benchmarks on it. However standard gaming and similar applications ran without a hitch, which by me is good enough.