In theory this method should cool the memory modules much more efficiently than the flat heatspreaders most other memory modules sport. The Reaper HPC currently comes in four flavors and we've summerized the juicy details in a table for your convenience. Show comments Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. More Results. As an Amazon Associate, HotHardware earns a commission from qualifying purchases made on this site.
This site is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Although the OCZ Reaper X series caters to enthusiasts, EPP eliminates the need for manual configuration and makes the benefits of overclocking available to the complete range of consumers looking to get the most out of their systems. Each memory chip is in direct contact with a thermo-conductive pipe that guides the performance robbing heat away from key memory components and quickly dissipates it through the aluminum fin array.
The addition of the extended fin array nearly doubles the total surface area available for heat dissipation while the heat pipes warrant near isothermicity throughout the entire design. The result is a doubling in effective heat dissipation at equal delta t or, in real systems, a significantly lower operating temperature of the memory modules.
The memory modules come packaged in a plastic shell. As you'd expect of a memory kit from OCZ, the ReaperX PC modules have had every ounce of performance squeezed out of them at their stock speed of mhz by running very tight timings of OCZ have added a footnote that these timings are only achievable on the Nvidia i platform which provides support for EPP.
However, I'm sure with a bit of tweaking, Intel chipset users will be able to run at these timings too. OCZ have also given overclockers a bit of extra headroom when overclocking the ReaperX kit by allowing them to over-volt the modules from their stock voltage of 2. While a bump of 0. The images above certainly don't do the ReaperX kit any justice, so let's move on to the next page where we take a look at the kit in the flesh Quality review mate..
They just look so damn good and preform just as well.. Is it just me or does the percentage at the end not show up?? Oh yeah one more thing The heatpipe makes direct contact with all the BGA DRAM modules, and it conducts the heat to a larger section of aluminum fins located just above the memory module.
The heatpipe is held in position by a large black heatspreader which runs across the length of the memory module. The cooling setup OCZ employs with its ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth memory kit definitely works, and even at stock speeds you can feel the heat from the finned heatsink above the memory.
Please note that the OCZ PC ReaperX memory modules are quite wide, so you cannot install them side-by-side in adjacent memory slots. Test Methodology. On Intel Socket Core 2 Duo test systems, we're only interested in seeing how high we can go with the DDR-2 memory running , as running with other dividers puts the overclocking bottleneck elsewhere and not with the system memory.
Just for arguments sake, we will also be conducting overclocking tests to see how high the memory will go with lax timings , although we will only benchmark the system with the tight memory timings mentioned above.
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