OCZ 3700 Gold Rev. 3: DDR500 Value for Athlon 64 & Intel 478

AMD Test Results: OCZ PC3700 Gold Rev. 3

To be considered stable for test purposes Quake3 benchmark, UT2003 Demo, Super PI, Aquamark 3, and RTCW had to complete without incident. ANY of these, and in particular Super PI and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, will crash a less-than stable memory configuration.

OCZ 3700 Gold Rev. 3 (DDR466) - 2 x 512Mb Double-Bank
CPU Ratio at 2.4GHz	Memory Speed	Memory Timings & Voltage	Quake3 fps	Sandra UNBuffered	Sandra Standard Buffered	Super PI 2M places (time in sec)	Wolfenstein - Radar - Enemy Territory fps
12x200	400 DDR	2-3-3-10 2.5V	503.3	INT 2577 FLT 2673	INT 6063 FLT 6014	82	109.0
11.5x209	400.4*	2-3-3-10 2.6V	500.4	INT 2506 FLT 2660	INT 6023 FLT 5982	82	108.2
11x218	438 DDR	2-3-3-10 2.8V	510.0	INT 2687 FLT 2845	INT 6413 FLT 6350	81	109.8
10.5x229	437.2*	2.5-3-3-10 2.6V	506.5	INT 2639 FLT 2801	INT 6435 FLT 6343	81	109.5
10x240	480 DDR	2.5-3-3-10 2.6V	517.6	INT 2814 FLT 2985	INT 6659 FLT 6551	80	111.2
9.5x253	480.6*	2.5-3-3-10 2.6V	519.7	INT 2866 FLT 3020	INT 6662 FLT 6584	80	111.5
9x267	533 DDR	3-3-3-10 2.7V	524.9	INT 3013 FLT 3234	INT 6959 FLT 6871	79	112.5
8.5x282	533*	3-3-3-10 2.75V	524.9	INT 3036 FLT 3218	INT 6926 FLT 6838	79	112.5
8.5x290 (2.46GHz)	HIGHEST 548* DDR	3-3-3-10 2.85V	539.6	INT 3112 FLT 3310	INT 7130 FLT 7044	78	115.5
9x273 (2.46GHz)	HIGHEST 546 DDR	3-3-3-10 2.85V	536.2	INT 3071 FLT 3298	INT 7110 FLT 7002	77	115.1

*During testing, we discovered that while half-ratios do reflect CPU settings accurately, they are not really linear for memory speed. Memory speeds at full ratios are reported accurately. The asterisk values are the actual memory speeds at half ratios - not the reported memory speeds. Special thanks to Oskar Wu of DFI for his help in determining true half ratio memory speeds.

We have become accustomed to memory often reaching much lower overclocks on Athlon 64 than what we have found on the Intel 478 platform. It was, therefore, a pleasant surprise to find the OCZ 3700 Gold Rev. 3 actually performing slightly faster on the Athlon 64 Dual Channel 939 board than what we found on the Intel platform. OCZ claims that the 3700 Gold Rev. 3 performs equally well on A64 and Northwood/Prescott, and we were certainly able to confirm that claim in our memory tests.