While the original DDR memory has pretty much reached its limit with 2.0-2-2-5 timings, DDR2 is still in the evolving phase and we keep seeing new modules with higher frequencies and tighter timings. Since the difference between these constant revisions isn’t exactly dramatic, memory providers think of adding further value to their products to make their modules more attractive.

Today, we take a look at OCZ’s Titanium series of DDR2 modules that are made from hand picked chips for the best in performance and stability and before we get into the benchmarks, lets briefly talk about why you would want to consider the Platinum series from OCZ. Imagine you’re playing your favorite game- say Battlefield 2 which is not only intensive on your graphics card, but also requires muchos system memory. Suddenly, you feel a disturbance in force and before you know it, your system is down and out.

Now being a tech savvy guy, you start troubleshooting and figure out that one of your modules from your dual channel setup conked out. Problem is that the online store you ordered the module from wants it back to test and only after that will they send you the replacement. Now, if you had the OCZ Titanium series that has handpicked high quality memory chips and comes with their PowerSwap Warranty, all you would need to do is call them and they could send out the replacement module the very same day while you pack and send your bad module. Now that is definitely some good service.

These new Titanium series modules that were sent our way had an SPD setting of 4.0-2-2-8 at DDR533 speed which is certainly better than the standard ones timed at 4.0-4-4-12, however, its not too big of a departure. At these timings, we were able to overclock the modules to around DDR600 speed while lowering the timing allowed us to reach as high as DDR700 speed. We tested these modules on the MSI nforce4 Platinum motherboard using the Pentium4 3.46GHz EE CPU and the following pages show some benchmarks comparing the titanium series to OCZ’s older standard DDR2 modules timed at 4.0-4-4-12.