PC Stats has posted a review on the OCZ PC2700 EL Dual Channel Memory 2x 256MB Kit
It was only a matter of time before manufacturers and their marketing departments jumped all over the "dual channel DDR" craze created by nVIDIA's nForce2 (Athlon) and Intel's Granite Bay/Springdale/Canterwood (P4) chipsets. In all honesty I understand why they did it, after all if you can charge more for DIMM's "tested" to run properly together why not do it? Like everything else in life it always all comes down to money. Today we're going to be checking out OCZ's PC2700 EL (Enhanced Latency) memory kit which consists of two 256MB modules intended for dual channel DDR motherboards. OCZ equip this memory with black aluminum heatspreaders which are supposed to help with passive cooling, but considering that there are four DRAM's per side I don't think this is really all that necessary. The black aluminum heat spreader looks sleek and at least offers some static protection to the precious DRAM's below.Read more
