Several companies continue to battle for DDR2 market share as the real-world need for high-speed DDR3 remains questionable. Relying on the high value of DDR2, performance enthusiasts ranging from overclockers to professional applications users continue to view memory capacity and timings as two of the prime factors in their system's overall fitness.

Perhaps most familiar to gaming system builders, OCZ Technology has long tried to push the envelope without breaking its customer's budgetary needs. Its Titanium CL3 DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) is the latest in a long line of contenders to the price-performance throne.

Sporting low "CAS 3" timings at 800MHz, shiny heat-spreaders and a new lower price, can OCZ's Titanium CL3 memory steal some of the performance market away from larger players?