Seems OCZ Came Around

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited November 2004 in Hardware
With their TCCD-based Gold rev 3 memory that clocks to insane speeds, it seemed to me that OCZ was shedding its "Second rate performance memory" image we were familiar with in 2002 and 2003. With failing sticks, no overclockability, etc. it seemed OCZ was destined for failure. But damn! :eek:

Take a look at this DDR2: OCZ PC2-4200.

3/2/2/8 DDRII 533MHz. Jesus! :wtf: Every OTHER DDRII stick is 3/4/4/11+.

For the record, look at this benchmark, pay careful attention to the difference timings make at 533MHz at the bottom! Over .5GB/s -- And look at those overclocked benchmarks!:

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Comments

  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2004
    Wow! 2-3-4 @720 beats 4-3-4@720 by a nice margin!!!! Timings are crucial!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Yea! The only reason DDRII has been getting its ass kicked by DDRI is merely because JEDEC signed DDRII away with pitiful timings (3/4/4 or worse), even though good chips that run 3/2/2/8 can obviously be mass-marketed.

    Timings made a difference on DDRI, but here the differences are on the order of 600mb/s.. Not 1 or 200 mb/s. OCZ rocks now. Dare I say, my next memory is going to be OCZ Rev 3 PC3700 Gold.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited November 2004
    I've been more than pleased with the OCZ I got from Omega in exchange for the Corsair PC3700 I had, the Corsair did not play well with my mobo at all and this OCZ has been simply beautiful, the timings are the same but the sheer speed I can pull out of these modules is just simply staggering.
    I agree with Thrax, from now on all my ram will be branded OCZ. :thumbsup:
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    Yea! The only reason DDRII has been getting its ass kicked by DDRI is merely because JEDEC signed DDRII away with pitiful timings (3/4/4 or worse), even though good chips that run 3/2/2/8 can obviously be mass-marketed.

    Timings made a difference on DDRI, but here the differences are on the order of 600mb/s.. Not 1 or 200 mb/s. OCZ rocks now. Dare I say, my next memory is going to be OCZ Rev 3 PC3700 Gold.
    Thrax,

    If you are after the best of the TCCD's, which both can do 5,2,2,2 and "intel-timings", you would choose 3700 Platinum. The 3700 gold uses Hynix i think.
    When will you buy the stuff? Hang on for a week, cause i have a pair of 3700 Platinum on it's way and should be here in a few days. They where sent yesterday.
  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Weren't OCZ the ones with terrible support run out of a garage or something, a few years back? I haven't really considered buying them since. But it does seme they've cleaned it up quite a bit.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    EMT:
    Yeah, they were the ones that had a shady reputation and were rumoured to be in association with, or a spinoff of GeIL. They've really seemed to pick themselves up and turned it all around though. They're giving Corsair a run for their money, now.

    Mackanz:
    Thanks for the tip, bud! :D But look here at confirmed TCCD modules and the linked benchmarks. We'll see how your 3700 platinum stacks up. I'm in the market to buy in the next month or two, no rush. I can wait to see how your sticks come out.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    My point was that the 3700 gold is more for an Intel rig as it isn't TCCD's. OCZ have 2 models with TCCD's, the 3200 Rev 2 and the 3700 Platinum. The difference between them is that the 3700 models is speed-binned chips that are tested to take Cas 2 much longer. My sticks are in Paris now, can't wait!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    I gotcha. Thanks Mack. :D
  • madmatmadmat
    edited November 2004
    Mackanz wrote:
    My sticks are in Paris now, can't wait!
    I hope they bring you something from the Eiffel Tower and Euro Disney. ;D
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Well, after a few hickups at first, the rig wouldn't post with more than 272 fsb no matter what timings and voltages set. That i believe, is the cpu's memorycontrollers fault or the mainboard. Until i get another cpu to test this with, i will never know.

    However, there is a good app called clockgen which is very nifty.
    This is just initial testing on rather conservative timings, but i'll start working on that. Vdimm is 2.8 volt. I use a low multi, so the sandra score is rather low for the fsb. 287 fsb 1:1 on a 512mb stick isn't to bad though.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited November 2004
    Hmmmm, me jealous :shakehead :)
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    I'll be damned!
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