Any opinions on OCZ RAM? Experiences?

[IndustrialStr]

I bought 256MB of PC3000 DDR OCZ RAM and was wondering if you all had any positive/negative opinions of their 'hand picked' chips.

I assume basically some guy sits around testing Micron DIMMS for stability - but just wanted to get the spin from you guys on this ram vs Crucial or Mushkin or Kingston/Kingmax.

I need to pickup another stick but it went up $15 from when I bought the last one 😛 It's still olot cheaper than Mushkin etc... so that worries me a bit.

 

[mschell]

Micron and Crucial are the same. Mushkin uses Micron/Crucial in some of their line.
Don't know who is producing OCZ memory but it's "Fashion colored" - seen a news blurb somewhere for a mem maker that was making colored modules.
The "heat spreaders"on the memory modules are worthless.
I guess they are trying to associate their memory with expensive Rambus modules. Rambus needs heat spreaders because only one or two chips on the module are active at any given time. The single chip gets hot because it's carrying the entire modules load. The spreader helps transfer the heat to the adjoining chips. DDR SDRAM uses all module chips simultaneously so the heat spreaders might actually be inhibiting the modules ability to transfer heat to the surrounding air.
I have heard reports of some very high FBS overclocks using the OCZ memory. Haven't heard anything about the ability to use 2t ultra timings with the memory however.

 

[DragonFire]

I'v heard that its crap and nothing about them is good. In fact I bought some PC160 ram from them some time ago and the stupid stuff wouldnt even do 133mhz CAS2
Now it runs on a old slot-a board at 100mhz. Waste of money

 

[RaistlinZ]

I bought some PC-150 CAS2 SDRAM way back when and it worked great. Not too sure about their DDR RAM though.

 

[Strawberrymom]

some say its good some say its bad.

Id have gone kingmax. they use the best ram chips and they dont need heat spreaders

 

[BadThad]

I bought 2-256MB OCZ PC150 CAS2 SDRAM about a month ago and I'm disappointed with it. I'm only running it at 138 fsb and I've been getting crashes with it that I NEVER had with my plain cas3 infineon ram. Not long ago i was reading a thread here where the AT MOD came in and said AT forums don't allow links to OCZ because of past experiences. Well, that was enough for me to know these guys are a rip.

Want the best ram and support? ....nothing beats Corsair.

 

[dannybin1742]

i got some pc2400 and an new iwill xp333 and it runs fine at 166, i've even gotten it upwards of 170, but it seems to lose stability at 171, and heat spreaders work sort of like a heat sink, so it is possible fro the heats spreaders to work, it just mihgt now make that big of a difference.

 

[BigJ]

The OCZ line of products has been around awhile. They used to have a chain of E-stores, and the Mods here did say that links pointing to their products were not allowed awhile back. Several months ago, alot of people stated in these forums that they were getting screwed with any purchases made labeled "OCZ". These stores advertised overclocked products (ie AMD Processors, RAMS, etc) but, for lack of a better choice of words, performed like crap and many people felt they were cheated out of their money. I would stay away from all of their products. A nice new website and closing down their E-Stores is not enough to fool ATers who have seen their scams in the past. If real fast RAM was needed, I would have definitely gone with Mushkin or Corsair PC2700.