OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) Platinum pc3200

[Dasenergi]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227210

not to bad, lowest ive seen them

 

[Corporate Thug]

very nice deal, thanx OP

 

[JSLIM]

I've been wanting a set, but tax is killing the deal for me.

 

[formulav8]

What chips would they possibly be using?


Jason

 

[KDKPSJ]

Originally posted by: formulav8
What chips would they possibly be using?


Jason

Seems like Infinion. Not sure though, since there's no confirm from any of OCZ people on OCZ forum.

 

[d3lt4]

AT said probably infineon but ???

 

[petesamprs]

How much better are these than my current Mushkin 3-3-3-8? Noticible improvement?

 

[mordantmonkey]

hmmm new psu and case? or trade 2x512 for 2x1gb? ahhh only days to decide!!!

 

[ShadoWing]

pretty nice deal, too bad im poor

 

[Budarow]

Originally posted by: ShadoWing
pretty nice deal, too bad im poor

I'm with you brother I've got 2 more months before my credit card is paid in full (pc purchases plus Christmas). Including the 2 months above, I will be paying $70 in interest so no more purchases until it's paid off. I could have had 1.5 NEC burners for that 70 bucks

 

[KDKPSJ]

Originally posted by: d3lt4
AT said probably infineon but ???

I don't know. Result extremely varies. Some users at OCZ support forum only got 220@CL2.5 out of it (what you can expect from Infinion), while some got 270@CL2.5 (what you can expect from Samsung). So, it's huge YMMV matter. Again, no official word from OCZ.

 

[chinkgai]

i have these. the chips are aeneon...which are a division of infineon.

220-230 seems to be about the max for these. i got lucky though and got 245 out of these. an ocz rep was shocked when i told him my results.

just run a divider...a64 doesnt lose much performance with dividers anyways.

 

[Woofmeister]

I have this RAM and I'm sorry to say that I'm not very impressed with it. The set will make a large difference in load time and game playability over a conventional 1GB set, but these particular modules seem like OCZ's lowest end. They don't overclock worth squat and they've forced me to lower my CPU clock settings in order to run stable.

If I had to do it over, I'd probably go with the Corsair TwinX2048-4000PT or hold out for OCZ's Platinum Edition 2GB PC4000 DDR DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit.

Edit Oh, one more thing. It took me more than four months to get the rebate back from OCZ.

 

[Zebo]

Hawt. You guys loose nothing with a divider - plus ~210 2-3-2 beats 3-3-3 @ 250 all day which expensive cruical ballistix does. Buy it if you need it.

 

[chinkgai]

245 @ 2.5-3-2-5 for me max

242 @ 2.5-3-2-5 for daily 2.9ghz (242*12)

 

[Dasenergi]

I hit 245 with ease with these OCZ sticks.. I think like with all ram it just luck of the draw as the comparable corsair sticks I had
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575
they would would only do 225 with the exact same set up timings ect... then again DFI has hated all corsair Ive thrown at it

 

[Zebo]

OTOH I may get this for 165 AR - same timings
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141236

 

[Epsil0n00]

Originally posted by: Zebo
OTOH I may get this for 165 AR - same timings
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820141236

what't the general opinion of PQI brand RAM... what about the pair Zebo linked? Is this stuff in the same quality-range as Corsair, Crucial and OCZ?

 

[chinkgai]

only experience i have with pqi is through some value ram, which wasnt very good at all. wouldnt even run stock speed at 2t. this was a very cheap 1gig kit though.

try to see if u can find what chips these things hold. then maybe we can start speculating

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: Dasenergi
I hit 245 with ease with these OCZ sticks.. I think like with all ram it just luck of the draw as the comparable corsair sticks I had
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145575
they would would only do 225 with the exact same set up timings ect... then again DFI has hated all corsair Ive thrown at it

i had this kit, it was teh suck at oc'ing

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: chinkgai
only experience i have with pqi is through some value ram, which wasnt very good at all. wouldnt even run stock speed at 2t. this was a very cheap 1gig kit though.

try to see if u can find what chips these things hold. then maybe we can start speculating

reviews for the pqi set on newegg look pretty damn bad. i think i'll toss in the extra 20 for the added quality.

 

[wildwilly]

What are the fastest 1 gig sticks without overclocking?

 

[aldamon]

Originally posted by: chinkgai
i had this kit, it was teh suck at oc'ing

LOL. RAM overclocking doesn't mean much of anything to the Athlon 64. The move from single-channel Socket 754 to dual-channel Socket 939 netted a 5% performance boost. You think overclocking RAM a few megahertz is going to do anything measurable for performance in real-world apps? Please. Running high HTTs does nothing for the A64 either.

I've had this set for months and it's rock solid. It runs all day @ 212 - 213 @ 2-3-2-5-1T. I sold some OCZ Value VX and some TCCD to get it. I see no difference in performance and I had 3.6V running through the VX @ 250 with 2-2-2-5-1T timings.

This is high-quality RAM with an excellent warranty. You can't really go wrong if you want 2GB of RAM.

 

[chinkgai]

dont "LOL" at me, cuz i've been through all you have and more i'm sure. vx? tccd? value vx? regular vx? yeah been there done that.

single core? 754? 939? dual core? yeah been there done that also.

overclocking itself usually does not provide "anything measureable" in real world apps unless they are monster overclocks. so please :roll:

we do what we do for fun. we buy what we can also for fun. why buy crap when u can buy much better stuff for a tiny bit more?

 

[chinkgai]

here are much hotter deals than anything mentioned in this thread though:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=40&threadid=1795390&enterthread=y