OCZ Drops DRAM Production.

[tweakboy]

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2010/08/25/ocz_drops_dram_production/
:thumbsdown:

 

[airdata]

I'm confused...

Apparently higher prices for DRAM modules and lower profit margins are behind the decision.

How are profit margins lower? What was their profit margin when ddr2 prices 50% or less than what they are today?

Why wouldn't at least one manufacturer keep producing the same levels of DDR2 and just sell them at a cheaper price than their competitors?

 

[tweakboy]

Didn't OCZ start out their company by making RAM .... or was it PSU .. I dont know can someone clarify this. What did they sell when they came into the business.. just RAM , and then PSU and other hardware . cooling fans, etc..

 

[tweakboy]

Looks like the economy mess bush left us with affected OCZ LOLz,

 

[alfa147x]

Looks like the economy mess bush left us with affected OCZ LOLz,

 

[Rifter]

never seen that one before man, NICE!!!!!!

 

[RebateMonger]

How are profit margins lower?

OCZ doesn't make memory. They assemble memory modules using other people's memory chips.

Apparently the high prices of memory chips aren't being covered by what memory module makers can charge for the modules. Hence the lower profit margin on modules.

And, at least according to this article, sales of memory modules are down because consumers won't pay the high prices. I know I haven't bought memory in more than a year because I refuse to pay four or five times as much as I was paying a year and a half ago.

 

[CurseTheSky]

I never was a fan of OCZ's RAM. They did a lot of cool innovation back in the DDR2 wars, and have some decent DDR stuff back in the day, but I've heard of so many complaints about DOAs and incompatibility, especially with the low and mid-range stuff.

I'll stick with Corsair as my preference, with Crucial and G.Skill as backups when the price is right. Mushkin, Patriot, Kingston, and GEIL all fall into the "maybe" category.

 

[tweakboy]

Maybe the company wants to get into motherboard making.. or does OCZ already have a mobo out,, hmmmmmm.. Whatever their doing their saving money but I think their fans and PSU's will be high priced and what not.. to make up for it...

 

[FishAk]

hmmmmmm.. Whatever their doing their saving money but I think their fans and PSU's will be high priced and what not.. to make up for it...

Think about what you just said.

Why would they need to make up for saving money?

 

[CurseTheSky]

Maybe the company wants to get into motherboard making.. or does OCZ already have a mobo out,, hmmmmmm.. Whatever their doing their saving money but I think their fans and PSU's will be high priced and what not.. to make up for it...

IIRC, OCZ currently "makes" (tweaks, then slaps a label on and resells, actually) memory (mostly enthusiast oriented), PSUs (mostly mediocre at best, some decent), and heatsinks. They don't produce motherboards, cases, or anything of that sort to my knowledge.

 

[Eeqmcsq]

OCZ isn't completely dropping out of the DRAM business, just the lower end DRAM stuff. They'll still sell higher end DRAM kits. I'm not sure exactly where they draw the line between lower end and higher end, though.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11536&Itemid=22

 

[Zap]

Didn't OCZ start out their company by making RAM .... or was it PSU .. I dont know can someone clarify this.

Didn't they use to make HSFs out of some strip mall BITD? IIRC they went out of business and resurrected.

 

[Tsavo]

Didn't they use to make HSFs out of some strip mall BITD? IIRC they went out of business and resurrected.

Yep. Gotta start somewhere!

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I'm loving their DDR3-1600. Running it in four OC'ed i7 systems with no complaints.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I never was a fan of OCZ's RAM. They did a lot of cool innovation back in the DDR2 wars, and have some decent DDR stuff back in the day, but I've heard of so many complaints about DOAs and incompatibility, especially with the low and mid-range stuff.

I'll stick with Corsair as my preference, with Crucial and G.Skill as backups when the price is right. Mushkin, Patriot, Kingston, and GEIL all fall into the "maybe" category.

OCZ probably hit their peak back when they offered OCZ Value VX DDR1. That stuff was amazing. Some of the fastest ram you could buy (if you were an overclocker) and at bargain prices.

 

[Emulex]

ocz is like the dell - innovate at nothing - copy the success of others. what exactly do they make? stickers? pcb boards?

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

ocz is like the dell - innovate at nothing - copy the success of others. what exactly do they make? stickers? pcb boards?

Just to let you know so you don't keep writing incorrect information, G.Skill, OCZ, Corsair, Patriot and probably other companies that I am missing all buy their RAM from manufacturers and don't make it themselves. Nothing new here.

Also, there are very few companies that make PSU's as well, almost all the name brands that you know are all built by a different company then what you think.

Same thing with video cards, SSD's, etc......lots of these companies don't "make" these products.