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OCZ PC3000 DDR Memory

SeventySeven

SeventySeven

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I haven't seen it available yet, but according to the OCZ Website they have PC3000 DDR memory.

It looks nice and that is definitely alot of speed!! What motherboards would actually be able to fully utilize this right now?!? Maybe the Iwill XP333?

 
Sounds like a bit of a con imho, the last time they had this was with pc2400 (150mhz ddr) which was little more than decent cas2 pc2100(133mhz ddr). The likely hood is that the memory is a cas2 or 2.5 pc2700 (166mhz ddr) which means that as long as you buy decent pc2700 it is likelt to hit those speeds anyway.
 
Yeah, on the site it says it is CAS 2.5, but so is the their PC2700. I think all the PC2700 is CAS 2.5, at least Mushkin and Kingmax are. So, same latency, but higher base speed (183Mhz).

I usually wait a while before jumping on new technology, but I hadn't even heard of this yet and wanted to hear some opinions.
 
Here is the whole point to OCZ's ratings:

They take high quality chips from the best manufacturers, and sort through them to find which ones perform the best. They then use those for the final product which is able to achieve the higher speeds. That doesn't mean that you'll get that higher speed on any particular board, the whole point is to reduce the CAS latency for quicker response time.

So therefore the speed rating is theoretical and not practical.

Whether or not the finished product is reliable, I'm still waiting to see. I tried using them on a Tyan Tiger board instead of registered ECC, and it posted, but it was too unstable. When I get my Epox board I'll try it on that and see if it works.
 
The chips are just handpicked. They are not a JEDEC approved form of memory, just PC2100/2400/2700 that is tested to run at the speed they are selling. Take that for what it's worth. Either way, you get 6-layered PCB memory that can run at that speed in some kind of configuration. This means you should still be able to hit really high speeds with it.
 
Perhaps their products are reliable, perhaps their products perform excellently. But I would never buy from OCZ. :|

The name embodies shady business practices.

:|:|:|
 
Ocz is about as reliable as BitBoys Oy are honest.
Knowing them and their history of dubious products if they claim the RAM is good for 183MHz DDR then you'd probably be lucky to manage 133MHz DDR.
 
Yep, avoid OCZ like the plague. Dubious (at best) business practices and their products often fail to reach their quoted speeds.

The only reliable PC2700 modules available right now are KingMax "TinyBGA" 5ns modules. They're a bit pricey, but they're true 5ns chips, not just some "tested" PC2100 or PC2400 that is supposed to do 166.
 


<< OCZ is a reliable as a 15 year old Renault Le Car. I bet the stuff is just "test" PC2100 sticks. >>

If they really test it to 366 MHz bus, it would be a first for them. But based on past performance, I suspect that the stick may be re-labelled without being tested.
 
the moral to get out of this is:

don't buy any spec. rated RAM from OCZ

mainly because it'll be crap for oc'ing...cuz they've weeded out all the good stuff...same w/ their cpus.
and basically anything else they sell like that.

take the risk and buy pc2700, i say
 
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