OCZ PC3700 vs Corsair PC3700

[wicktron]

@ ABXZone

 

[Ph33zy]

good post... i'm glad i went with the 3700 gold instead of the corsairs...

 

[touchmyichi]

OCZ has really surprised me lately

 

[Corporate Thug]

yeah, ocz's dark days are gone

 

[touchmyichi]

oh the hell did they get it to run at 466 w/ 2-3-3-7 timings? Thats really good lol.

 

[Lyfer]

Wow. Im clearly impressed.


Im also amazed at the $230 they run for 2 sticks of 256MB, they dont come cheap either.

 

[Corporate Thug]

yeah, i saw a 1 gb package a twinX PC3700 (2*512) for $409!!!! geez, thats almost a system in itself

 

[Jen]

OCZ Pc3700 works well with intel platforms for AMD go with the Pc3500 Platinum OCZ stuff



my ocz pc3700 takes 3.17 volts to be stable at or above 227 fsb on my abit nf7s rev 2.0. timings are at 5 3 2 2




Jen

 

[wicktron]

Another comparison at ClubOC

 

[orion7144]

I love my OCZ Gold (Thanks wixt0r).

 

[wicktron]

Glad you're enjoying it.

 

[Icewind]

My Corsair 3700 TwinX 1 gig is now at 210FSB completely stable, and currently pushing harder. I'll pay extra for Corsair for their proven track record, as OCZ really doesn't have one to be proud of.

And I only paid $300 for mine.. ppppphhh

 

[wicktron]

210FSB is only DDR420 (assuming you're at 1:1), you're not even getting rated speed from it right now.

 

[nova41]

I've got the Corsair RAM as well, no problems at all I got 2 GB of the stuff for 600 bucks about 4 weeks ago(2 TwinX sets).

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Icewind
My Corsair 3700 TwinX 1 gig is now at 210FSB completely stable, and currently pushing harder. I'll pay extra for Corsair for their proven track record, as OCZ really doesn't have one to be proud of.

And I only paid $300 for mine.. ppppphhh

a couple of months ago i would pick XMS or OCZ, but OCZ el has really impressed. XMS timings on 3700 and 4000 are crap. ocz el pc3700 will most likely do 250 mhz with much better timings

 

[stardust]

OCZ inside \/ proud owner of the 3700...blehh to oldfart for doubting DDR500 1:1 speed against 5:4 for the price lol j/k.
running happily at DDR500 but at somewhat looser timings... 2.5-4-4-8 (2.85V) on P4P800 dunno why...and it causes graphic corruptions although passed both memtest and prime25 for cpu.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: stardust
OCZ inside \/ proud owner of the 3700...blehh to oldfart for doubting DDR500 1:1 speed against 5:4 for the price lol j/k.
running happily at DDR500 but at somewhat looser timings... 2.5-4-4-8 (2.85V) on P4P800 dunno why...and it causes graphic corruptions although passed both memtest and prime25 for cpu.

I am running my gold at 250 1:1 2.5-3-3-7. I am starting to believe all this timming hype is all crap. It might be something to worry about on the slower Athlon systems but on the P4 C's I don't think it matters. I ran Sandra w/ the Gold and got the same scores @ 3-3-3-7 as I did @ 2.5-3-3-7. When I was using the OCZ PC3500EL I got the same scores +- 40 pts from 2-2-2-6 all the way up to 3-3-3-7 at the same FSB. So these timings in my mind are a waste. It is all about the FSB speed.