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Overclockerz DDR PC3000. What do you have to say??

pillage2001

pillage2001

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They cost about 85 dollars and is rated at 366Mhz CL2.5 but reviews have said that it has gotten up till 383Mhz CL222.

Does anybody have any experience with the overclockerz RAM?? I'm looking to trade my Crucial pC2100 for it.

I'm not buying from the overclockerz store BTW. Need some feedback before I jump onto it. 🙂
 
I'm using the OCZ PC3000, but I have also done vmem mod to give the ram 3.1v..check my sig speed..I believe the ram did 190-CL2 at 2.6v
 
Well, you could get lucky and get some that actually OC's like they claim, or you could be like a pretty good-sized chunk of the people that get OCZ RAM that won't hardly run at 266Mhz, CAS3. If you insist on buying it, at least get it from Newegg so you can RMA it if it's bad.

I'd stick with Corsair, Mushkin, Crucial or Kingmax (in that order).
 


<< Well, you could get lucky and get some that actually OC's like they claim, or you could be like a pretty good-sized chunk of the people that get OCZ RAM that won't hardly run at 266Mhz, CAS3. If you insist on buying it, at least get it from Newegg so you can RMA it if it's bad.

I'd stick with Corsair, Mushkin, Crucial or Kingmax (in that order). >>



I will buy it from Newegg. Besides getting bad sticks, what else are the bad sides of the RAM?? I heard that the overclockerz store is bad but what about the RAM?? They used to be used in lots of benchmarks before stuffs like Kingmax and others came out.

I'm ready to buy it from Newegg now. It's between the Kingmax and this. I'm running a Kt266A board BTW. Are those PC3000 sticks overclocked from stock speed(Say, PC2700 or PC2400) or PC3000 at stock speed?
 
I think the ocz store is what gave "OCZ" a bad name. The reviews that I have read on the memory look pretty good. I would be willing to try some if I was in the need for more memory.
 
there is no official PC 3000 spec, not even an official PC 2700 spec, and i'll bet all the chips are marked for 7.5 or 7 nanosecond, so yeah, its all overclocked.
 
My Kingmax PC2700 has 5ns chips.

It does 194Mhz at 2-3-3 @ 2.9V, and up to about 178Mhz at 2-3-2 @ 2.9V. 2-2-2 seems to get unstable a bit over 166Mhz.

These are all stable settings, meaning it passes multiple loops of MemTest 86. I could get into Windows as high as 200Mhz at 2-3-3, and could run most programs fine(including Prime95), but it would just seem a bit flaky. MemTest 86 confirmed this with many errors at this speed.

IMO, get Kingmax or Samsung PC2700. They both seem to OC really well and come with 5ns and 6ns chips respectively. Mushkin looks good if you want 512MB and to pay way too much for that Mushkin name. Crucial doesn't even have PC2700 out yet, and Corsair looks to be good. But why spend the same for 256MB of RAM when you can get almost 512MB of Kingmax or Samsung and OC to about the same levels? OCZ seems to be REALLY inconsistent. Some people can OC really high, and others would have been better off with a random stick of 7.5ns Crucial PC2100.

Just my opinion.
 
I got mine from Kommax. I talked to them on the phone and they swore it was 5ns. I only live about 2 miles away so I drove over and looked at some sticks. They all said "-05" on the modules. If you can get them to look at the RAM for you, that would help. That probably limits you to getting it from a small place. You might try Crazy PC.
 
I'd votr for the kingmax. I haven't had the DDR, but back in the SDRAM days their PC-150 tinyBGA was awesome.
 
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