Anyone got some OCZ ram just like some feedback.

Just read somewhere that they don't make the ram, just buy it and
rebrand it, anyone know who they buy it from ?

Thanks.

Does anyone make their ram ?, Corsair, ect ?

Thanks again.

 

Neither OCZ, Corsair, Gail or any other 'overclocking spacialist' ram is
made (as in the memory chips) by the company that markets it. They all just
buy memory chips from memory manufactureres (Micron, Winbond, Samsung etc)
and put it on their PCB... then they test it to make sure it performs to the
'enhanced' spec.

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There's only a handfull of ram manufactures. Other companies like Corsair,
OCZ, Muskin, etc. either assemble them into modules or have someone else
do it for them using their name on the finished product. Almost anything
you buy these days aren't really made by the company you buy them from.
The key to ram is not which module you buy or from who, but the actual ram
chip that's on it, I'm not sure who the big players are any longer, but
when I was building ram boards for old 6502 machines, it was Hitachi, NEC,
TI, Samsung, and maybe a couple more I can't remember. Look up the specs
on the ram the boards use and if you know what you're looking for you can
tell how well it will perform compared to another.

 

Would you recomend OCZ ram ?, just can get the same a few hundred
bucks less than Corsair, Kingston ect, seems like a bargin >?

Any thoughts.

 

I buy the cheapest (well close) ram I can find. If I don't want to
research the module for the ram chips on it I just buy faster ram than I
need. OCZ ram is as good as any I guess as long as you research what
you're buying. Personally, I think they're high. I don't know what size
you want, but I'd get something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-156-010&depa=0

or maybe one of these.

http://www.1stchoicememory.com/page103.html

 

They might be high in your country but in Austrlai they are cheaper
than corsair and kingston, the corsair ram i want is 620 aussie
dollars, the same type OCZ is 530 dollars.

Thats for Dual Channel, PC3200 512X2


So i guess its were in thw world you are depnds on the price ?

Thanks.

 

No point quoteing prices the sites prob don't even ship overseas
newegg don't i don't think so.

 

If the stability of the more expensive modules is better at the rated speed,
then surely the cheap one must not be completely stable, and should
therefore not rated at 250MHz?

What the hell is DDR copper? Or a DDR heatsink? Perhaps it's twice as fast
at removing heat?

How can the Markey Grade stuff NOT be Dual Channel capable?

How can the Market Grade stuff be incompatible with certain chipsets?

Perhaps this is the work of a complete moron of a marketing type trying to
differentiate the products? And where are the specs on Latencies? Since it
doesn't even tell you what the "major brand" is, you can't even find out.

Ben

 

1stchoicememory.com/ does not even tell you the memory timings ?
thats scam, no wonder so cheap, prob the same ram as well but differnt
heatsrpeader HA HA.

 

Another scam on newegg, no memory timings they can sell you any old
slow shit and charge you for the fast stuff you would never know, scam
scam scam.

 

Ben you agree with me, full moon tonight ?

 

Perhaps thats the reason why you felt it necessary to badly post 4
ill-considered replies.

But then, considering that the last full moon in Aus and the UK was on the
2nd of this month, probably not.

Ben

 

BEN YOU BITCH, SLAP

 

Would you recomend OCZ ram ?, just can get the same a few hundred

Had good luck with Kingmax last two machines.Ran 400mhz just like they said it
would without errors.




Ski
"The only way to find out how far is too far...
is to go there"
(remove spleen to e-mail)

 

What memory timings though for the KingMax >?

 

No big debate here.
4 Machines...All with OCZ ram
1 with PC2700 3 with PC3200 Enhanced 5-2-2-2 timings.
All stable at rated speed of 200Mhz at stock timings....with relaxed timming
6-3-3-2 can achieve 220Mhz stable...passes memtest 86 all tests 5 passes.

Boards used are Chaintech 7NJL4/Asus A7N8X Rev 2/Abit NF7 rev 2...2 boards
are the Asus.

I have also in past used Geil/Infinion/Crucial and have had no probs with
any of those either.
OZoNE

 

What memory timings though for the KingMax >?
2.5-3-3-8


Ski
"The only way to find out how far is too far...
is to go there"
(remove spleen to e-mail)

 

It show the current state of affairs when achieving the rated speed is
considered "good luck"



Ben

 

It show the current state of affairs when achieving the rated speed is

lemme see...last machine for ME, first motherboard died within an hour...second
went 4 days...first vid card wouldn't run 3d at all...had to tell supplier to
run my order history and see if I ACTUALLY knew how to bolt one of these
together. (AND I'd spent a fair amount of money with 'em...LOL!)

Current state of affairs is...build it faster, let the customer do the
R&D...LOL!



Ski
"The only way to find out how far is too far...
is to go there"
(remove spleen to e-mail)

 

Thats pretty unlucky.

Last machine I built has been perfect!

Couple of dodgy hard drives in the past (both some form of IBM DeathStar -
time will tell if Hitachi can do a better job, until then I'm sticking with
WD)

Ben