timidi
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OCZ memory
I noticed somewhere a recommendation to not get OCZ Ram.
any comments on the good bad or ugly of said ram?
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Re:OCZ memory
2010/12/15 17:52:05
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I have it and have no problems with it - but I have no frame of reference for other brands.
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Re:OCZ memory
2010/12/15 18:00:21
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i would not touch it with a 10' pole
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timidi
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Re:OCZ memory
2010/12/15 19:07:04
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jcschild
i would not touch it with a 10' pole
Thanks, that's good enough for me.
post edited by timidi - 2010/12/15 20:29:03
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Re:OCZ memory
2010/12/15 21:25:27
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I put 12GB into my Win-7 machine and it was a royal pain to get all 12-GB working properly. It was not just a matter of plugging in the six 2-GB memory sticks (which is what I would expect). Doing that would only show 8-GB recognized by Win-7. I had to do testing of all this sticks in various slots until I got a working configuration, and also time consuming memory tests.Whether this was the OCZ memory or the motherboard, I do not know for sure. But it was such a frigging pain which took about a week to get right, that I will avoid OCZ next time.
post edited by KenB123 - 2010/12/15 21:26:46
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Re:OCZ memory
2010/12/19 21:44:18
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I bought 3 x 4 gig sticks(12 gb) of OCZ gold with the view to add another 3 x 4 gig sticks at a later date makeing it 24gb in tottal :)
It was plug n play for me no problems at all
Norrie
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Re:OCZ memory
2010/12/31 04:54:52
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What do different things again that we have to throw some 'business needs benchmarks, so you can see what kind of performance gain you can expect a bit' overclocked DDR. Overclocking your PC does not work for everyone, but the motherboard manufacturers to provide software overclocking utility that you can squeeze a bit 'more from most platforms without sacrificing so much in terms of reliability.
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/02 14:57:04
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I won't use anything but OCZ or Cosair. OCZ, I believe, was formed by Corsair employees who felt the company had gotten too fat sotospeak. At least I think that's how they started. Anyway, I've never had a problem with their ram. It's possible they got a bad run of chips but that happens to every manufacturer.
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 03:45:03
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Since low latency high speed DRAM just doesn't exist, we have to look towards lower than average latencies in high speed DDR to find the best marriage of the two worlds. For that, we'll be testing out OCZ's recently released PC3500EB Platinum Dual Channel Memory kit. Each stick in this 1GB kit is 512MB in size, and comes from the familiar family of OCZ's Enhanced Bandwidth line of memory products.
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 06:36:51
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There can be compatibility issues with some PC vendor or motherboards and some brands of memory. We see that a lot on the Dell users forum, as Dell's can be finnicky about memory. For non-Dell we always recommend Crucial memory as it is guaranteed to work in Dell's.
On the other hand, my Intel motherboard doesn't seem to care what is used as long as it's 1.8 Volt memory.
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 06:41:34
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timidi
jcschild
i would not touch it with a 10' pole
Thanks, that's good enough for me.
Still, I'd like to know why...
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 08:29:01
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timidi
jcschild
i would not touch it with a 10' pole
Thanks, that's good enough for me.
Still, I'd like to know why...
I would like to know that aswell a lot of major Daw builders use OCZ and I modeld mine off of one of theres Why wouldnt you touch OCZ ?
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jcschild
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 09:24:39
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Zuma
I won't use anything but OCZ or Cosair. OCZ, I believe, was formed by Corsair employees who felt the company had gotten too fat sotospeak. At least I think that's how they started. Anyway, I've never had a problem with their ram. It's possible they got a bad run of chips but that happens to every manufacturer.
not even close.. OCZ started out as a retail company back in 99/2000 not long after i started in 98. they sold pre-tested over clocked processors. (just like i did back then) and motherboard/oced cpu/ ram combos. no warranty terrible ratings. they went from retail (where they could not cut it) to being a disty. somehow they started doing cpu coolers with thier name on them (think thermaltake rebranded its been awhile) then power supplies. then memory. as a manufacturer they have had better success than as retail, but over the yrs when i have tried them its always been the same issue. incompatibility, or 1 batch would be ok the next no go.. just no consistancy. or 1 type ram was ok but others were not. today its not much different the biggest issue i have with them (and several others) is how the ram is tatoo'ed. EG: claims of say DDR 3 1600 CL7 but it reads (auto detects) 1333 CL7 add to that out of JEdec spec timings particularly the back side (sub timings) we used Super Talent for about 10 yrs (before it was even named super talent) thier ram would work when orthers would not. then they started having the same issues with out of spec timings. (better now) we tried pretty much everyone after that and only Corsair and Mushkin proved consistant. gskill has made a name for themselves as well in the last few yrs. Super Talent is back on track.. Scott ADK
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Zuma
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 09:53:42
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jcschild
Zuma
I won't use anything but OCZ or Cosair. OCZ, I believe, was formed by Corsair employees who felt the company had gotten too fat sotospeak. At least I think that's how they started. Anyway, I've never had a problem with their ram. It's possible they got a bad run of chips but that happens to every manufacturer.
not even close.. OCZ started out as a retail company back in 99/2000 not long after i started in 98. they sold pre-tested over clocked processors. (just like i did back then) and motherboard/oced cpu/ ram combos.
no warranty terrible ratings.
they went from retail (where they could not cut it) to being a disty. somehow they started doing cpu coolers with thier name on them (think thermaltake rebranded its been awhile) then power supplies. then memory.
as a manufacturer they have had better success than as retail, but over the yrs when i have tried them its always been the same issue.
incompatibility, or 1 batch would be ok the next no go.. just no consistancy.
or 1 type ram was ok but others were not.
today its not much different the biggest issue i have with them (and several others) is how the ram is tatoo'ed.
EG: claims of say DDR 3 1600 CL7 but it reads (auto detects) 1333 CL7
add to that out of JEdec spec timings particularly the back side (sub timings)
we used Super Talent for about 10 yrs (before it was even named super talent) thier ram would work when orthers would not.
then they started having the same issues with out of spec timings. (better now)
we tried pretty much everyone after that and only Corsair and Mushkin proved consistant.
gskill has made a name for themselves as well in the last few yrs.
Super Talent is back on track..
Scott
ADK
Haha... I knew I could get you out of hiding! How's it goin' Scott old boy? You on the new cubase forum yet? Wondering how things are going over there but don't feel like buying anything yet just to find out LOL.
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jcschild
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 10:27:26
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LOL,
things are very good here! we had our best yr ever last yr. so i am a little less grumpy than normal :-)
Cubase errr i have to enter a dongle # still... never have had to before but now its required.
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skullsession
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 11:23:29
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jcschild
Zuma
I won't use anything but OCZ or Cosair. OCZ, I believe, was formed by Corsair employees who felt the company had gotten too fat sotospeak. At least I think that's how they started. Anyway, I've never had a problem with their ram. It's possible they got a bad run of chips but that happens to every manufacturer.
not even close.. OCZ started out as a retail company back in 99/2000 not long after i started in 98. they sold pre-tested over clocked processors. (just like i did back then) and motherboard/oced cpu/ ram combos.
no warranty terrible ratings.
they went from retail (where they could not cut it) to being a disty. somehow they started doing cpu coolers with thier name on them (think thermaltake rebranded its been awhile) then power supplies. then memory.
as a manufacturer they have had better success than as retail, but over the yrs when i have tried them its always been the same issue.
incompatibility, or 1 batch would be ok the next no go.. just no consistancy.
or 1 type ram was ok but others were not.
today its not much different the biggest issue i have with them (and several others) is how the ram is tatoo'ed.
EG: claims of say DDR 3 1600 CL7 but it reads (auto detects) 1333 CL7
add to that out of JEdec spec timings particularly the back side (sub timings)
we used Super Talent for about 10 yrs (before it was even named super talent) thier ram would work when orthers would not.
then they started having the same issues with out of spec timings. (better now)
we tried pretty much everyone after that and only Corsair and Mushkin proved consistant.
gskill has made a name for themselves as well in the last few yrs.
Super Talent is back on track..
Scott
ADK
Thanks for the info, Scott. I'm always impressed with your timely and patient response to folks. It looks good on ya.
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Zuma
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 12:57:04
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jcschild
LOL,
things are very good here! we had our best yr ever last yr. so i am a little less grumpy than normal :-)
Cubase errr i have to enter a dongle # still... never have had to before but now its required.
Well, I'm glad you had a good year... it was sheer hell for me and I damn sure hope 2011 is a little smoother sailing. I miss BS'n at Cubase but i'm not gonna be bullied into buying the new software just so I can post in that particular forum. When I can afford it I'll get C6 and join up again. Oh btw, that was a total BS story I made up about the forming of OCZ... I couldn't resist having a little fun steinberg style. 
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timidi
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 14:01:51
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Oh btw, that was a total BS story I made up about the forming of OCZ... I couldn't resist having a little fun steinberg style. That's mature.. Blocked.
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Zuma
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/03 15:04:30
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timidi
Oh btw, that was a total BS story I made up about the forming of OCZ... I couldn't resist having a little fun steinberg style.
That's mature..
Blocked.
For those of you who don't know, I know Scott from cubase.net and was just having a little fun. I find it a little ridiculous that someone would block me for that. Not really surprising though. *gratuitous eye roll* Edit: hope my little joke didn't cause him to soil his panties.
post edited by Zuma - 2011/01/03 15:56:11
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/16 09:24:58
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I have had better luck with Corsair. OCZ seems to like to sell 1600 RAM that won't even boot at 1600. If you fell like you have to buy OCZ buy the better stuff and you'll get a better chance of it running the advertised speeds.
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Re:OCZ memory
2011/01/25 00:35:41
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Configured for dual channel mode, these kits 4 GB Ultra-consistent performance with an ideal combination of low power requirements at 1600MHz. Developed for cost-conscious fans and players, the new OCZ modules were designed with accessibility and performance of the latest Intel.
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