OCZ EB DDR PC-3700 2x1024MB Platinum XTC Dual Channel Kit

[Bio-Hazard]

There was this nice man that stopped by my house this evening bearing gifts from the Gods, and what a heavenly gift it is........... 8) Looks like I have a little work/fun ahead of me in the upcoming weeks.............. :twisted:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_eb_ddr_pc_3700_2x1024mb_platinum_xtc_dual_chan nel_kit

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[El_Seano]

looking forward to it Bio

[royalk4]

those look sweet

[kcaverly]

How do I become a reviewer and get to play with all these fun things?

Kevin

[tmgp]

where are those tests? i can't find info about these mems in no place!

i would like to decide between the ones in test and the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Platinum 2GB (2x1024) 400MHz DDR 2-3-2-5 as they can do DDR445/450 at 2-3-2-5, and at 2.5-3-3-7 they reach DDR520...

help me out Bio-Hazard, it seems that you're the only one with those mems! :D

[zachig]

I'll be looking forward that review, Bio. Thanks!!! :wink:

I'm interested to see how higher will they go, as I currently have the OCZ XTC 2GB (2x1GB) RAM, which I've win here at OCIA.net and I could "hardly" run them at 230MHz (DDR460) with timings 2.5-3-3-8, and loosening te timings to 3-4-4-8 and/or upping the voltage to anything above 2.75V didn't help... :cry:

[Bio-Hazard]

I'm running in a few problems here myself............... :cry: They run great up to 250 HTT, but it stops right there.

[zachig]

I'm running in a few problems here myself............... :cry: They run great up to 250 HTT, but it stops right there.

Really??? At least they reach 250 HTT... :???: as mine reach "only" 230 HTT... :cry:

[Bio-Hazard]

I'm not sure what type of IC's are used on these sticks yet, but I don't think they are the same as what's on the PC4000 that Silenze reviewed. They don't seem to like extra voltage much at all and looser timings do get me any farther either. The strange thing is that they will pass memtest for like 10 loops but I get video problems as soon as I boot into windows above 250 HTT, I've never had this sort of problem before. It may be that they don't play well with my ATi video card or something. I'm sort of stuck on this right now, guess I've got more testing with different setting to do.

[zachig]

I'm not sure what type of IC's are used on these sticks yet, but I don't think they are the same as what's on the PC4000 that Silenze reviewed. They don't seem to like extra voltage much at all and looser timings do get me any farther either. The strange thing is that they will pass memtest for like 10 loops but I get video problems as soon as I boot into windows above 250 HTT, I've never had this sort of problem before. It may be that they don't play well with my ATi video card or something. I'm sort of stuck on this right now, guess I've got more testing with different setting to do.

Hehehe :lol: You're describing the same problems I was facing when trying to set mine to anything higher than 235 HTT.

I had "strange" lines/artifacts during windows startup, altough memtest passed more than 5 cycles of test#5.
On 240 HTT, I already got TONS of errors in memtest.

When I tried to set Vram voltage to anything above 2.75V, I started to get errors in memtest even at 226-227HTT??? :???:
Also trying to loosen the timings to something like 3-4-4-8, didn't seem to help... :cry:

I guess my chips are also not Winbond BH-5...so I wonder what they really are??? :???:

Please forgive me for saying that, but at least I'm not the only one who's facing such problems with his OCZ XTC RAM.

Anyway, I'm currently running mine at 200HTT while my X2 3800+ CPU runs at 2.4GHz (240x10), using a divider. :wink:

Too bad I can't use a different divider to run the OCZ's in a higher HTT.
...And yeah, I also tried running at 280x9 and 270x9 with a divider for the RAM so it'll run at 225HTT, but couldn't make it stable, so I kept my CPU at 240x10...

[silenze]

Nope they're not BH-5, can't get 1Gb modules of that unfortunately.

I'm not sure what your ram is, but overclockercafe got it to 261Mhz @ 3-3-3-8-1T..

[tmgp]

hmmm... if it is so, the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Platinum 2GB (2x1024) is a better bet as it can reach higher speeds with better timmings!

[zachig]

Nope they're not BH-5, can't get 1Gb modules of that unfortunately.

I'm not sure what your ram is, but overclockercafe got it to 261Mhz @ 3-3-3-8-1T..

WOW!!! 261MHz, that's quite impressive!!! :wink: I didn't know someone could get this RAM to run that high, though I've read/seen some reviews in which they could run the RAM at 250MHz with 3-4-4-8-1T timings... :???:

[Bio-Hazard]

Only one thing to remember, all system's don't OC the same, and the timings I'm getting at DDR500 are a bit tighter........... 8) This could be a problem with the memory controler on my CPU also, I just don't have another one to test it out with............ :cry: My CPU is one of the first E3 Venice cores, the later E6 cores have a better memory controler on board....... 8)

[silenze]

I was speaking of zachig's memory.

That pc3700 is probably infineon or UCCC if not micron.

[Bio-Hazard]

I still haven't found out what type of IC's are on these yet, I guess I might have to pull the heat spreaders when the time comes......... :cry:

I just seen that Tech Powerup has updated their data base, it lists them as Micron 5B C.

[silenze]

Sounds acceptable.

The pc4000 plat xtc was micron 5B F, and it looooovvvveees voltage.

[zachig]

Hmmm...That's interesting. I always thought I had BH-5 chips on my OCZ XTC 2GB PC3200 :oops: .

That's why I wondered why it doesn't like any voltage above 2.75V??? :???: :roll:

[Bio-Hazard]

I think the 1 gig kits (2x512) had have BH5 IC's. The 2 gig (2x 1024) have something totally different. From what I've been reading, most use Micron and a few other less known IC's and most don't like high voltages. But the new ones (micron 5B F) seem to really get off on high voltages.