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AndyOCZ

Would I do that?

Just putting a bit more focus on our DH m8's here an resubscribing to the thread.

Widkidone

Right now i got mine at 2.5-3-3-5. See my specs below any suggestions?

Judas

Hey guys... got myself a bit of a new rig and a bit of extra cash laying around (lies)

anyways...

ATM, running an x2 4400+ on an Asus A8N-E rev 2.0 board.

Heres what i'm looking for: 2gb kit (or not a kit but each stick 1gb at least)
I'm not looking to puch for overclocking... what i'm looking for is the best speedsi can get at either default, or marginally small overclocking. lowest timing i can manage.. the works.

Lay me out a few of the products you guys would recommend me that would be a reasonably priced. Then hit me with some of the more lushish big(ger) spender products you'd suggest.

OH, btw, any ETA on a modstream version of the 600watt or better OCZ psu ... with the dual rails.. and the SLI support?

AndyOCZ

For a decent price our PC3200 Platinum 2gb kit is rated for 2-3-2 timings and will overclock some with looser timing. 220mhz is about the limit.

For about 30% more (roughly) you can get our PC4000 EB Platinum 2gb kit. It is rated 3-3-2 at 250mhz, should run faster than that and you just might get tighter timings similar to the PC3200 2gb kit above at 200mhz. This is the beats of both worlds an I highly recommend this product.

No word yet on a larger Modstream. The 520w is still tops.

AndyOCZ

For a decent price our PC3200 Platinum 2gb kit is rated for 2-3-2 timings and will overclock some with looser timing. 220mhz is about the limit.

For about 30% more (roughly) you can get our PC4000 EB Platinum 2gb kit. It is rated 3-3-2 at 250mhz, should run faster than that and you just might get tighter timings similar to the PC3200 2gb kit above at 200mhz. This is the beats of both worlds an I highly recommend this product.

No word yet on a larger Modstream. The 520w is still tops.

Thanks for inquiring.

Judas

<~ checking into getting prices on those 2 kits

Judas

you guys got an exact OCZ model/part number on those kits... as i'm told they don't know which they are

RyderOCZ

OCZ5002048EBPE-K - PC4000 EB Platinum 2GB kit 250 at 3-3-2-8

OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K - PC3200 Platinum 2GB kit 200 at 2-3-2-5

Judas

excellent.. thank you

they've got the pc3200 stuff in stock (got it sitting in front of me) think i'll buy it.

Judas

akc problems..

pulled the 2 sticks i had in.. out.. poped in the new ones.. fired up and just froze at the asus post screen.

pulled them out and reseated... and fired it up.... got a garbled messed up screen (worried)

next... pull just one out and fired it up... good stuff... 1gb detected and checked.. auto settings set to 2.5cas and everything else what the stick is rated.. (not fooling around now)

stuck in the other stick again... this time no freeze.. but by the time it gets just about ready to load windows... it restarts..

i can get into windows with 1 stick working... switched them around ... both sticks WORK.. but not at the same time... (atm, working on different combinations)

in the mean time, my windows has fallen appart saying that something about the registry was recovered by log or copy... however, 3rd time doing this has screwed up windows horrible.. trying to get the 2 sticks working.... then will reformat and install...

i'll check back here again shortly on my alt computer

Judas

ok... finally getting i think something working here...

i've got both sticks in and there are in the A2/B2 channels (i'm sure that how the dual channel setup is saposed to be, black for black... blue for blue... mix the 2 and i'm running single correct? )

anywho... since windows gives me errors like crazy.. i'm going to try and format and install windows with the 2 sticks the way they are right now. 2.5 cas atm..

RyderOCZ

Whoa, whoa here Judas.

When switching ram always clear CMOS....You could have SPD info left from the previous ram, etc etc.
Clear the CMOS on the board and see if that improves things.

Ram should be in the blue slots....yes.

Judas

i always clear the cmos no worries there... sorry i forgot to mention the many times i've cleared the cmos..

i've come to one conclusion though after forcing EVERY possible configuration i could muster... either 1 of the sticks is flaky or both are... (1 is diffintely more flaky then the other as running 1gb stick alone seemed way more unstable then the other)..

in any case.... after my windows XP packed it in pretty hard, i tried a few other attempts to run with both single/dual channel mode with the stick while freshinstalling.. but when windows attempted to install.. i was getting errors so i know something was up with them sticks...

i went and tried them in another machine... i only attempted to boot it once.. (NOT LETTING it into windows)... and they would only post.. but ass soon as it tried to boot from cd... it's reboot and loop...

sadly, my first purchase of the OCZ ram ... with my luck.. didn't go so well... a well.. i'll suffer with these 2 sticks of 512mb pc2700 c3 generic stuff for awhile

thanks for your suggestion though.... was looking good at first.

RyderOCZ

Send me an email....link is in Sig, so we can get those replaced.

Thanks

Judas

naw.. don't worry about it.. i've got it sorted out from the place i bought it from...

thanks though

RyderOCZ

Ok

Widkidone

hey RyderOCZ which setting is faster for my ram 2.5-2-2-5 or 2.5-3-3-7? Or is there no major difference.?

RyderOCZ

2.5-2-2-5 is better from a latency and bandwidth standpoint at identical clock speeds.

2.5-2-2-x at 200...vs 2.5-3-3-x at 230....now that would be a grey area

soloz2

I have a question about oca platinum rev 2 memory. I am looking at this kit here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146890

I know that it used to use Samsung TCCD chips, but some people are saying that it doesn't anymore? is there any truth in this or does this memory still use the TCCD chips?

Lowfat

the version 1.0 uses TCC5 and the version 1.1 uses TCCD i do believe. They started using only TCCD again about a month or two ago.

soloz2

I just called OCZ tech support and they said that they are using TCCD chips again.

version 1.0 is TCCD
version 1.1 is TCC5

In June they ran out of TCCD chips so they switched to TCC5 due to avalibility problems with TCCD. Then in August They started using TCCD chips again. So the current ones should be TCCD chips.

RyderOCZ

Hmmm....I see you have this all sorted

Bummer...I thought I was going to get a chance to help.... hahahahaha

soloz2

lol, yeah I actually almost ordered that RAM this afternoon... well actually I did order it but I cancelled the order.

My corsair XMS twinx1024-3200C2PT has been giving me trouble. it wouldn't run at the timings it was supposed to so I RMA'd it, but somehow Corsair screwed up my address so it got delayed in the return shipping and then it got sent ground instead of 3 day... so I was w/o my system for 2 weeks. Then I got the new RAM, it ran like it was supposed to for about 24 hours then my system went kaput.

I was running memtest and it froze. then when i rebooted I was able to get into the bios to double check everything but when I exited my computer would not restart. I cleared cmos and that didn't work so I swapped out every component in my computer (except for mobo) and nothing till I tried my friends' RAM then my computer started. my RAM didn't work in his computer (and when I say didn't work... both systems did the same thing. you hit the power button and the fans spin, the optical drives spin and the hdd light comes on... that's it. no beeps or post)
So I contaced Corsair today and was about ready to send the RAM back... and I figured screw the 2 week deal and ordered some OCZ plat. rev 2 (cause I want TCCD chips) but before i shipped out my Corsair RAM i figured I'd try it once more and it worked. I'm actually at a loss. I'm not sure why it didn't work, but it works now. And it's not just a thing w/ my computer as it didn't work w/ my friends' rig either.

On second thought, I should probably still RMA the corsair... but I don't really have the extra cash for the OCZ RAM either... and I don't want to go any longer w/o my computer. In the last month I've only been able to use it for about a week and a half cause I've been waiting on this RAM.