Hello,
I would like to find out peoples thoughts on OCZ. I am writing this post on behalf of my friend Dave who is about to go mental. . .
Dave, like any good overclocker, spent some time researching the subject of 2GB DDR kits (2x1GB). After a load of reading he decided to purchase a set of OCZ PC4000EB which was shown to perform well with timings of 3-3-2-8 (1t).
Anyway much to his disappointment the 2GB PC4000 EB kit he recieved from overclockers.co.uk threw up 1 ga-zillion errors when running at the timing advertised. On closer inspection of the memory sticks he saw a small label with some timings listed:
OCZ PC4000 EB 3-4-3-8
He returned the memory to overclockers.co.uk as *unwanted* and ordered another set. He was keen to get a set just like what he had been reading about in all the reviews. Sadly when he recieved the second set from overclockers.co.uk they still were wrong? (3-4-3-8).
So whats this all about? is this blatent false advertising or are there two different types of OCZ PC4000 EB?
Part 2: Having wasted a lot of time and money Dave decided to order a 2GB set of OCZ PC4000 Gold series from a competitor. When he recieved them he checked the labels first and everything looked ok so he slapped them into his machine and started running memtest, was looking good for a while, no errors but much to his horror he discovered that what should have been a 2x 1GB sticks were in fact 2x512MB sticks!
The labels on each of them said they were 1GB sticks?
All memory has been returned, and suffice is to say Dave will never ever buy OCZ again.
Why are overclockers.co.uk listing this memory with incorrect timings?
I would like to find out peoples thoughts on OCZ. I am writing this post on behalf of my friend Dave who is about to go mental. . .
Dave, like any good overclocker, spent some time researching the subject of 2GB DDR kits (2x1GB). After a load of reading he decided to purchase a set of OCZ PC4000EB which was shown to perform well with timings of 3-3-2-8 (1t).
Anyway much to his disappointment the 2GB PC4000 EB kit he recieved from overclockers.co.uk threw up 1 ga-zillion errors when running at the timing advertised. On closer inspection of the memory sticks he saw a small label with some timings listed:
OCZ PC4000 EB 3-4-3-8
He returned the memory to overclockers.co.uk as *unwanted* and ordered another set. He was keen to get a set just like what he had been reading about in all the reviews. Sadly when he recieved the second set from overclockers.co.uk they still were wrong? (3-4-3-8).
So whats this all about? is this blatent false advertising or are there two different types of OCZ PC4000 EB?
Part 2: Having wasted a lot of time and money Dave decided to order a 2GB set of OCZ PC4000 Gold series from a competitor. When he recieved them he checked the labels first and everything looked ok so he slapped them into his machine and started running memtest, was looking good for a while, no errors but much to his horror he discovered that what should have been a 2x 1GB sticks were in fact 2x512MB sticks!
The labels on each of them said they were 1GB sticks?
All memory has been returned, and suffice is to say Dave will never ever buy OCZ again.
Why are overclockers.co.uk listing this memory with incorrect timings?
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