OCZ memory any good?

OCZ are great I have been using them for years now, their tech support forum is brilliant, and Lifetime Warranty. I returned Memory sticks once which died after about a year and a half no questions asked, I got fresh ones back in less than two weeks.
 
As for overclocking I never found I could push them to far past what they were rated at, but they always did at least what they said they would and sometimes on a slightly lower voltage or slightly tighter timings. I think the binning they put their chips through is quite tight that way. If you buy 1333 don't expect them to go to 1600, or if you buy 1600 don't expect them to go to 1800 at least not without really loose timings.
 
ColonelCage said:
As for overclocking I never found I could push them to far past what they were rated at, but they always did at least what they said they would and sometimes on a slightly lower voltage or slightly tighter timings. I think the binning they put their chips through is quite tight that way. If you buy 1333 don't expect them to go to 1600, or if you buy 1600 don't expect them to go to 1800 at least not without really loose timings.
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that's not really a nice thing to hear as i really love overclocking and i realized that overclocking from 2.66 to 3.8GHz wouldn't make TOO much difference but putting ram from 1600 to say........1800 or 2000 to 2200 really cuts the deal.

(wPrime 11sec vs 7sec 2000Mhz to 2188MHz ram)
 
The OCZ memory I've bought has always been something that's a little bit overclocked as standard like say the 1600MHz I have now, and the DDR2 Reapers I had before. I've found you simply will get less of an overclock with modules that are faster to begin with, but you're paying the extra money to make sure they're a bit faster to begin with, that make sense?
Also this is exactly what you should check out,
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2792/6
 
thanks for the link provided. as i said, i only overclock ram for FPS which i have always seen an improvement no meter how much i overclock them (even my DDR from 400MHz to 450MHz gave me 10FPS in crysis).
 
AMG said:
OCZ is a great memory brand althrough I fear my set is faulty =(
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I really hope you read my review on the OCZ gold before buying it. I'm now on my third RMA, and OCZ will make you pay for shipping back to the Netherlands when you find your kit is faulty. Out of the 9 sticks i've had (Still 3 with them at the mo), 4 have been faulty. Yes I checked all cards in all slots and messed with the settings etc to try to sort them.
You'll also find the OCZ Gold doesn't pick up the correct timings etc out the box so you will spend some time working them out too if you don't already know.

In the month my OCZ Gold worked, it was good... I run everything at stock and don't expect anything fantastic, just my machine to not BSOD and dump me out of things every few hours.

Maybe go on their forum and have a look around before purchasing.

On a last note, the OCZ warrenty is great and the support is good (Apart from RMA turnaround time and paying for delivery ). The staff are helpful and very knowledgable, it's just a bummer such a huge number of these are faulty.
 
P.S, i've now spend £20 ontop of the price for paying for delivery back to OCZ, and at least 20 hours on the forum, testing my cards and being generally frustrated by it.
 
they are reapers. not golds...I replaced the CPU MOBO and ram cos a powersupply blew up in my system which happened to be OCZ


with that said, were is my set of golds. thats how I landed up with this system...I belive the mobo was fine, although I forgot the socket protector >.< guess what happened
 
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Sorry AMG that first sentence was not aimed at you it was at the OP, but using what happened to you to back up what I meant about OCZ and some of their products.

I am now a computer scientist, facing my University exams in 2 weeks, and without a computer. Great.

Personally, i'd stay a mile away from OCZ memory in future, I hope this helps with OPS decision.

AMG, did you end up paying a fortune to send back the OCZ faulty products?
 
i still have the RAM set, like I said my powersupply unit blew while the system was overclocked, and it was not happy to overclock no more... so it cost me a fortune to put right ethoir way...
 
Not liked either set I have owned ( neither ran their rated timings well) wont be buying in future am going back to corsair Geil or patriot.
 
I have 12GB of the OCZ Gold 1600Mhz (OCZ3G1600LV6GK) memory and i cannot get it to run at it's stated speed of 1600Mhz

There are many, many people with the same problem on the OCZ forums and the general consensus seems to be that the memory is of poor quality and lacked quality control / testing

Quite a few people on the OCZ forum simply returned their RAM and purchased Corsair memory and reportedly had no problems afterwards

So basically, the memory runs fine at 1333Mhz, but myself and many other paid for 1600Mhz RAM and it simply doesn't work

Some links as proof (Google will provide many more!) :-

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?71443-GA-X58A-UD3R-OCZ3G1600LV6GK

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...Z-DDR3-PC3-12800-GOLD-and-MB-Gigabyte-x58-ud5

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...UD3R-amp-OCZ3G1600LV6GK-unreliable-above-1333

to conclude, i would not purchase any memory from OCZ again, i would definitely go with Corsair or Kingston Hyper X
 
is kingston any good? like in my thread I m looking for new RAM for my rampage as my reapers are not behaving
 
Never tried to clock a set, but they seem smart enough. Compatibility is sometimes an issue (but rarely), though this is more common for anything that isn't Corsair or G.Skill in my experience, depending on board of course, though real compatibility issues are a thing of the past now. I've had one RMA experience with them and it was very good. I see them as the most budget gaming brand memory.
 
Hmm, is there anyone who has OCZ RAM that has not had an RMA experience? You say it was very good, i'd prefer not to have that 'experience'.
Either way, in the 8 or so years i've built computers, i've only ever had one hard drive problem (Extremely old Maxtor), and the rest of my problems, about 6 times now have been due to OCZs memory. I've never bought anything else that's been DOA, or faulty. Surely... if it's that easy for other companies to just ship things that actually work... why can't OCZ?
What winds me up a bit more is that for a long time OCZ has been seen as the quality option, aswel as the high performance.
Sorry but,.. Corsair memory actually seems to work, aswel as not having the ridiculous looking gold or platinum heat spreaders.
 
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