OCZ 3700 GOLD: Building High-Performance Memory
by Wesley Fink on August 7, 2003 8:34 PM EST- Posted in
- Memory
Post-Laser Performance
The lasering process includes the removal of a small amount of surface from the Samsung chips, and OCZ remarking the chips.
The OCZ remark indicates a performance rating of 4.3ns, which is quite an improvement from the original Samsung rating.
We have already seen the Samsung chips perform well beyond their rated performance and timings, so what effect does the Laser process have on performance and timings? Is the claimed 4.3ns rating after laser treatment justified?
To offer a better comparison to the finished product, we looked at the HIGHEST overclock at SPD timings, the required voltage at OCZ 3700 GOLD rating of 2.5-7-3-3 and DDR466, and the lowest voltage required for SPD 3-8-4-4 rating at DDR466.
| OCZ Lasered Samsung DS Performance Intel 875 Chipset, Dual-Channel, Maximum Overclock |
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| DDR Memory Speed | Memory Timings | Memory Voltage (vDIMM) |
UNBuffered Sandra 2003 Memory Test (MB/Second) |
| 466 | 3-8-4-4 | Minimum SPD voltage 2.5V |
2877 INT 2923 FLT |
| 466 | 2.5-7-3-3 | Minimum GOLD-Spec Voltage 2.65V |
3003 INT 3102 FLT |
| 500 | Maximum SPD 3-8-4-4 |
2.8V | 3064 INT 3158 FLT |
As OCZ claims, the laser process seems to have a significant effect on performance in two areas. First, it allows the memory chips to achieve a higher overclock. In our tests, the maximum overclock went from 476 to DDR500 – just with the laser process. Second, and more important, lasering appears to allow the use of lower voltages at the same memory speeds. In our test at DDR466 and 2.5-7-3-3, the laser process reduced the required memory voltage (vDIMM) for stable performance from 2.8V to 2.65V. This is a significant improvement in specifications.
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Anonymous User - Sunday, August 10, 2003 - link
Spme of You people Deserve to get ripped off by This kind of BS Marketing& Fake memory "Companies" who do nothing
but marketing.
This Thing exists FOR the US market lol.
No other market would ever buy any of it.
Anonymous User - Sunday, August 10, 2003 - link
What a ridiculous post by #45. Are you really that narrow? This isn't some criminal court case, we're talking about how memory performs and if it's worth your while. Sure, OCZ's past is suspect, but all of that happened two YEARS ago. It's well known that OCZ has been overhauled since then. The fact that HUNDREDS of OCZ users that have posting on Internet message boards have raved about how great OCZ's latest modules have been and how quick and pleasant their tech support and customer service are should be all the proof you need about anything related to OCZ products and OCZ support.Who the hell cares about binning, lasering, splitting, or how any of that crap is done. OCZ memory modules work and have worked well for many many months now. That's the fundamental point of this article. If you can't understand that then you just don't know how companies in this industry work, and that's, well, sad.
Anonymous User - Sunday, August 10, 2003 - link
#45 If someone here has a bad ocz product ,or even in the past had one, they can contact ocz to get it taken care of , oczguy@ocztechnology.com and oczguy2@ocztechnology.com they I am sure will be very helpfullAnonymous User - Sunday, August 10, 2003 - link
If AnandTech wants to make this more believable, they should ask OCZ for an invitation to their "factory" where they bin and send chips to their "third party" lasering people, and where they reassemble things on their PCBs. Find out where they get the PCBs, and have them show you the process of assembly. Ask to see the deed to the building, and verify who the owner is.Then find out similar things about these lasering people.
This is the several dozenth incarnation of OCZ, and their history is all too criminal to ignore. Why are they not standing behind their old products with which they defrauded so many people?
If you want to earn a good name, you earn it by doing the right thing.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Anonymous User - Sunday, August 10, 2003 - link
Hey, I hear Communist China has revolutionized the "raising the dead" technology they've been working on so long. I think I'll see if they can raise the grandparents I never met for me. It's only a few hundred thousand dollars each corpse! Just because the same government murdered over 100 million people in the last 54 years doesn't mean anything! This must be true! I want it to be true!Kishkumen - Saturday, August 9, 2003 - link
#11 Apparently you read my post, but don't understand simple senteces very well. Maybe if you read it slower next time you'll realize that when I say "I'm sending it back" I probably mean to say "I'm sending it back". You must have the comprehension of a two year old.Anonymous User - Saturday, August 9, 2003 - link
OCZ gold is returnable , if you bought the wrong products on accident or have any trouble you should email them , oczguy@ocztechnology.com or oczguy2@ocztechnology.com are always helpfull, really nice folksAnonymous User - Saturday, August 9, 2003 - link
hi all,Just a tip for all those like myself who bought an Msi 865PE motherboard. I wanted to get the pc 3700 gold ocz, but ocz reps emailed and told me MSI motherboards don't work well in async mode (>400MHz ram). Please remember to email your ram manufacturer before purchasing because ocz gold is not returnable. Hopefully, MSI will make another BIOS release to work well in async.
Anonymous User - Saturday, August 9, 2003 - link
I heard OCZ had a pact with satan , how else could they make the memory run so fast. :-DAnonymous User - Saturday, August 9, 2003 - link
Think I will be picking up a pair of these, I have been a fan of OCZ memory for some time,