wow.

the figures are so dramatically ahead something just cant be right - what motherboards were the other ram timings on?

then again, if they are right, that is some awesome ram!

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the kinds of chips that these ocz's using -- they have to be sourced from somewhere and I doubt they have exclusive acess.... or is it that only they are crazy enough to produce memory running at 3.6v and still give a lifetime warranty??

the competition should catch on soon and hopefully the price wont be so horrendously expensive :)

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when you mention the price, if the figures given are correct this ram seems to give across the board over 10% of performance increase; thats probably more than say 3500+ to 4000+ if im not mistaken. Im sure the cost of a 3500+ and a pair of this is cheaper than a 4000+ and a pair of other ram. I spose the voltage is a limitation, but if the performances increases are that great I would foresee a lot more enthusiast boards offering Vdimm upto say 3.3V or more.

I still can't really believe the figures though; can Wesley confirm if the other ram was tested on the same DFI board (or is the DFI also contributing to the performance increase?).


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Hey- the price isn't bad- I picked a gig of this up for $315 after cancelling my order for the Corsair 4400C25 @ $345 (All CAN$).

And the performance is right on- google this stuff, especially at Xtremesystems.org, and you will see nothing but 260-270mhz @ 2-2-2-1T



And that's for the PC3200 ;)

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The figures are correct, everyone has become fixated with DDR600+ using TCCD and higher latency, this proves tight latency is the king on A64 by a mile as long as the clock is high enough.

The price is not that expensive, there are 3 versions of this ram. vlaue VX, 3200VX and 4000VX, all of it clocks well with voltage although for the guaranteed highest clocks i would go with the 4000. A note to #3, the value VX is i hear cheaper than twinmos memory, with the launch of 4000VX the 3200 price has dropped also, please remember OCZ are the ONLY company to warrant high voltage here and for peace of mind the extra few $$ you "may" have to spend would be well worth it in my opinion.

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Stunning performance and great review. Nice work Mr Fink :)

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normally, I hate reading memory reviews. Looking at the charts, I don't ever get excited about advances in the stuff, simply because you never see all that much of an improvement on the current king of performance.

However, I must admit I was enjoying the article much more than I have ever have before. I guess when you see 10's of fps better, and there is such a marked improvement in performance over the competition, you can't help but want some of that action. ;)

now, if we can just see that kind of performance for the sub-$100 market ;)

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Wow, the huge performance delta is incredible! Just WOW

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Typo on Page 4 (last sentence):

"That means that while all operations benefit from memory speed increases, operations more dependent on memory write will benefit much more from memory speed boosts than those that are memory write dependent."

Should be

"That means that while all operations benefit from memory speed increases, operations more dependent on memory write will benefit much more from memory speed boosts than those that are memory read dependent."

I'm just wondering, though..... can there possibly be a (real-life, practical) application that writes to memory more than it reads from memory? I mean, what's the point of writing to memory, if the stored values are never accessed? Seems like a pretty inefficient program to me :)

Good article, I agree this is one of the few non-boring RAM reviews I've ever seen :)

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