Ocz technology gold edition

OCZ Gold has always been considered their more mid-range memory, often not overclocking as well as their Platinum or Titanium ranges. With this in mind, let's see what these little bars of gold are capable of Packaging When it comes to packaging memory, manufacturers like the heatspreaders to do the talking.

OCZ are no different, choosing a tried and tested method that puts their modules on full display. The modules are protected by a hard plastic blister pack style packaging, with a printed card insert at the back sporting the OCZ logo and some basic information about the modules. Printed on the reverse of the card is some excerpts from previous OCZ memory reviews along with information about OCZ's lifetime warranty and technical support details.

Trying to claim warranty on components like motherboards or videocards can be quite a tedious process In fact the typical turn around time for a memory RMA is about one business week. I have RMA'ed quite a few components to many manufacturers and from my experience, dealing with memory is the least painful. Overclocking Results: Memory Timings: 2.

The tightest the memory would accept was 2. Those of you who like to tweak will be happy to hear that I had no problems running the memory with a Command Rate of 1T. There were rumors on the web that the integrated memory controller in the Athlon64 could not handle 1T with 1GB memory modules, now we know that is false.

Overclocking with 2. Increasing the memory voltage to 2. A bit fed up, I loosened the timings to which is default and continued overclocking at that level.

Things went along far smoother, and this time with 2. Unfortunately the memory did not get much higher than that and we hit a maximum speed MHz. The company continued to iterate and experiment with different controllers and firmware, going so far as to exit the DRAM market and acquire flash memory specialist Indilinx just a few months later. Pricing remained a concern as flash memory was an order of magnitude more expensive than traditional spinning media, but the performance gains that were finally materializing started making the juice worth the squeeze.

Once enthusiasts started making the jump, it wasn't long before the rest of the industry followed suit. OCZ released a plethora of SSDs over the next several years, each a bit more reliable and faster than before. We reviewed several of them. Higher-end devices like the RevoDrive further pushed the envelope, and the company even branched out into the enterprise space.

In the end, however, it would all come crashing down. OCZ had its fair share of issues over the years and wasn't always the first choice among shoppers. But the outfit did have a hand in helping to make overclocking more mainstream and certainly pushed solid-state drives in the right direction.