I have been looking for the best memory for the money for the new system I am building to replace my stone age one. I am not a frequent upgrader so I would rather spend an extra $20 than get something which is only have as "good" and have to spend twice as much replacing it.
I have been referred to the anandtech review showing how well the ocz eb stuff performs. However this stuff is mega expensive. It is $300 for 2x 512 of ocz 3500eb and more for the 3700. I may overclock a bit but don't plan on extreme overclocking as I want my system to last. If I get this memory I will probably overclock it just enough to where this memory will start to shine beyond the lower latency, lower speed memory modules tested.
I would like to know from people who have used or tested/reviewed this memory how it worked and how it holds up.
Also what about ocz in general. Will it hold up or is this going to be a finicky formula one race care that runs like greased lightning for a while then breaks down?
I asked a company I wanted to order from (I wanted to give some of my business to some smaller companies not all to new egg as I ended up pretty much doing) why they didn't have the ocz eb and if they could get it and got this reply:
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We have sold the OCZ EB
in the past, but we had major problems with it and had to pull it off
the site. If there are comparable alternatives to these product you
would like to discuss, please feel free to contact me. Thank you for
your time and patience. We appreciate your business.
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He may have been referring to compatibility problems mostly but I don't know. Any users of ocz around that can give me any input on this?
I was leaning towards corsair c2 which is about $254 but the ocz looks much better. The corsair ultra low latency is even more than the ocz I believe. I think spending this much on ram is a crock but memory seems high all around. The cheapest decent looking single 512 dimms I see on new egg are about $80 for mushkin, kingmax, kingston. So that would make them about $160ish a pair. Is spending $140 more for "better" stuff crazy or what? I am building an a64 system where my high end usage will be mostly for gaming (at least at this point)
I have been referred to the anandtech review showing how well the ocz eb stuff performs. However this stuff is mega expensive. It is $300 for 2x 512 of ocz 3500eb and more for the 3700. I may overclock a bit but don't plan on extreme overclocking as I want my system to last. If I get this memory I will probably overclock it just enough to where this memory will start to shine beyond the lower latency, lower speed memory modules tested.
I would like to know from people who have used or tested/reviewed this memory how it worked and how it holds up.
Also what about ocz in general. Will it hold up or is this going to be a finicky formula one race care that runs like greased lightning for a while then breaks down?
I asked a company I wanted to order from (I wanted to give some of my business to some smaller companies not all to new egg as I ended up pretty much doing) why they didn't have the ocz eb and if they could get it and got this reply:
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We have sold the OCZ EB
in the past, but we had major problems with it and had to pull it off
the site. If there are comparable alternatives to these product you
would like to discuss, please feel free to contact me. Thank you for
your time and patience. We appreciate your business.
---------------------------
He may have been referring to compatibility problems mostly but I don't know. Any users of ocz around that can give me any input on this?
I was leaning towards corsair c2 which is about $254 but the ocz looks much better. The corsair ultra low latency is even more than the ocz I believe. I think spending this much on ram is a crock but memory seems high all around. The cheapest decent looking single 512 dimms I see on new egg are about $80 for mushkin, kingmax, kingston. So that would make them about $160ish a pair. Is spending $140 more for "better" stuff crazy or what? I am building an a64 system where my high end usage will be mostly for gaming (at least at this point)
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