I have a new review up on some uber-mega-ultra-pimp RAM from OCZ which they have given the humble product name of PC3200 Gold Edition. This RAM is the old BH5 chips back from the dead and boy are they pissed! Plus, they can be had for under $160!

Check it out here.

Thats a good review man, me however. Im stuck with some Generic Samsung ram. Stable but no overclocking over stock.

ya wanna see some really nice FSB? try 2-2-2-2-1T and 3.6vts on that DFI...necro got 280 I belive outta my old Kingston BH-5

Oh man that RAM looks like it's a blast and a half. Great review GK

Great Review GK. I will def be buying some of that for my next rig.

You don't see 10 pimp hats every day. Sounds like some good stuff.

After reading this review i decided, for my uses, 2 gigs running at 3-4-4-8 and no over clocking ability was not my kind of ram. So I ditched my 2 KVR400/1GR's, logged onto Newegg and purchased a pair of these for myself to try in my spanking new DFI LP UT SLI-D.

I'd thought I'd add to this wonderful review that their is a wierd problem with these sticks, lots of people are having trouble getting these things to run at their rated timmings on boards from DFI, MSI, ASUS, Abit among others. I updated the Bios and manually set the settings to 2-2-2-5 in the genie bios, slapped the multiplier around a bit until I hit 1X01 ram and over clocked my FSB to 230, these things were actually running fine at 2-2-2-2 with a 230mhz setting.

I've tested these things sideways trying to push every little bit out of these things while still keeping it around 3.0 volts. All I can say is that these things love voltage, they run cool (although with my settings they are hte major heat producer in my computer right now) and they are some of the speediest pieces of ram I have ever seen.

Quote: Originally Posted by SpikeShot Did you think PR gives the elite gear award away easy?

No not quite, but I'd not really tried real performance ram until now. I have a pair of Hyper X that cost me twice as much easily and had "performance" written all over it, this is that pair of ram's pimp. Kingston and Corsair are nice companies but I'm sticking with OCZ for a while if the stuff they're planning for the next generation is anything as good as this.

Just wanted to say that from what GK said in the review and what Spikeshot said about it on MSN i have decided to get this for my new computer. Right now at newegg there is a 15 dollar mir so it makes it even cheaper.

This ram seems awsome but im not sure if its worth upgrading from my OCZ 1 gig premeir ram with 2.5-3-3-6or 7.... with this new 1 gig ram by OCZ, would it be worth it?

Also is there a difference between buying a dual channel 1GB kit and buying 2 separate 512's of this ram? like with the 512 being 400mhz is the 1GB kit 400mhz on each stick or 200mhz on each stick making it a total of 400mhz?

Quote: Originally Posted by Z-Gen Also is there a difference between buying a dual channel 1GB kit and buying 2 separate 512's of this ram? like with the 512 being 400mhz is the 1GB kit 400mhz on each stick or 200mhz on each stick making it a total of 400mhz?

You will definately improve performance with this memory, it's up to you if it's worth the extra cost.
If you are into Overclocking, you have to know there is NOTHING faster then BH-5 based memory.

They all same run at the same speed of 200FSB, wich is doubled for the memory speed..hence the name DDR400...they don't add up like you are thinking.

PC3200 is another way of rating this same memory, that was derived from maximum theoretical transfer rate rate of 3.2MB/s

You can use 2 sticks of 512, the dual channel kits are not neccesary. I have yet to see them not work..in fact I have 3 types of memory at different rated speeds that all worked fine together in a recent experiment.

The reason they call them "Dual Channel kits" is they hand test them at the rated speeds and voltages to make sure they perform as advertised. If you buy them individually, they may require slightly slower timings or more voltage to run in dual channel, but that is not hard to do if needed.

That being said..I always get the kits because they tend to OC much closer. One stick tested by itself might do 250FSB and the other 255FSB, so I just set them both at the lower number of 250 when run in dual channel.

If you get 1 stick at a time, it's a bit of a crap shoot, you might get one good one that does 250FSB and the other might crap out at 230FSB...wich forces you to run both of them at the lower speed of 230.

Nothing is garaunteed when it comes to Overclocking, but you know for sure that a dual channel kit will perform at rated speeds with no muss or fuss.

It's not like it saves a ton of money to buy em individually, but if you are on a SUPER tight budget, getting one 512 now and one 512 a few months later should work OK.

Well the cost isnt that bad... lol besides i am straped for cash

Quote: Originally Posted by Z-Gen Well the cost isnt that bad... lol besides i am straped for cash

It is so worth it. I am debating buying another gig. They are so awesome. You just missed a deal they had a 15 dollar mail in rebate.

Wow. Sweet review and sweet product: it definitely tops my "to buy" list.