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Ordered New OCZ EB PC4000

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gerbiaNem

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I just order the dual channel kit from atacom for 308 bucks, should be here next week. I'm hoping to get them to 270@3-3-2-8 or even 250 with tigher timings (whatever benches/feels faster). I'll post pics and a review when I get them. What have other people heard?
 
huh, didn't even know they made EB pc4000. I used to have a kit of the EB 3700 and they were great, I'm intersested to see how these are.
 
serbiaNem said:
I just order the dual channel kit from atacom for 308 bucks, should be here next week. I'm hoping to get them to 270@3-3-2-8 or even 250 with tigher timings (whatever benches/feels faster). I'll post pics and a review when I get them. What have other people heard?
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This is straight from an OCZ rep, so who knows if he got "hand picked" modules.
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He was able to reach 282MHz with 3-3-2-6 timings, damn good timings at that speed.
 
robberbaron said:
Yeah, the 4000 EB is a 1gig stick, with most likely Micron 5B D.
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nope, almost positive it's not samsung UCCC ;)

good to see you made a decision serbia. it's always fun to go the route less traveled. i'll be keeping an eye out for how you do with these sticks :cool:


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Roliath said:
This is straight from an OCZ rep, so who knows if he got "hand picked" modules.
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He was able to reach 282MHz with 3-3-2-6 timings, damn good timings at that speed.
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I have this kit and mine will run 280 3-3-2-7-1t 2.7v and pass super pi and memtest. I can't however run 3d at that speed. I have to drop mine down to 270 same timings. I have been following the thread at xtreme, and most who have these can run 270-280. I have played some marathon BF2 sessions at 270 without a hiccup. I was running some VX at 255x11 before and tccd at 280x10 and 270x10 is just running so much better. Must be the the having more ram I am sure but it shows losing a ittle bit of an OC is not hurting me in real life.
 
you think they are gonna have rebates for it soon too? like the other ocz ram? or are the prices gonna go down anytime soon? thats kinda pricey for me
 
banGerprawN said:
CE-6 is the word on XS. Slip of the keyboard, mebbe? ;)
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I wast thinking it was very reminiscant of that good overclocking patriot ram I read about. If it is CE-6 that would make my thoughts correct.
 
Yeah, that's what the Patriot LLK was using, now it's hit-and-miss if you try to pick up a couple of sticks of that. You could get BE-6, CE-6 or BE-5 on them now.
 
i remember it being the be-6 that was clocking really well recently, but i could be mistaken. i should look into the differences between infineon's b and c dies
 
the ram is a bit pricey, but word is they are binned very heavily. Atleast that will ensure integrity, and most getting overclocks of 20-30mghz over rated speeds. Would be nice though for some rebates.
 
Funny thing just happened.. my cancelled outpost Patriot RAM order just came in today and outpost charged my cc.... I'm going to check the chip type, if it's the UE-6 I'll keep it and sell my OCZ, if not, off the patriot goes. Maybe I'll run 4gb for fun for a lttle while. :)
 
it's not UE-6.

Anyway test them before you send the OCZ back. OCZ is binning their parts stringently and everyone I know who has these is consistently posting number over 270 with fairly tight timings.
 
I found a buyer for my Patriot ram. I bought them for 207 total after shipping, selling off for 240.
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
i remember it being the be-6 that was clocking really well recently, but i could be mistaken. i should look into the differences between infineon's b and c dies
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The CE-6 seemed to be quite an anomaly (Winbond, anyone? :D) as it's rated for 6 nanoseconds, or 166Mhz, but actually clocks better than the CE- or BE-5 chips, as people have experienced.
 
Been playing around with my new memory and getting to 275 easily with 2.5-3-2-7 timings @ 275 :cool: I'm wondering, what a good way to get 270 ram speed with 2.45 cpu speed using ram dividers. The mobo supports all of the new dividers.

I'm currently running 11x cpu multi with 224fsb and 5:4 ram divider to give me 261 ram speed (god knows how, according to my calculations I should be at 273), when I don't overclock at all and set 4:3, i'm running 250mhz. This goes agains what I know about the memory divider (i think).

Any suggestion would be appreciated. To sum up: I'm happy with the ram, it does what OCZ said it would do and much more.
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
can you do 273x9 1:1?

those are some nice clocks though :cool:
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Haha, I forgot about that one, finally one nice overclocker in my system .. testing, testing... :)

And superpi went down 3 seconds over my el cheap 2x256 =D
 
Haha, running 275 3-3-2-6 timings with a 9 cpu multi and 4xhtt multi = very satisfying. cas 2.5 isn't 100% stable, but there is virtually no performance loss anyway. Superpi at 33.2 seconds :) Now I'm just going to tweak down my other timings as far as possible and see if i can't run 2.75v instead of 2.8
 
serbiaNem said:
Haha, running 275 3-3-2-6 timings with a 9 cpu multi and 4xhtt multi = very satisfying. cas 2.5 isn't 100% stable, but there is virtually no performance loss anyway. Superpi at 33.2 seconds :) Now I'm just going to tweak down my other timings as far as possible and see if i can't run 2.75v instead of 2.8
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why not keep it at 2.8? ocz guarantees it to work @ that V
 
Entropy1982 said:
why not keep it at 2.8? ocz guarantees it to work @ that V
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Because when overclocked it runs hotter, if I can run it cooler I will. I'll try for 2.65v later, but no big deal. I only need it to hit 273mhz to match my cpu overclock, so if memtest is stable, it doesn't matter.

Here's some eyecandy:
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Entropy1982 said:
why not keep it at 2.8? ocz guarantees it to work @ that V
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maybe, but more voltage doesn't always clock better. tccd is a perfect example of this. ;)
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
maybe, but more voltage doesn't always clock better. tccd is a perfect example of this. ;)
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eclipse, crucial should hire you to make ballistix ddr 500000 for them =P
 
Entropy1982 said:
eclipse, crucial should hire you to make ballistix ddr 500000 for them =P
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heh.. well, i feel that crucial could make a 1gb 250mhz 2.5-2-2 part if they wanted to, but it's not worth it anymore with micron's fabs moving over to primarily ddr2 :p
that's a story for another time. for now, know that there is NOTHING that can touch micron's ddr2 chips :cool:
 
I don't have ddr2, but I do have ddr546 running@2.65v 1hr 46 minute memtest stable :) No more touching my ram, I'm happy.
 
wow.. this is very very strange

I ran 3dmark05 and it crashes with 273mhz (voltage makes no difference). Seeing what I can do now..
 
Certainly looks like it... I just set it as 9.5x262 1:1. The way I see it, I gain 30mhz on the cpu and lose 6mhz on the ram.. I can live with that.
 
Well apparently, 1:1 with 9.5 is really 1:1 with 10 divider for memory, netting me a 250 ram speed... I found that 3dmark only crashes when I have two primes running @ 273, narrowed down to memory controller problem. So I've decided to bump myself down to 269 where I don't crash at all, and even bumped my cpu, voltage down. Unless someone knows of a way to run ~265 mhz ram and 2.45 cpu, it looks like 9x269 1:1 is my final speed.
 
I have found that with some of the newer 1gb dimms games crash earlier than other tests. Anandtech had the same thing happen in their latest article. I can run super pi fine up to 283 3-3-2-7 but I need top drop to 273 in order to run 3dmark05 all the way through or play some marathon sessions of BF2. Others need less of a drop from what I have seen, but it must be the mem controllers.

My system runs best at 2.8ghz so 255x11 is better than 10x273. Even with the less ram speed 255x11 wins out in benches and overall game play.
 
likwidkool said:
Others need less of a drop from what I have seen, but it must be the mem controllers.
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yup, i've said it before and i'll say it again, your memory controller is hugely important for 1gb sticks ;)
 
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