Conclusion

I believe this memory is very great fun to play with. They made me forget my BH-5's for a few days. The bandwidth you can obtain with these modules is impressive, even when you stick with OCZ specs and don’t overclock them!

When you do decide to push the envelope the results obtained were awesome, this is one of hell of a memory kit!

OCZ told me they do not send hand picked samples to review sites, and end users might obtain even better results then I saw today. I’ve already seen these sticks running 270Mhz HTT at popular overclocking forums.

There is a catch however to this extreme performance, without the proper gear you won’t be able to experience the full VX potential. If you have an older Athlon XP nForce2 system you should look elsewhere, Athlon 64 users should look into their motherboard manuals and verify their maximum VDIMM setting; to be able to run CL2 2-2-* timings you have to feed these modules ~3.3v, otherwise they won’t play along.

The DFI nForce4 board allows for high VDIMM settings out of the box, but even if your board does not, you can still look into acquiring the OCZ booster for that needed extra.

I haven’t had a chance to test the PC4000 VX in a P4 system, but with Intel pushing their DDR2 boards; it might not be the best future-proof investment if you have Intel gear.

This article was not possible without the help of some great sponsors and friends


Joe and Tony from

Provided: OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 Dual Channel Gold VX

KLavs from

Provided: The Mach II GT

And now the all important verdict of my daughter Emma:

On the scale of: retarded - normal - special - insane – mad

What was her vote?



MAD it is !

Thank you dear

Questions/Comments: forum thread