What about the "screen" (lak of a better word for that voltmesuring thingy). Will that be vertical to? Or is it fairly easy to read of the voltage as it is?
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What about the "screen" (lak of a better word for that voltmesuring thingy). Will that be vertical to? Or is it fairly easy to read of the voltage as it is?
A64 version? You mean to address these layout issues bigtoe? Hope you can use this thing on different boards no problem.
Again I have to ask if it can help A64's lives over 3.0v. The molex just power your unit or instead provide some boost? That would keep it alive... I think.
I must not be thinking straight why would this not work on A64 boards?
i dont think it will help A64's live. what is does is exactly the same as a normal vmod. it feeds a higher voltage into the correct pins on one slot, and everything connected to those traces (the rest of the dimm's AND the A64's memory controller).
Is it not compatible with A64 ? , or is it because u can set it to 3.9v and fried the cpu ( if so i set the max to 3.2 )
Unless there is something between the dimms and memory controller that would stop reverse current. Maybe there's diode's or something. I'm speculating here, but hey, it's possible.Quote:
Originally posted by enzoR
i dont think it will help A64's live. what is does is exactly the same as a normal vmod. it feeds a higher voltage into the correct pins on one slot, and everything connected to those traces (the rest of the dimm's AND the A64's memory controller).
Edit: and btw, if this thing costs $40-$50, I'm so making my own. I've started inquiring at places about prototyping boards that would fit into the memory slot.
Yeah@right.sure I really don't think you can solder that for cheaper than 50
$
He could just find the pins that supply voltage and solder right to them. Would be much cheaper (No need for a blank dimm to build on). Finding the blank dimms seems the only difficult (and pricey) part of building your own. Of course it only matters if it turns out to be true that the voltage given by this device is cleaner than the voltage from a vdimm mod. If it isn't they'll just keep doing vdimm mods.Quote:
Originally posted by Crankster
Yeah@right.sure I really don't think you can solder that for cheaper than 50
$
Yes, I know I could just solder right to the pins on the back of the board, but I think the whole stick it into the slot idea is pretty nifty.Quote:
Originally posted by Lithan
He could just find the pins that supply voltage and solder right to them. Would be much cheaper (No need for a blank dimm to build on). Finding the blank dimms seems the only difficult (and pricey) part of building your own. Of course it only matters if it turns out to be true that the voltage given by this device is cleaner than the voltage from a vdimm mod. If it isn't they'll just keep doing vdimm mods.
What, you think I'm going to charge myself $100/hour for soldering? Or do you not believe me how simple this is?Quote:
Yeah@right.sure I really don't think you can solder that for cheaper than 50
$
Maybe it will keep the A64 alive. This thing could be feeding voltage direct to the ram throu the dimm slots and that's it. I think the MC stays out of the "circuit" here, because you are not actualy modding the voltage regulator. The voltage is being fed from another source.Quote:
Originally posted by enzoR
i dont think it will help A64's live. what is does is exactly the same as a normal vmod. it feeds a higher voltage into the correct pins on one slot, and everything connected to those traces (the rest of the dimm's AND the A64's memory controller).
You're feeding it into the motherboard, and in turn the motherboard feeds the extra voltage into the other dimms.Quote:
Originally posted by Malves
Maybe it will keep the A64 alive. This thing could be feeding voltage direct to the ram throu the dimm slots and that's it. I think the MC stays out of the "circuit" here. Because you are not actualy modding the voltage regulator. The voltage is being fed from another source.
Unless there's a one-way voltage line, then this voltage should go everywhere vdimm mod voltages go. Vdimm mod voltage eventually get's where this thing's voltage starts.Quote:
Originally posted by Malves
Maybe it will keep the A64 alive. This thing could be feeding voltage direct to the ram throu the dimm slots and that's it. I think the MC stays out of the "circuit" here. Because you are not actualy modding the voltage regulator. The voltage is being fed from another source.
Does high vdimm kill cpus on motherboards using the 5vline for vdimm? As in, is it possible a high 3.3v line kills chips and not a high vdimm?
So you only require one of these to run more voltage to all dimms installed? I am getting confused....
Or do you need to have one for each stick of ram that is going to be installed??? ie 2dimms = 2 ddr boosters? I wouldnt mind loosing 1 of my dimms but half of my capacity would be gone if you need to pair these up ???
New revision for ddr2? Assuming it reacts to volts in the same memory as ddr?
1. no, u just need one for ALL ram-sticks
2. let DDR2 come and then lets talk about it ;)
DDR2 will be fed with 1.8V....so, we all have to wait, till the first real DDR2-boards has come to the market....then lets see the OC
(ddr2-533mhz isn't good.....is cr*p.....wait to 667 or 800 :))
FYI, I contacted OCZ about the price and availability of the DDR booster. This is the response I got:
"Thank you for contacting OCZ Technology. We will make the first shipment around the first week of July to your favorite online stores. The MSRP for the device is $49.99. You can expect the street price to be less than that."
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Originally posted by trueplaya4ever8
everyone seems to think it will be around $45 area.
I don't know the price OCZ will do for stores, but i do know that the booster will be available here in Portugal for 45€ to 49€ so the retail price in UK or France should be about 40€.Quote:
Originally posted by bigtoe
trueplaya4ever8 your very close to the price ;)
Here in Portugal will be 45€ to 49€ to public, that's for sure.
YEEEIII ! :)
PEANUTS FOR XTREME-BOOOOOOOOST :) :banana:
thank you OCZ for your damn-good products :toast:
I told you guys already my unit is beta or so and the final will be different.We are also addressing the A64 issue also..
You do need to be patient...the modules are coming.
Also guy we do have a patent on this idea...just so you know.
Don't take this as a flame, but patents cover processes, not ideas...
another question..
on a nforce 2 board (abit nfs v1.2) does this also changes the vtt? or we still have to mod that?
if we dont have to do the vtt..maybe i'll buy it :)
thanks a lot..
_zZz_
Did the testers notice alot of burned memory @ 4.2 (being that they dropped it down to 3.9)?
LOL, bigtoe, i was geting that guess from every1 on ocforums, i made an outrageous guess that it would $100. :p:Quote:
Originally posted by bigtoe
trueplaya4ever8 your very close to the price ;)
i dont kno how to solder, so this would be perfect for me, oh ya i am also very interested in the athlon 64 version ;)
AND the idea came right HEREQuote:
Originally posted by Eljefe62
Don't take this as a flame, but patents cover processes, not ideas...
basically OCZ is useing the 5v or 12v line, and added adjustment through voltage regulators. heck i could build the same minus the voltage monitoring for about 15 $. It'd just be a bit uglyer :p:
Don't take this as a flame...its covered ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Eljefe62
Don't take this as a flame, but patents cover processes, not ideas...
Nope thats not where we got the idea...the idea we used came 12months ago or so and has been developed over time.Quote:
Originally posted by enzoR
AND the idea came right HERE
basically OCZ is useing the 5v or 12v line, and added adjustment through voltage regulators. heck i could build the same minus the voltage monitoring for about 15 $. It'd just be a bit uglyer :p:
I told you we have lots of idea's...and many are just developing into product...