are you serious? So no other place can get them?
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are you serious? So no other place can get them?
The entire first production run was shipped out , we will do 2 more runs this year , both of which frys ( which is a huge customer) has asked for in entirety
So there maybe some shortages in ourside of the US , unless we can manage a new production run this year
The production manager seems to think we wont be able to fit it in
OMG. Ryan, you aren't serious are you? I have no Frys up here! I want my VX! RAWR!!!!!!
*goes on a rampage killing all small children and women in his path*
wow this is crazy. Damn those big bugdet stores.
I know this is hard to judge but how do you think these will run in a NF4 board? I don't know much about them and know no one who has one so was curious. I was thinking of skipping the NF3 and going straight to NF4 and am wanting to grab this ram while I still can or I may be SOL. Is the NF4 much difference when compared to NF3?
Wow... that's seriously depressing.... don't let Frys take over the entire line.. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanpgroovy
Guess I'll be hitting Ebay for BH5 instead :mad:
Well the are some in canada now .
The Nforce 4 boards I have seen are to early in development to tell to be honest
hmmm I was afraid of that.... im wondering if I should take a risk and go NF4 or not.
Yeah, but I don't have cash for another 2 weeks.... oh well. BH5 comes first I guess, then the VX when it's available in 2005.
Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
Set vddr in bios to default, not auto, then boost from there. If it doesn't go high enough, then start upping the bios to where you need it 1 step at a time.
default? you mean 2.6v??Quote:
Originally Posted by xgman
he means auto I think
That will work (2.6)
Congrats :toast: to all OCZ employees on the success of VX!
Show's how well your marketing is when the rest of the years production is sold before anyone (or a VERY select few) has even received their modules!
Good work, you've put a massive emphasis on providing great products for the enthusiasts and it's definately paying off.
i think the whole fry's move is not a good idea. they are going to sell these to people that dont realize that they need alot of vdimm! and there will be many returns! many RMA's. which is what set back BH-5 right?
plus the employees at FRY's dont know jack useually:(
I agree with the Frys thing. From a business standpoint, good move. From a consumer standpoint, not so great.
Still, much love for VX and OCZ <3
I'll buy it when it comes around to Canada in 2005 ;)
I agree about frys , I told the sale manager it was a bad idea , we will see what happens
selling VX to fry's would be the equivalent to giving a child a loaded gun.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
Hi Ryan and all OCZ crew! well first off congrats on the product!!!! I hope it brings you many runs :p
second: any idea when we'll be getting them in europe again? a LOT of shops either don't have it yet or they can order it but don't know when it comes in :s
BTW after Xmas and newyearseve I assure you I will own a GIG of that memory :D
(+DDR booster of course)
:banana:
Only fry's! Man I hope my friends, friend, has access to a frys store, so that she can bring me over a pair, around Dec 22nd...
Otherwise its PDP XBL from Newegg all the way!...
this is joke, right ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanpgroovy
:brick: :brick: :brick: Europe is left on its own again. Unless some crazy (and philantropic) guys get some half dozen of sets, keep the highest clocking one and sell the others...
I guess, time to start looking for some high clocking second-hand BH-5 again. Just to be sure.
Still you, OCZ guys, manage to do everything you start on the highest level! :toast:
See anyone laughing?
well since i am such a dedicated and careing person , i would be happy to get someone these sticks from fry's if they arent able to!
I'd take you up on that if I had more than $30. You take monthly payments? :p:
Any chance of excaliberpc.com getting more stock? The "Instock: Yes" was staring at me for over 12 hours and I didn't order! Arrrgggghhhh....
this time you really screwed us OCZ...no offense tho....
here you go as promised they do 260 @ 2-2-2-x :toast: stable. imma go higher just need some time.
How much would they be at Fry's? (don't tell me to go and check personally since I'm on the other side of the Atlantic ;) )
Acidbaby, how much headroom left on Vdimm?
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Originally Posted by aCidbAbY
260 * 9.5 = 247 :stick:
?????......Quote:
Originally Posted by TEDY
You are using a 9.5 multiplier, meaning you ram isnt really running at 260, rather 247.
Yeah, never use .5 multi. just find the ram's max, then max your htt past 300+ and use divider if you can't run cpu at 2.6ghz.
Has anyone gotten any bad sticks that won't do more than 260+?
260 @ 2-2-2 1T is hardly what I would consider "bad"
I said, has anyone gotten bad sticks that *WON'T* do 260+ higher. I said this because the BH sticks can do 250 without a hitch. I was looking to see if these sticks could do more than that meaning 260+ is my aim and goal. I was wondering if anyone obtained any sticks that could NOT do 260+ but infact lower. Who said 260 was bad?
Ah, I misinterpreted you. I assume you meant that a stick that "won't do more than 260+" is "bad".
My bad.
yes exactly. =)
It's ok probably did a quick read. Sorry for my being 'cantankerous'.
rofl sorry guys :D BRB with another shot.
don't despair, there will be people to willing to do dirty work for you of going to fry's and get it for you as well as some used sticks down the line as usual. :) Actually this makes getting good memory easier now :PQuote:
Originally Posted by cuddles
true but not everyone has acces to the trade forum!
(just a bit more :p: )
Trade forum? /me looks
I mean 2.5 2.6 whatever as long as it is on the low side. With auto, you are never quite 100% sure of where you are starting from.Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
Quote:
Originally Posted by jinu117
yes, but Fry's is famous for people continuously taking back less than stellar overclocking hardware and then reselling it again.
i was gone for a day and this thread grew like 5-7 pages...:D
now i never gonna get VX....really nice.
Why would you get it?
Even if it's only at Frys, he said that's only until the end of the year. Not that far away really. I do agree that it's lame, but it isn't any reason to not buy the VX when it is available, the stuff is golden.
I'm pretty sure he meant that he won't be able to acquire these modules from online retailers because Fry's just purchased OCZ's entire stock.
the end of the year is in a month...
You know, I bet he did. :brick:Quote:
Originally Posted by conrad.maranan
Guys don't fret. We've been making this ram for only a week so it will take time to fill the market. Just think...the time you wait may also see the prices drop which is good for everyone :)
price drops is good.. how about improved yields with better performance? A possibility or will the next 3-4 batches all perform the same?
yep online...got friend in south carolina-usa who purchases me stuff online...doubt he has any fry's store in 15-20 miles radius around :(
steve why your location is tallin ?
gimme her email please :D
Yeilds may get better, but I have no data on that kinda stuff. My location is Tallinn because that is where I live :)
not playing well with my AV8 and winnie...
265x9 fail P95
260x9 fail P95
255x9 fail P95
250x9 fail P95
1:1
222,10,12,16 @ 3.4V
booster in 1 or 2, mem in 3&4 (still need to test B=4 M=1&2)
would love to try higher V but mobo (MBM too) wont read >3.5...(ill be trying 3.6 on booster soon)
but remember this is a mobo that wont get BH-5 over 225 @ any V or timings
PS this wont be a very productive night but ill see what i can do...just wanted to put out the "first trys..."
Joe , Do you have another board ?
well I guess if you could only get 225 with BH-5 its not bad
Also please try 2.5-2-2 @ 3-2-2
Wow alot has happened while ive been asleep... Good to see more benchies coming through..
Acidbaby, waiting on your new overclock without .5 multi
As for me VX, its cleared customs at LAX and should be departing shortly.. ETA Monday ... Sunday(US)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Camel
Drop the multi another notch and try again mate. I suspect it's the mem controller needing voltage. Dropping the overall clock should have the same affect. I can't prime at 230x10 with ram at 230, but can if I drop the multi. I think everything with these winchesters comes down to this controller. If you're on water and can stick silly volts through the chip, cant see why you shouldnt be able to do well.
I bet it passes memtest doesnt it?
HTH
Oli
Can someone clarify trans am's question about bios vdimm setting when using booster...
ie. default 2.6v or auto?
either one will work
cool thanks.. I have always set the vdimm to the highest supported by the mobo then increased the booster... so wasnt it working correctly then?Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanpgroovy
wow i may be able to oc this further then
Noticed that Acid baby is using 2 sticks of 512 at once in that DFI board ..
I am having mixed results with the VX so far. I can't boot into windows at anything over 240x10 2-2-2-7 1T. tried volts from 2.9-3.5 my cpu is very capable of 2.6 and I can run my el4200 plat dual channel at 2.5-3-3-7 1t 280*9 3vdimm. However, I can use clockgen and agp/pci is locked. I can increase up to 260*10 and my best superpi was 32s 1m run. But when I tried to take screenie, I opened paint and system froze. Now I need ocz help. what is the best options right now? i've tried tras of 6, 7, and 10. Does tras 10 stress more than 6? I thought it did. see my sig for my testbed. Even trans am gets stuck sometimes. lol
I would try 2-2-2-10 , then 2.5-2-2-10 some people had luck lowering the Cas to 2.5 or 3
also I would work them up slowly , Thats the same thing I have seen twice now , went up to 240 to begin with and then after a while they could go up further.
I would stick with 3.3 volts for the time being and play around there
sounds good. Oh, I forgot to mention I was memtesting memtest86 ver.3.3 test 5 and had ram set to 250 and 260 2-2-2 3.3v and passed 1st loop, immediatley after beginning loop 2 the program freezes and had to hold reset button. This is odd since I would expect to see errors instead of just freeze during tests. ANyway, I'll try setting to cas 2.5 and trying agin.
burn in for Gold VX helps http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...554#post618554Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanpgroovy
i'm doing my burn in on P4 first hehe
Yeh burning in the ram makes a real differenceQuote:
Originally Posted by ryanpgroovy
Do you reccommend burning the ram in @ stock or at a reasonably high oc'ed level like 250mhz 2-2-2-10 for VX?
Follow his link ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Orker
Quote:
Originally Posted by Orker
i just burned inb for 4.5hrs and having the same results as trans_am :confused:
no matter what i do i cant even get 250 mhz!
Uh oh :(
Slightly depressing... maybe something else is causing the issue. Did you try 2.5-2-2-10?
When using the booster we usually just set the DDR Voltage to default and tweak from there. I does not affect performance if for some reason you would like to set the DDRv to 2.8 or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Orker
Does this help?
What voltage are you running?Quote:
Originally Posted by aCidbAbY
yes depressing that is... SC or DC?Quote:
Originally Posted by aCidbAbY
yeh thanks, thats exactly what i wanted to know :)Quote:
Originally Posted by andyOCZ
i tried all the way up to 3.5vidimm, then maxxed out @ 3.57vdimm
and if you look at the pic it is test 5!
trans am, are you testing this on your MSI or DFI board??... acidbaby is using DFI.. maybe it doesnt like DFI boards
Ive seen a couple of ppl with msi k8n neo2 plat and 260 2-2-2-10 3.5v
he has the MSI board 939
yeh thats what im thinking but he also has the DFI NF3Quote:
Originally Posted by aCidbAbY
If you look at my post I edited that part out about test 5. I was confused cause TA said test 2 locked.Quote:
Originally Posted by aCidbAbY
Try burning the RAM in at lower volts. Then see what you get.
The biggest factor is the CPU when it comes to memory (well, volts too :)). Some A64's are dogs. My Winnie 3500+ 939 won't do 250fsb at 3-4-3-10 with my good TCCD with any voltage. What a waste of money! My VX is on the way I hope.
well my BH-5 did some amazing OC's with this board so i would expect for this to not be the problem.
here it is at 3-3-3-8 @ 270mhz :(
using drive strength level 1 or 2 and chipset 1.8v ? try itQuote:
Originally Posted by aCidbAbY
Ouch, something else must be wrong. Even my crap ram can go past 280 at 3-3-3, that doesn't make sense.
OK, i'm using the msi neo2 and I was looping test5 like 40 times at 240 2-2-2-10 and mo errors. I raised it to 245 and completes 1 test and freezes memtest again wtf? So what is the best way to burn in this memory? I mean no matter what, everytime I increase the htt, memtest just freeazes after 1st pass instead of just getting errors. THis is really frusterating. my plan is to loop memtest all night at 240 2-2-2-10 3.3v and see if it helps anything. any other suggestions will be appreciated. I also tried cas 2.5 and 3 but didn't help achieve anything higher.
(quote)
If you look at my post I edited that part out about test 5. I was confused cause TA said test 2 locked.
Try burning the RAM in at lower volts. Then see what you get.
no, test 2 didn't lock, it was pass2 of test 5 that locked.
THis is terrible news :(Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
How does OCZ recommend burning in this ram? thx
Quote:
Originally Posted by Orker
My DFI NF3 board with my Newcastle 3200+ CG stepping did 250 mhz. LDT 3x. 250x10 right out of the box. 2-2-2-10. All I set was CPC enabled, 2-2-2-10. I didn't even change any other settings and it doing ok so far. Did some preliminary loops of test 5 and 8 in memtest. Ran S&M memory test fine. Did some sandra. No screenies yet. Will let it test overnight. But, everything is good so far. I am happy.
Running at 3.5v with my ocz powerstream btw.
using memtest86+ v1.40 http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=6 ? v1.40 changed some of the test patterns and added some new stuff but test #5 is still the intensive one
Awesome news dudeQuote:
Originally Posted by starblazer
I wonder how conrad.maranan is going??? he has an MSI K8N Neo2 Plat
He must still be formatting, installing windows etc
The guys having troubles on DFI... are you using CH or NC CPUs?
tried lowering drive strength no bueno :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by eva2000
i have a newcastle CG 3000+ does 2.5 no prob on stock heatsink.
Okay. I'll save the screenshots for the The Official OCZ VX Thread - and I'm not posting anything until I hit the magic number of 270MHz.
I installed the modules at around 5:30pm, immediately after I formatted my drive and re-installed WinXP. Here's a breakdown of what I've accomplished since then:
Memtest (Test #5) | 20 Loops | 200MHz @ 2-2-2-10 | 2.85VDIMM
Boot into Windows and Run Super Pi 2M
Memtest (Test #5) | 20 Loops | 210MHz @ 2-2-2-10 | 3.00VDIMM
Boot into Windows and Run Super Pi 2M
Memtest (Test #5) | 20 Loops | 225MHz @ 2-2-2-10 | 3.10VDIMM
Boot into Windows and Run Super Pi 2M
Memtest (Test #5) | 20 Loops | 235MHz @ 2-2-2-10 | 3.20VDIMM
Boot into Windows and Run Super Pi 2M
Memtest (Test #5) | 20 Loops | 245MHz @ 2-2-2-10 | 3.30VDIMM
Boot into Windows and Run Super Pi 2M
Current status:
Memtest (All Tests) | Now Looping | 250MHz @ 2-2-2-10 | 3.40VDIMM
I don't think I have to keep upping the voltage. I'm just trying to conduct my own "burn-in" experiment, so I'm just doing whatever I feel is going to work. I've got a 12-pack of Heineken + a pack of Marlboro Ultra Lights in front of me and the day off tomorrow. I'm just going to sit here and loop Memtest at 250MHz for another hour or two, and then gradually bump it up. When I say gradually, I mean 1MHz at a time and then repeating the whole Memtest shindig again.
I have a good/strange/happy feeling that I have a lucky set. :D I'll be taking baby steps tonight and tomorrow.
Wish me luck! I wish you all the same.
:toast:
good luck bro hope you get some better results than I :toast:
Good luck man, it's looking extremely nice so far, here's hoping you hit 270! :toast:
sorry aint going to happen tonight but im "free" tomorrow night so it will...Quote:
Originally Posted by ryanpgroovy
only other (running) comp in the house is a NF7-s with an 1800 (the oc champ b4 the 2600M's) but the VTT dont track for high Vdimm...
odd theing is, ive gottn TCCD to 285x9 dual, 1:1, 3,4,4,11,12,16 @3.2V to P95 for 15min this only lasted 3...ill be trying "looser" timings.
@ ryanpgroovy/OCZ guys: shoot me a PM with settings you want me to try out tomorrow night
LOL if this dont work out, ill be trying the 4400 EL Gold L.E. 2.5,4,4,8's that are "sitting on the bench" for now...ill find the best ram for this silly AV8 if it kills me (and my bank account)
GOOD LUCK to all VXers!!
PS @ ol!ver, dont have an "a:" (no memtest) is there another way? ya, im on water, can push 1.7V without going too high on temps.
Try different slots too.
My BH-6 and CH-5 like 1+2 on my LP-UT.
VX liked 1+3 better.
Acidbaby , dont give up yet , I posted some tips for you in the other thread 247 2-2-2 is a great starting point , I mean seriously nothing else in production now will do that .
Also , your running 2x512 on that board which makes the 247 especialy amazing , my benches on the dfi were all using 1 512.
instead of jumping to 270, try 2.5-2-2 @ 250 then go up also make sure you have a fan on the ram , also try setting the voltage just to 3.3
These things often need to be tweaked for while to get up to speed
Maybe even setting 250 2-2-2 for a while and running prime will help even though you knwo your getting one error in memtest per loop
My advice: grab some ice cold beer and just let Memtest or Sandra Memory Burn-In do the work for you. Patience is a virtue. I'm hoping it will pay off for me in the end. :cool:
another note , is looser timings outside of CAs dont seem to help with this ram
so I basicaly can boot stable with mine at the same speed 3-3-3 as 3-2-2
LOL 12pk and malborosQuote:
Originally Posted by conrad.maranan
Great news conrad!