OCZ 8500 Low-Voltage Blade

[Erklat]

Nah,1.9v certainly won't do them any harm.They are ice cold at 1.9v compared to my Mushkin PSC based modules i've had.

I believe some of the moderators from OCZ forum state 1,93V the highest safe voltage for them,anything above won't generate
anything but heat.

[Don_Dan]

Yeah, I know Tony stated that and I told the same in one of my first posts in this thread.

For benching a tad over 1.90V is fine, I just meant I don't have any experience with these Blades running at higher volts for a long period of time.

[devil_mcry]

is it possible to use a trfc < 50? with 1.8v and 1200mhz ...

i'm 24/7 with this setting

1200 5 5 5 15 50 pl 7 on p35

i can bench 10070mb/s in read and 50.6 in latency but i seen a little increase from trfc 54 to 50...

[BeepBeep2]

Nah,1.9v certainly won't do them any harm.They are ice cold at 1.9v compared to my Mushkin PSC based modules i've had.

I believe some of the moderators from OCZ forum state 1,93V the highest safe voltage for them,anything above won't generate
anything but heat.

Yeah, I know Tony stated that and I told the same in one of my first posts in this thread.

For benching a tad over 1.90V is fine, I just meant I don't have any experience with these Blades running at higher volts for a long period of time.

Thanks guys...I'm running the Platinum's though, same sticks with the black PCB but they do get a tad warm at 1.80v...which is why I'm wondering if 1.9v 24/7 would do any long term damage...

[Zeta09]

If the Trident LV kits use the same ICs as the blades, which I believe they do....

Yeah I am interested in the LV Blades for a 790FX M2R (had it laying around so I'll just use it instead of spending ~$195 for a newer DDR3 board) like Tony over @ the OCZ Forums (and here???). So......IF Lenny is right how would I know???

GSkill Tridents @ Newegg for $94

Can't find the LV Blades anywhere and Amazon has 1-3 months??? for shipping...too bad I wasn't looking for these last May......

[Gendo]

Has any one tested the LV blades with an Asus Commando?
If yes, does the board boot with the sticks after a clear cmos.
I still love my D9 ballistix but having to fiddle around with valueram and removing the ballistix after every crash or clear is quite annoying.

Theoretically these LV sticks would be the solution to my problem. If nobody has tried it I might just buy them and try for myself

[WaterFlex]

Gendo
I guess you are the first

[Gendo]

Too bad they are very hard to come by here in the Netherlands It would suck to wait for them for a month and then find out they don't do what I need them to do Aaah well, I'll contact some webshops after christmas

[Zeus]

Got 'm from Alternate.nl a couple of months ago, not sure if they still sell them. Pretty sure your board will boot after a cmos reset with those sticks inserted.

[Gendo]

They have them listed but they can't give an eta, as all webshops that have the LV Blades listed

[Zeus]

They have them listed but they can't give an eta, as all webshops that have the LV Blades listed

I remember C de Weerd @ hardwareinfo had a kit for sale some time ago, don't know if he still has them though but it might be worth looking into.

[Erklat]

A few months ago it was a pita to come by with them, and now is even worse I believe.
Try looking on eBay perhaps? I got mine from there back in October.

I think they might even be EOL as it seems. Whenever I saw them in webshop, they were out of stock, some of them state they won't
be getting them anymore.
I guess they had too small yields and given the fact DDR2 is legacy, probably we won't see much of them anytime soon.
Pity cause I think it was the best DDR2 memory. Shame it emerged on the market when DDR2 technology was already in decline

[Gendo]

I don't remember where I read it but last week I read somewhere on these forums about a new shipment of these Blades, so I quickly scanned the webshops for stock and I found a PC8500 kit Well actually according to the spd it's PC8900

But then my good news: they BOOT on Asus Commando after a clear cmos

Testresults coming soon, I need a cpu that doesn't have a 133 or 200 fsb with locked multi

[Erklat]

Don't be expecting anything crazy since they are probably binned tight.

Only the first few batches were awesome with 1260 with low vDIMM, after that they started to bin them.

Expect to hit the next Blade SPD declared frequency, but not much after that.

[BeepBeep2]

Well, here I go:

1150's...at 1.9v (read as 1.95v on BIOS sensor)




They top out at 1165 at 1.8v *shakes head* At 1.9v, (or, err, 1.95?) I can not boot into windows over 1210 at even 5-5-5-18 tRC 30.

[Gendo]

I'm sending mine back to get my money back. I started another OC project and I'm not planning on benching S775 much the next few weeks/months.
Time for 32nm

I already spent the Blade money on Gskill 1600 CL7 Ecos

[vazel]

Has anyone had to raise the voltage on these? It used to run fine at 1.8v at 266-280 bus speed but now 1.8-1.9v get me bsod. I'm having to run them at 2.2v right now since even 2.1v crashed firefox and gave me a 0xc0000005 error in L4D2. I'm 90% sure it's my motherboard at fault it's given me nothing but .

[LennyRhys]

2.2v will certainly fry them if they aren't already dead.

Put everything back to stock, try one stick at a time using memtest (not the DOS version) etc. Last time I had a problem like this it was my PSU, which happened to be the last component I checked

[WaterFlex]

Holy crap! 2,2V will kill this kit!!!
Use Windows MemTest. DL it here.

[vazel]

ddr2 spec says ram has to be able to handle 2.2v without permanent damage.

Put everything back to stock, try one stick at a time using memtest (not the DOS version) etc. Last time I had a problem like this it was my PSU, which happened to be the last component I checked

I'll be sure not to rule out the PSU.

[LennyRhys]

ddr2 spec says ram has to be able to handle 2.2v without permanent damage.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

Your OCZ kit is protected up to a MAX of 1.85v - official OCZ page for LV kits is right here

[tool_462]

ddr2 spec says ram has to be able to handle 2.2v without permanent damage.

These sticks usually don't gain any clockspeed with that much excess voltage anyway. Either way, lower the voltage or hope OCZ will take back cooked sticks

[vazel]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

Your OCZ kit is protected up to a MAX of 1.85v - official OCZ page for LV kits is right here

It's part of the JEDEC spec that 1.8v ddr2 has to run at a max of 2.2v without permanent damage. It doesn't have to run stable it just will not die. I've had ddr2 that doesn't run stable at 2.2v but I was able to lower the voltage again without any permanent damage.

That guy got me thinking it could be my PSU. I'll try my old Antec PSU. There is something in my system responsible for oddities I thought it was the mobo.

[WrigleyVillain]

Got a 4GB kit of the 8500 LV Plats on the way from Amazon. Bought for $98 on Sunday a day before they shot up $10.

[LennyRhys]

It's part of the JEDEC spec that 1.8v ddr2 has to run at a max of 2.2v without permanent damage.

Sounds like a stupid spec to me - all my Micron D9 kits have died below 2.2v, one of them at only 2.15v with active cooling. In any case, these LV modules don't comply with the JEDEC standard because they use low voltage ICs.

@WrigleyVillain, hope you get one of the kits that was made before the binning got tight and you should get nice numbers with it. I used to have the 1150 LVs which would do 1200mhz @ 1.9, unlucky for me I didn't get one of the pre-binned 8500/9200 kits which could do 1200 at stock volts.