High voltage lovin voltmaster, pics , specs , release date

[iboomalot]

i ordered some vx from them, where do you think I should get my 3500+ from? retail or oem?

get a retail box ebay usually has nice cheap prices on boxes.
or
the eggster

[DevilsRejection]

get a retail box ebay usually has nice cheap prices on boxes.
or
the eggster

where you get yours from? i see your hiting 2.67

[iboomalot]

I got mine at a killer price of 467.00 shipping included

I got mine off ebay about 6-7 months ago before the price drops hit.

but AMD will honor the warranty on a BOXED cpu for 3 yrs. Just remember not to throw the box or heatsink away since you have to send those back with the CPU if you want your warranty.

[DevilsRejection]

I got mine at a killer price of 467.00 shipping included

I got mine off ebay about 6-7 months ago before the price drops hit.

but AMD will honor the warranty on a BOXED cpu for 3 yrs. Just remember not to throw the box or heatsink away since you have to send those back with the CPU if you want your warranty.

so im thinking newegg, im just iffy about buying computer hardware on ebay, although it is how i got my x800xtpe, i only did because the seller had like 40 thousand feedback, no exageration.

[iboomalot]

if its a sealed box CPU that means it should be just as good or bad as one you get in a store.

also the boxed versions have a FULL warranty you could send it to AMD if it doesn't work and get a new one.

your call Newegg has them for 295.00 ebay on a good deal might save you 50.00 but not many winchesters avil only 3 right now and only one in a boxed form.

[Darren]

I got a set of these from excalibur last week. My first stick was 100% stable in both prime95 and memtest at 257mhz 5 minutes out of the box. Any higher and i would fail prime and eventually get memtest errors. I could bench it fine and game at 265-267mhz but it wasn't anywhere near stable. Anything above that and things started getting hairy. Though i could make some quick suicide runs at 272mhz. I did a 24 hour burn in with looping test 5 and 8 and seemed to be getting less errors and lasted longer in prime but it still wasn't 100% stable. And i was able to now boot into windows for more suicide runs at 275 and 276mhz but it was highly unstable. I'm sure with some more burn in time and tweaking i could get this stick stable at 260mhz.

But, unfortunately my second stick was defective . It had an odd problem where it would fail prime immediately and error out immediately in memtest. Even at 200mhz it would fail, no matter what the speed/timings/votage it would fail. I could however get into windows with it and have no noticeable problems with it at 265mhz . I didn't run any extensive tests to see how stable windows was however, but it was certainly usable. How could it fail at 200mhz yet still be usable at 265mhz . I tried the stick in all slots and got the same problems. I immediately popped back in the other stick and everything tests fine. I then switched back to my mushkin lvl2 and they test fine. Put the other stick back in and same problems, so i'm 100% sure it was a defective stick.

I contacted OCZ and got an rma set up and the sticks are on their way back. I must say I'm very impressed with their customer service, and they've certainly lived up to the reputation they've gotten from other users posts I've seen in various forums

BTW, the system i used them in was an A64 3700+, DFI LP UT 250GB, and a fortron 530 with adjusted 12v and 3.3v rails. The sticks got between 3.4-3.5 volts while testing and i never bothered using any type of cooling on them. Even at 3.5v 275mhz they were barely warm, same as my mushkins. Anyways, here's hoping to a good pair of sticks on the return.

[DevilsRejection]

if its a sealed box CPU that means it should be just as good or bad as one you get in a store.

also the boxed versions have a FULL warranty you could send it to AMD if it doesn't work and get a new one.

your call Newegg has them for 295.00 ebay on a good deal might save you 50.00 but not many winchesters avil only 3 right now and only one in a boxed form.

well its either newegg or monarch, i dont want to get stuck with something that cant break 2.5 like another memeber on this forum i can't remember his name.

[TEDY]

darren welcome here

[Darren]

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[ocmyface]

well its either newegg or monarch, i dont want to get stuck with something that cant break 2.5 like another memeber on this forum i can't remember his name.

why not ZZF?

[Orker]

MY VX has ARRIVED!!!

Currently sitting on 240 @ 2-2-2-10 3.4v
Want to burn it in at this setting till i push it much further.. Going to prime it and sandra mem burn

Just doubling checking, do i have vdimm on AUTO 1.6, 1.65 or 1.85 in bios? thx

[conrad.maranan]

You can set your BIOS VDIMM to any setting. Just make sure that your Booster is calibrated to read the same BIOS voltage when the knob is turned full counter-clockwise.

Good luck, Orker! I hope to see 260MHz and beyond coming from your end.

[arj]

I am relatively sure MWave ships overseas also , for those who care :-)

I'm afraid they don't - http://www.mwave.com/mwave/helptarget.hmx?#intl

The only place that I know who ships internationally is excaliberpc.com and frozencpu.com. Just paid for my pair of VX, should be getting them by Friday

[Orker]

Thanks conrad 260 2-2-2-10 is my goal... 3.5v for that you think?

Just burning in my ram with memtest86 at the mo

240 2-2-2-10 3.4v

Its been going for an hour now, 3 passes, 0 fails, 0 errors
Going to let that run till tomorrow... How many hours is enough?

[STEvil]

I ran mine for just over 40 hours at 3.77v..... didnt seem to change anything but then again i was running 2x512 on 754... with only 3.3v.

[Orker]

I ran mine for just over 40 hours at 3.77v..... didnt seem to change anything but then again i was running 2x512 on 754... with only 3.3v.

cool thanks.. Im on holidays so it will be interesting to see how long i can hold out with no gaming

[Family man 72]

Has anyone tested these VX-sticks with cas3-2-2-x settings? Do they go higher than cas2-2-2-x settings? I have 2x512MB set of 3700 EB and they run memtest, prime, 3D etc. stable 239 with cas3-2-2-8-1T settings with 3.0V on DFI Lanparty. Might go higher, but my 3200+ won't go higher than 2.63GHz. Me and my friend ordered two 1GB sets of these VX and should arrive on tuesday or wednesday.

[bacon]

got back to find a ticket with a customs charge of £45 b*****ds

teach me for adding a booster into the box, must have been a bigger box or something as the gskill went home free

ah well, gotta collect it after 6pm

hopefully these will be bloody good clockers with that fricking charge on their heads

[cinders]

Well I'm going home in 30 minutes, hopefully there won't be a customs charge on mine when I get back - TOUCH WOOD! (I asked them to mark it GIFT)

Still £45 ain't to bad, you still got the memory for under £200 in total....

got back to find a ticket with a customs charge of £45 b*****ds

teach me for adding a booster into the box, must have been a bigger box or something as the gskill went home free

ah well, gotta collect it after 6pm

hopefully these will be bloody good clockers with that fricking charge on their heads

[bacon]

Well I'm going home in 30 minutes, hopefully there won't be a customs charge on mine when I get back - TOUCH WOOD! (I asked them to mark it GIFT)

Still £45 ain't to bad, you still got the memory for under £200 in total....

well yeh i guess £225inc which is fairly high, but with a booster aint to bad, but £180inc would have been a steal

[ryanpgroovy]

3-2-2 or 2.5-2-2 will definetly show a speed increase on most boards , but it seems everyone is caught up in running 2-2-2 right at the moment

[cuddles]

2-2-2 = Jesus, that's why!

[ryanpgroovy]

2-2-2 = Jesus, that's why!

[aCidbAbY]

Has anyone tested these VX-sticks with cas3-2-2-x settings? Do they go higher than cas2-2-2-x settings? I have 2x512MB set of 3700 EB and they run memtest, prime, 3D etc. stable 239 with cas3-2-2-8-1T settings with 3.0V on DFI Lanparty. Might go higher, but my 3200+ won't go higher than 2.63GHz. Me and my friend ordered two 1GB sets of these VX and should arrive on tuesday or wednesday.

i tried it and it didnt really alow me to clock any higher!

[RocKer]

My VX is coming in sometime this week,the store has alredy ship't it to me,so its not so long enymore to give them VX hell,see what the do at 3.6v .