Reply 47840 of 48669, by Ozzuneoj
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TrashPanda wrote on 2023-01-31, 01:50:Painting with a board brush is generally a bad idea, sure some of their modules are known to be trash but not all their modules […]
pete8475 wrote on 2023-01-30, 22:05:Tetrium wrote on 2023-01-30, 21:42:Then why advice someone of who you don't know if they also have quite literally hundreds of good DIMMs in their stash to ASAP toss the OCZ modules out without a second thought? Because that advice came across more as if OCZ modules are inherently flawed so badly that throwing all out is the only sane option or something.
Again this is what an OCZ rep says about their modules; "prime 95 generally stresses our memory out too much"
This is my last post on the matter, so I'll just end with it's trash and the people that worked there admit it. Trash goes in the trash bin.
Painting with a board brush is generally a bad idea, sure some of their modules are known to be trash but not all their modules were trash. And of the trash modules 99% of them work just fine with a tiny voltage adjustment or at slightly lower ratings.
I have dozens of OCZ modules in DDR/DDR2 and DDR3 and they all work as expected, now if you were to ask me which modules I have had serious issues with then Kingston would be at the top of that list with Corsair a close second, but again not all of the modules from Kingston and Corsair are garbage. Corsair in particular made some really great modules and at one point had the absolute best DDR2/DDR3 modules on the market.
Perhaps you might want to consider using a smaller brush when defining "Trash"
Just to add my 2 cents... I only recall coming across defective memory three times in the past ~22 years or so. Once was a high density generic 256MB PC-133 stick back when that stuff was really cheap and often garbage. Second one was a stick of Wintec AMPX overclocked DDR2 memory that went bad after it was discontinued. They were a pain to deal with but I got my original purchase price refunded entirely after a while. Also found a bad stick of Patriot DDR3 in a laptop a couple years ago which was a bit surprising.
I had some OCZ DDR-500 Gold memory which was very expensive when new. I kept it around for several years, and one day looked it up and saw that it was worth even more than I spent on it originally... and this was long before the retro-PC craze kicked in 6-7 years ago. I tested that memory out and it still worked fine at it's rated speed\specs so I sold it for what was, in my opinion, a ridiculous price at a time when new PCs were using DDR3. It must have worked fine for the buyer too, because they kept it.
I also had some OCZ DDR2 and it was also totally fine.
I would test OCZ memory now, and if it tested fine I would hang onto it. It's pretty uncommon to find high speed DDR and DDR2 these days.
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.
