Anyways, onto what's goin' on.


Well, my OCZ Platinum 3200 1GB (2x512mb) El Rev.2 (man, that's a mouthful) kit died. Well, specifically one of the modules in the kit died so I had to RMA the whole kid.

So, my experience with OCZ Support was 'ok' at best to begin with... but it did get better. This is what happened:

I sent in my RMA of my Platinum 1GB kit and I had to pay for the shipping as per usual for these deals. I don't hear back for about a week and a half, so I call in and talk to the dude on my case.

He says, "Sorry, we don't carry your ram anymore and since it's the top of the line we don't have anything higher. So how do you feel about having the Gold 3200 El GX XTC 1GB kit with a 1GB flash drive for your trouble?"

I was like, sure why not?

So, they send me back the 1GB kit, which I was a bit disappointed in not having the same quality ram as before, but hey at least I got a 1gb flash drive. So, I go to stick it in my computer and guess what? IT DOESN'T FIT!!!! hahaha

They sent me mislabeled DDR2 ram! So, I called them back and let them know. I don't hear back from the guy for a few days so I call again. This time I get a Service Rep Supervisor. THIS DUDE GOT ON IT!

He paid for my shipping, cross shipped, and then gave me 2GB GX XTC GOLD 3200 DDR Ram.... AND I got to keep the 1GB flash drive!!!!!!!

Sooooooooooooooo....

Now I have 3GB of GOLD OCZ Ram and it's awesome! All my games run soooo smooth. And I have to say... I didn't think 3GB would make much of a difference than 2... but it really does. I run Oblivion and it helps sooo much. BF2 runs great and so do a bunch of other games, plus my system is just running a whole lot more smooth.

Sure, it could be because I had some shizzy ram in there, but I gotta say that before all the errors, Oblivion just runs way better with the extra ram. I have full settings maxed out on 1024x768 with my 7900gtx, and AMD 4000san diego.

Anyone else have any experience with high amounts of ram and gaming?

Sorry for writing so much, I just figured I'd tell the whole story.

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How come ended up getting 2GB instead of 1GB ?

Any benchmarks to show the improvement. A bit subjective, don't you think?

yea, i was running 1GB RAM b4, and FEAR can only run in medium settings on my 7600GT...
now i've upgraded to 2GB RAM and it can b set to high, without lag, or can i say, noticable lagness.... cos i seldom play that game, dunno whether it is counted as laggy or not... lazy to test btw

Lucky man.If only I was lucky as him........
Anyway how to use flash drive as RAM?Does it need special kind of RAM?

good customer service there compensate the customers for the troubles they endure

u need window vista ready boast.... but the flash drives dun go fast i think....

I like your thinking, sir.

Did i miss something..?



Major lawl-ness.

Get ready to "boast" up to the sky!!!!

HAHHA so funny

what's funny?

well good for you la TS , anyway...remember this, the more RAM, the better , yeah, even though you got 3GB of RAM, i doubt it you're on Dual Channel, not to mention it's kinda hard in overclocking, you knowla, different chip, different segment , if i were you, i'd sell the 1GB kit

btw, not the whole kid (from you very first post) it the whole kit

wow i hope i get 1 too

3GB still can be running dual channel anyway.
2X1Gb, 2X512MB, dual channel.

I actually dont quite get it
1GB kit dead and sent for RMA, came back DDR2 1GB kit
Then OCZ resend one 2GB DDR kit, should have only 2GB, how to be 3GB ?

But then someone up there mention ready boost, but is it ?

Aren't u happy they gave u bad service? I wudnt mind bad service like that too.

ok my bad about the dual channel thingy, but TS... i don't really understand this part...

you said, you got wrong 1GB kit of DDR2, this kit actually came along with 1GB thumbdrive, you called and they sent out new unit, only this time, 2GB kit (assuming you're on DDR1 - because damaged RAM you sent was PC3200, plus you mentioned it won't fit)... so, how you can install 2 different RAM module?

sure must be ready boost already.....but then again pendrive can have such good effect? and he did mention before that he was on 1gb ram so if he does have 3gb it would definitely make alot of difference

i think the TS has 2 kit of 1gb , each 2 x512mb of OCZ gold so total of 4 x 512mb

then 1 of the 1gb kit (2x512mb) sent for RMA, but come back is 2gb kit (2x1gb)

so now back from RMA, he has 2x512mb and 2 x 1gb kit .......so total 3gb.........

btw if the rams can run at the same timing at ur desired speed not much problem overclocking.........even with different chipset

but seriouly 1gb upgrade to 2 gb a lot of difference, but later not that muhc unless the game is CPU and memory intensive...... i did find my supreme commander to be a bit smoother at massive amount of unit scenario when running on 4gb then 2gb or rams, (but sadly i'm still on winXP, so 3gb is the useful capacity only)

huh winXP cannot use more than 3gb? i thought there is a fix for it?

xp 64bits only fix that problem.............but no point using that now too haha.........

better wait for vista 64bits to stable then only go for it...........

well ram does make difference when loading lot of quality texture

it only show when u r loading a lot of objects like playing full 32 players in CS or massive units built in C&C Generals or 4 vs 4 in DOW wif massive chomp-stomping...

err... i dunno but i think tat u can only use it as paging file(virtual memory)...

not texture but objects... texture loading speed depending more on processing power and driver optimization...

i think there 2G is enough though. but going for 3G if there is some money to spare, hehe..
*just wondering is the 3G are considered overkill for most user or what?

3G is not overkill for system... is overkill for our wallet and bank account... cuz it's not worth it...

so 3gb ram is not worth it now then?? i also think 2gb is just ok

u all talking about performance ram or wat?and is the dual channel performance noticeable compare to single channel?

if no open many program in a time 3gb will be useless 2gb ddr2 ram also is more than enough unless he is open many program and game

i think ppl should open one thing at one moment...is there ppl do work in the same time working?? waa

2 GB is more than enough

for vista , im using 2Gb and nearly 40% - 50% is used...addin anoter 1GB wud make any significant difference?

nope... 2GB is juz rite...

nope... no diff at all... reducing it's latency and increasing it's clock will speed things up...

i just gone beyond the borders. i added another 2 sticks of 1 gig of ram which means my total ram is now 4gb. so if u think u got the extra money 4 extra ram,just go get it when the price is real cheap. i got the extra 2 sticks 4 only rm100 each at that time.now i think the price have shoot up liao.

so fast shoot up liao ?now not around rm95 each stick meh?i still enough using 1gb

The last time I check vienet is selling 1GB at RM84 only XD
anways more than 2GB is an overkill if ur using a 32 bit system. XP cannot fully utilise it (at all) while Vista needs a patch for it to work. And even on 64bit OS the difference is negligable enough.

For me, I think unless you're doing some graphic rendering like CAD work, which then your extra ram will get utilise more.

my shop got do service for factories which do precision CAD moulding works... they don need 2GB of RAM... tat i can guarantee u... and adding RAM won help... they need better proc and better GC... not forgetting their mobo...

hahaha i dunno la...the last i hear b4 i post this was that the price has gone up...mabe now change again...like i said b4 ram price is indeed like playing stock market

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Added on October 20, 2007, 3:17 pmkewl yes it was overkill but not when i play bioshock now i can load each level in less than 5 seconds

This post has been edited by skylinegtr34rule4life: Oct 20 2007, 03:17 PM

lol, mine is 1.5GB and I can load as fast as you can.

i think should be 2gb is enought wat.

me using 3GB (1GB x 2, 512MB x 2) running V I S T A 64bit editon....so far so good when running full loaded ( Stalker at high setting)

atleast 2gb for me..i cant play world in conflict at all using 1gb

This post has been edited by fesick: Oct 20 2007, 08:42 PM

2gb Kit RAM ..

Oh, isit t3chn0m4nc3r bro? Maybe is not CAD but CAM (Computer-Aided Manufacturing) that involve more than 1000 parts need more than 2GB which I found it to be the system requirements for latest Autodesk 2008 version.

Hardware Requirements:
Recommended For part & assembly design
(less than 1,000 parts)
RAM 1+ GB

For large assembly design
(more than 1,000 parts)
RAM 3+ GB

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index...3112&id=8410923

But, maybe you're right that, it is only the requirements but not actually used that much la.

I am using 4GB in Vista 64 too. I must say, there is difference in term of performance as compare to 2GB.

But it will be even better if could grab the 2X2GB Kit lol.

i m using 1gb ram in win xp but using single processor only

dual channel would be better.

single proc??same here but i'm using 3 g...so far so good lor...
no lagging when playing halo2...but maybe just my luck???
i wonder...

well...basically...higher the RAM...the better...