OCZ platinum or gold?....

[cha0s81]

Hi all, Im on the verge of building my new system and I have a question about the memory choice.

The system is..

Asus P5B-Deluxe
Leadtek 7900GTX
C2D 6600

I dont plan on overclocking (atleast not for a good while) and the computer will be for a mixture of gaming and 3D modeling.

Im tryin to decide between 2GB of OCZ 6400 Gold, or the OCZ 6400 Platinum. The platinum is $35 more... any thoughts?

thanks.

 

[The_Interloper]

I'm not familiar with the specs on the two parts, but if all things are similiar, you would want the part with the lowest latency for obvious reasons.

 

[Jake_Barnes]

Go to Newegg and read the reviews. I've heard from many that OCZ RAM and that board can be problematic - hit or miss, at best. I'd do a little more research before I shelled out good money for sticks that might not work out.

 

[stefx]

Hi all, Im on the verge of building my new system and I have a question about the memory choice.

The system is..

Asus P5B-Deluxe
Leadtek 7900GTX
C2D 6600

I dont plan on overclocking (atleast not for a good while) and the computer will be for a mixture of gaming and 3D modeling.

Im tryin to decide between 2GB of OCZ 6400 Gold, or the OCZ 6400 Platinum. The platinum is $35 more... any thoughts?

thanks.

Download the mobo's manual from Asus's web site. The manual contains a list of approved memory sticks

 

[aequalsb]

Download the mobo's manual from Asus's web site. The manual contains a list of approved memory sticks

Not that's right advice...

got the gold tho. problem free from the start, but there's always exceptions...

 

[phamily]

many people are having voltage issues?

exactly how many is many....i've been through 4 sets of ocz ram, none of them have problems, (i have 3 other comps that use the platinum series)

i know of 6 friends that use plantinum and gold.. none of them have had problems with booting up or OC.

Im not sure if it is pure luck, or problems occur rarely.

i'd go for the gold.

 

[PCAnalyst]

Hi all, Im on the verge of building my new system and I have a question about the memory choice.

The system is..

Asus P5B-Deluxe
Leadtek 7900GTX
C2D 6600

I dont plan on overclocking (atleast not for a good while) and the computer will be for a mixture of gaming and 3D modeling.

Im tryin to decide between 2GB of OCZ 6400 Gold, or the OCZ 6400 Platinum. The platinum is $35 more... any thoughts?

thanks.

If you want the top quality... you should look through the RamList that shows which of the brands that use the Micron D9 chips.

Ramlist of top brands with & without Microns

Look through it and decide from there... If you are not aware... Micron is the name of the top memory chips in the world. Companies such as OCZ will buy from chip makers and install them on thier comanies PCBs and sell them.

I would also recommend the G.Skill PC6400 HZ(the $300 stuff).

 

[cha0s81]

Ok well thanks for the replies

In the end I went with the platinum, the timings I found out are 4-4-4-15.

The asus board booted fine and detected the timings wrong but it still booted.

As much as I would like to have gotten the best ram possible, its not possible here 🙁 there are not a whole lot of brands to choose from and G.skill isnt one of them. The main ones available are OCZ, Corsair, kingston, and generic. Some of the smaller stores sell other brands but I dont trust em.

on another bote, first board was defective and BSOD on xp install. Replacement board also had no issues with the ram.

cheers.