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OCZ Technology

By accident I stumbled into OCZ technology where I met briefly with Joe Chan, Guru3D's personal liaison on review matters. Let's talk about some of their products. Above you can see the new OCZ Tempest cooler. It can work both actively and passively. It's low noise and is based on a quad heat pipe solution. You can opt to remove the fan but it's really silent and when enabled it has colored blue LEDs active for the "ooh" factor.

I seems to be a promising design.

Dang .. my camera was setup improperly here. All new production model DDR1 memory that can handle 1000 MHz with CL 4-5-4 times. Quite lovely !

Also notice the new grated cooling though. It's ... mostly marketing in my opinion. looks coo though. Here we see DDR 2 memory with rather "reasonable" 5-6-6 timings .. yet you can cram it up-towards 1100 MHz.

OCZ will also be releasing new PSUs soon. This is the new EVOStream. 100% modular very silent, Active PFC, Blue LEDs and you can peak this baby up-to 600-700 Watts. I could not find the 12 volts rails ampage info's though.

One of the most exciting products that OCZ is going to launch will be their 350-400 USD costing CRYO-Z. I sincerely hope to see a sample coming to Europe at one point as I'm fascinated by the product. The product is of course a phase-change cooler that can cool down the CPU -30 Degrees C. So an Athlon FX-57 at 3200 MHz stable .. is not an issue :)

The product will be released in the USA only at first to see how well sales are going, it's not cheap at that price-level. But hey .. it serves the overclocking community very well.

Impressive gear from OCZ for sure.