The perfect piece of kit to impress your geek pals
OCZ KEEPS COMING OUT with weird products that make you scratch your head when you look at them. I sure did when I got the press release linking to this (
http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...gnostic+Device ) the OCZ DDR Booster Voltage Diagnostic Device. All I can say is that my first reaction was that it can't work, so I wrote to OCZ and asked exactly what it is, and roughly how it works.
First, go look at the pics on the link. Notice the 2 molex connectors on the top. It works by taking 2 power cables and applying more voltage to the memory bus, and in doing so, smoothing out the power flow in addition to applying more. So far, so, umm, so unexpected.
The controls are simple, you set the voltage to the max in the BIOS, plug in the OCZDDRBVDD (snappy, eh?), and turn it up more. This one doesn't go to 11, but it will hit 3.9v. There is an LED readout that will show you how much voltage is actually running across your memory bus. Changing it is just a knob twist away.
Now, I don't expect this to ever be a mass market item, it is for the lunatic fringe of OCers that just can't get enough juice out of the stock BIOS settings. The even smaller group of people that this might be useful for is techs who are trying to diagnose memory and power issues. Do you have a way to reliably measure your DIMM voltage levels in realtime?
If you fit into either category, you are a geek. If you are really that geeky, whip a OCZDDRBVDD out at the next lan party, you will impress your friends, I guarantee that.
Source:
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