OCZ Gold RAM. Cool looking, but is it trustworthy?

ADE

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Odd. Diamond is the strongest natural material in the world, and yet it stays perfectly intact even though it heats up fast. Odd, heat forces atoms to vibrate causing friction making the atoms drift apart, and yet even in its hi heat it can stay completely intact...very odd....Its just that it conducts it so good that to me it seems that the atoms that make up the diamond would vibrate causing it to not remain intact, I mean look how much bigger the number is for it compares to even silver!......wait, silver...Oh, that's why Arctic silver 5 is 99.9% silver lol. But hay I'm not a scientist, I could be wrong.
 

jimmymac

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diamonds have extremely strong covalent bonding which prevent the atoms within from moving apart as they heat up and helps its thermal properties
 

bball4life

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Well what ram are you thinking about getting (like which specific kit) and which mobo are you getting or already have. For voltage issues it should just tone down the speeds a bit upon your initial boot at the lower voltage, then just go straight into the bios crank the vdimm up and it should jump up to the stock speeds. Thats what happens with my OCZ gold (its a pc3200 kit 2x512 boots at 2.6 needs 2.8 for its 2-2-2-5 at ddr400). Once I crank up the voltage I have no issues at all and had no issues with both a asus a8n-sli premium and dfi ultra-d upon initial boots with them, and for that matter even in an old p4 rig. But I assume you mean ddr-2 which for that matter, there are some issues but that seems to be with almost all manufacturers most of which have been worked out. I love OCZ ram its great stuff, good quality, performance, warranty, customer service etc.

As for diamonds yes they are amazing at conducting heat, in fact a while back I read an article somewhere about having synthetic diamonds (a much cheaper option compared to natural diamonds) being used in cpu's since they can deal with the heat a lot more effectively than silicon.
 

Geoff

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Odd. Diamond is the strongest natural material in the world, and yet it stays perfectly intact even though it heats up fast. Odd, heat forces atoms to vibrate causing friction making the atoms drift apart, and yet even in its hi heat it can stay completely intact...very odd....Its just that it conducts it so good that to me it seems that the atoms that make up the diamond would vibrate causing it to not remain intact, I mean look how much bigger the number is for it compares to even silver!......wait, silver...Oh, that's why Arctic silver 5 is 99.9% silver lol. But hay I'm not a scientist, I could be wrong.

You're right, your someone who looks up on Wikipedia info on heat and diamonds :p
 

Motoxrdude

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[-0MEGA-];526843 said:
*looks at my cooling 101 thread*

ah, here we go :)

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O yes, lets all go out and get diamond heatsinks, that would be good. When I said best, i was referring to the best element, not a polymorph ;)
[-0MEGA-];526876 said:
That surprised me to, but considering how expensive it is, copper is one of the best for the money.

Copper will be worth more then silver considering how much the price has gone up in the past two years.
 

ADE

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[-0MEGA-];526906 said:
You're right, your someone who looks up on Wikipedia info on heat and diamonds :p

Wiki-what? Is that that one weird place with the letters making a ball? I never go on there. never thought to any way. That was my definition, right or wrong. But imagine if i was a scientist, oh the things I would make.

Edit- I just thought of something, Diamonds may conduct heat, but how well do they disperse heat? You can't just have heat building up without getting rid of the heat right?
 

Geoff

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Wiki-what? Is that that one weird place with the letters making a ball? I never go on there. never thought to any way. That was my definition, right or wrong. But imagine if i was a scientist, oh the things I would make.

Edit- I just thought of something, Diamonds may conduct heat, but how well do they disperse heat? You can't just have heat building up without getting rid of the heat right?

Wikipedia... www.wikipedia.org (encyclopedia)

Anything has to disburse heat through liquid or air, or unless you had a lot of diamond material just sitting around...
 

4W4K3

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Diamond does the best, but think about it. It takes FOREVER to heat up, especially if we are only talking ~60-100C. By the time you got a diamond to heat up and start transferring heat away from your CPU, it would be fried.
 

bball4life

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Diamond does the best, but think about it. It takes FOREVER to heat up, especially if we are only talking ~60-100C. By the time you got a diamond to heat up and start transferring heat away from your CPU, it would be fried.
It doesn't heat up fast because it transfers heat fast, and if your cpu is getting near 60-100C you need to start worrying anyway.
 

Cromewell

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Staff member
see... thats the reason girls like diamonds... not because they're expensive and look extremely pretty.. girls just know more about cooling than you guy's, lol :p XD
Yea...I'm sure that's it. It has nothing to do with knowing how much the guy had to pay to get those diamonds for her...nope nothing at all :p
 

4W4K3

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I got an Aquamarine diamond ring for my GF a few years ago. She wears it everyday :) Beautiful color.

I guess if my laptop ever starts roasting I'll grab her ring and paste it to the CPU. haha
 
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