Up Close & Personal Continued...

Let's take a closer look and check out some of the nifty details on the OCZ PC-3200 1024MB Gold GX XTC Edition ram modules. First we will close in on the fancy heat spreader. The heat speader design that OCZ is using on the XTC modules is a two layer structure consisting out of a gold framework and a honeycomb grill.

The honeycomb perforated design allows the heat to escape between the IC memory chips, thus enhancing the performance and stability. This inventive design reduces the build up of heat pockets between the ram chips. The heat spreader is attached via a thermal compound to the memory components for efficient heat reduction.

The top of the memory is free which also helps tremendously in getting rid of heat that would building up. All these minor adjustments that OCZ has made towards their Gold heat speader design ends up in an extreme thermal reduction. Since this is one of the main point that decreases the lifetime of IC's we can only conclude that OCZ has done some decent research to come up with this revolutionary design.

Here we can see the gold spreaders gleeming like gold should. I finally captured a shot that really gives off the mirror like finish that is seen above. I cant get enough of this design, in my opinion its one of the best looking sets of ram I have ever seen. Period! Well since we got the skinny on the cosmetics and eye candy this ram has to offer, lets get on with it and see what this stuff is made of.