Water-cooled ready OCZ Flex EX memory defines performance, but could promote corrosion

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Dec 17th 2008 No Comments

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Most Waterblocks contain copper and the present of an aluminum compound in the system would promote galvanic corrosion that’s a no no for water-cooling 101. Apparently OCZ likes the challenge, they have released a new Flex FX memory series featuring the integrated liquid injection system designed with 100% aluminum block.

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Designed to fulfill the needs of most demanding PC enthusiast and gamer, the high density Flex FX memory can deliver extremely high frequencies of up to DDR3-2000 and DDR2-1200 speed. The water cooling ready “flexible” all-aluminum design allows option to run the modules water-cooled, or passively via the array of aluminum fins, and the concurrent use of both to advance heat dissipation.

The new Flex EX series will be available in 4GB (2×2GB) dual channel kit with the following configuration :

OCZ PC2-9600 Flex EX 4GB (2×2GB) 1200MHz CL 6-6-6-18 @ 2.2V

OCZ PC2-6400 Flex EX 4GB (2X2GB) 800MHz CL 4-4-3-15 @ 2.1V

OCZ PC3-12800 Flex EX 4GB (2×2GB) 1600MHz CL 7-6-6-24 @ 1.9V

OCZ PC3-16600 Flex EX 4GB (2×2GB) 2000MHz CL 8-8-8-30 @ 2.0V