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High above the strip at the peak of the Bellagio, OCZ Technology maintained a private suite where they were showing some upcoming products to select visitors. We have a fantastic relationship with OCZ, so we were happy to be one of those select visitors that got to see some unique products that we didn’t see from any other vendor.
One such innovative product is the dual monitor laptop. We laid our peepers on this one-of-a-kind prototype and were laid completely speechless. The DTR’s second screen recesses into an enclosed channel that’s part of the primary display’s bezel.
A wild entry to OCZ's lineup of DIY laptops.
Cooling devices
OCZ Forum Support Manager Eric Ryder also informed us that OCZ was expanding its presence in the cooling market to include water cooling solutions. The Hydroflow CPU block shown below has been tested to deliver performance that’s competitive with DTek or Swiftech’s latest waterblocks by ±1°C.
The OCZ Technology Hydrowflow HFMKI
The Hydroflow HFMKI's base. Slightly machine, but impeccably flat.
Solid State Disks
OCZ continues in its tradition of affordable Solid State Disks with the introduction of the Vertex and Apex SSD models. The Vertex units carry an impressive 64MB of onboard cache which pushes the sustained bandwidth of the drive to 200/160MiBps read/write and should also smooth out drive performance. Their Apex models are considerably more interesting as they feature dual onboard controllers which can split and write simultaneous chunks of incoming data.
The OCZ Technology Vertex SSD.
If you’re wondering why you can’t have the dual controllers and the 64MB cache, never fear: The OCZ Technology Vertex II is coming, and it features both technologies. We saw a pair of Vertex II drives in RAID0 crushing ATTO with 500MiBps+ reads/writes in all but the 2k/4k test. These drives are going to be super badass.
Other bits and bobs
The company is also working on several other technologies that are really very cool:
- An emergency UPS that features a 100% pure sine wave output. It’s also the most inexpensive of its kind.
- A keyboard with a bank of programmable monochrome (green) OLED keys.
- A wireless NIA headband, the prototype of which was being worked on by its creator while we were in the suite.
- A refreshed line of memory modules based on (what we guess are) Elpida chips which have been tested up to 2166MHz.
- A refreshed line of eSATA flash drives.
It was evident that OCZ Technology really cares about delivering a good, compelling product, and that’s why we were more than happy to stop by when they asked us to. Be sure that we’ll be reviewing more of their products in 2009, so stay tuned!
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