With the inevitable transition to DDR3 for most of us in due course, OCZ are gearing up early on and have announced their first range of hand-tested DDR3 modules for enthusiasts. These comprise of some "Gold Series" memory kits in PC3-8500 (1066MHz) and PC3-10666 (1333MHz) flavours. they sport OCZ's gold-mirrored XTC (Xtreme Thermal Convection) heatspreaders and are said to be initially available as 1GB and 2GB kits.

For further information you can read the press material here or head straight to the official product page here folks.

"For the past few years, we have highly anticipated DDR3, since it is everything DDR2 should have been from the very beginning," commented Dr. Michael Schuette, VP of Technology Development at OCZ Technology. "Being part of the task group defining the serial presence detect and extended feature set of DDR3 has further increased our commitment to the third generation of double data rate memory and we are ready to break some new performance records."