Thursday, March 22nd 2012
Ivy Bridge, G.Skill, and GIGABYTE Make DDR3-3000 MHz Possible
Armed with an Intel Core i7-3770K "Ivy Bridge" processor, a G.Skill-made memory kit, and GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H, proverclocker Sin0822 managed to run a test bench with all four of the motherboard's DDR3 DIMM slots populated, at a DRAM clock speed of 3003 MHz DDR (1501.5 MHz actual). At this clock speed, the test bench was just about stable for its CPU-Z Validation. Sin0822 took advantage of the 29.33 divider for memory, which is exclusive for Ivy Bridge, that Sandy Bridge lacked. The remainder of the clock speed target was met by a gentle bump in the base clock, to 102.37 MHz (from 100 MHz). To achieve a more stable setting in which stress tests can be run, the memory clock had to fall back to 1416 MHz. What makes this feat impressive is the fact that all four DIMM slots were populated.
Source:
Overclock.net Forums
15 Comments on Ivy Bridge, G.Skill, and GIGABYTE Make DDR3-3000 MHz Possible
but i really cant wait to see how this affects realworld stuff.....this is the first thing ive seen from ivy that makes me think an upgrade from p67 may be worth while???
One can only dream...
I'm betting on Ivy we find a wide range of kits performing better than they're rated. Top end ram seems to really be held back by platform limitations.
EDIT: whoops thought it said DDR4
Flo you crack me up :rockout:
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0bRlh5KO0VQ